o9Media

The optical illusion genius, David OReilly, is working on his latest project, titled ihologram, which gives the illusion of a 3D hologram jumping off the screen. As OReilly says on his site, “The application works by assuming a constant viewing angle (35-45 degrees), typical for when the device is placed on a tabletop. The 3d scene’s perspective is warped using anamorphosis, the same technique used in Hans Holbein’s painting The Ambassadors. This application does the exact same but updates dynamically.” The software works by using the iPhone’s built in gyroscope to calculate it’s rotation on the y-axis, which gives the controller the ability to look around the environment by turning the device.

Regardless of the full functionality of o9Media right now, today is June 9th - And what does this mean? Yeah, the details of the new iPhone 2 along with the release of the iPhone and iPod Touch firmware 2.0. I’m pissing myself in excitement as Steve Jobs is currently presenting the keynote at WWDC. The new firmware and keynote should come along later today.



Get more info on today’s keynote here
EDIT — It’s here!
EDIT — I seem to have gotten ahead of myself, the new software will be out early July.
Goddamnit.