Nokia’s Dual Display 3D Communicator seen in Patent App
I saw a random tweet this morning about a Nokia 3D communicator and assumed it was spam. 5 hours on a train later and I see a tip in my inbox for the same thing and was somewhat pleasantly surprised. This is like a Nintendo 3DS crossed with a Microsoft Courier (or other dual display devices actually available in market).
Using the camera to track head movement, a 3D image will appear from the 3D display, glasses free. Unlike the 3DS from Nintendo, you don’t need to be at a precise point at which to view in 3D.
3D would handle the depth control automatically. Shadows can even be placed from the second screen.
What’s especially cool is that you can now have hover button. This is what I thought could be the evolution from touch, where you’re no longer even physically touching the screen but handling and manipulating objects in virtual 3D space.
I hope this isn’t another one of those Nokia things where they try to pioneer something and fail and someone else comes along with exactly the same thing, just polished and it flies.
Having said that, what do you think about such 3D interactions? Is this going to be something revolutionary or just a major gimmick? I can see it having its place in gaming. Is this how Nokia’s going to differentiate from tablets and create that “new” device segment? Remember Tero said, “There will be a new form factor”. Fingers crossed it can actually come to life and escape from the R&D labs.
MS Courier
Mix with Nintento 3DS
Cheers Damen for the tip!
Sources: Slashgear / IntoMobile/ Unwired View
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I’d say Nokia is really the main innovator in the mobile space, right from the beginning of the mobile phone and GSM and of course they invented the smartphone, so this is definitely in the spirit of that. Companies like Apple and Google inevitably just take Nokia inventions and polish them up a bit and pass them off as their own inventions, hence all the patent lawsuits quite rightly flying around at the moment.
This is a great development, and Nokia also pioneered the gesture based interface several years ago (in R&D but not actual products). So that may well have come in here.
I think this looks like a great device. I just wish it wasn’t going to have to be run on crappy old Windows Phone which is not up to the job and they’d have to let Microsoft have the tech. Yet another example of the terrible decision of abandoning Symbian and MeeGo.
+1
Agree. I just wish Nokia can get their shit together and turn these revolutionary concepts into actual products. Nokia is notoriously slow to bring concepts to fruition. They can’t even get simple firmware updates out on schedule. There are already tablets with dual screens out today. If Nokia can release this (running Meego), I’m positive it’ll blow these other tablets out of the water.
agreed.but right now they are the slowest in mobile industry. again whatever be the reasons.
Nice find
Here’s to hoping that bad management won’t kill this.
Unfortunately while that’s great there have been hundreds cool patents from Nokia(especially in 2007-2009) for the 6 years i have closely followed them that these days i don’t care about these patent fillings or over hypec spec lists compared to what they really are.
Only the final and actual product is the thing i can get interested from Nokia anymore.
This may be one of the disruptive technologies that Elop has been talking about OR it could be an idea that is never to be released, like the app that allows you to use your N8 yo make any surface a touchscreen……
I hope something comes out of this. I just held my hand in the air above my laptop and made a left swipe jesture and imagined the floating cube. It was nice but it also reminds me of the failed media cube on the Samsung Behold II. The end product needs to be more functional that cool. Coolness wears off after a while.
Hammer pants were cool at one point…..not too functional though….unless you were skydiving….
wow
love that 3d handling
very innovative
meego should be the OS used in it
Wow WP7 panels in 3D!
Take a close look of The Tile Waves Panel found in Sony Ericsson X2, and you will see the origin of WP7′s panels.
this is the kinda stuff that people like me want from nokia
but sadly theyll fuck up somehow
i would buy this phone with win 7/symbian pr3/meego/android
because its unique
heres to hoping that nokia can get the next disruption right(3d +hover touch=magical lol)
btw the 2d screen means both 3d and 2d pictures apps and games works, really amazing idea
If I’m not mistaken I’ve been heard this rumours since very very long time ago about Nokia and 3d something but not sure if it’s the one. I thought it’ll be something for meego but everything is about windblows phone now…:-)
The N810 had a 3D screen without glasses back in 2009. It was tested and demo done.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/02/nokias-3d-n810-internet-tablet-caught-on-blurrycam/
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1532290/nokia-3d-video-walk-nokia-n810-internet-tablet
i never knew this and im not surprised
they dont give enough publicity
if this was apple omg you would never hear he fucking end of it
I think that Nokia engineers got the inspiration to design this concept after watching the movie Ironman, in which Tony Stark used the same kind of technology to design his iron suit.
But after watching over the years how Nokia messed up with the touch screen interface on Symbian by implementing the crappy S60v5 ui on it, I don’t have much hope left.
Also, after surrendering in the mobile os war we now know that Nokia can’t implement this kind of tech on their own software because no one knows what is future of Meego in Nokia’s roadmap and hence they would have to implement this brilliant technology on Microsoft’s feature phone os which we know as Windows Phone 7.
This kind of device would really make Nokia stand out in the crowded tablet space. They just have to properly implement it and release it as fast as possible.
how about get your shit together nokia before you mach up this shit
THIS. IS AWESOME.
uhhh I cant wait