Giving 3D a spin at Demo
[Philip Lelyveld comment: I know the founder of TourWrist]
Is 3D where photography is going? Two companies at the Demo conferencehere today are betting on it.
ArqBall makes a mobile app that creates 3D images, or "spins," of physical objects. Designed for commerce initially, it lets you quickly create a 3D spinning model of an object for sale and embed it in a sales page. ...
Then there's TourWrist, a mobile app that lets you create panoramas of places you visit. The iPad viewing app that was showed was stunning: It makes your iPad a virtual window into the visual bubbles the app creates. And as you walk with the app held up in front of you, you move into the image. ...
But it is cool to see innovation in apps that build a 3D data and photography layer on top of the world. It's been flat for too long. We are seeing good creativity but I'm not sure the killer interface for 3D data has yet arrived. Perhaps Google Glasses will help it along.
See the full story here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57415854-296/giving-3d-a-spin-at-demo/