Secret Project: Holograms
After I did Mach Dice, I wanted to do something completely different. I had a kinda neat idea which was sort of like a drawing program. But then my full time job suddenly got much more full time. And then I got involved with the whole Open Feint group and ended up making Boom Dice, which was a simple little dice game but still took a few weeks to do. And then, we ended up going to India for three weeks.
But now, I can finally get back to working on what was going to be project #2: Holograms.
Originally, I wasn’t going to say anything about the project until it was submitted because I didn’t want to risk the chance that someone else would snag the app name. I’ve since found out that you can actually submit meta-data for an application (stuff like the app name, icon, description, etc.) before you’ve actually finished coding it. So now I’ve got the app name “Holograms” reserved. Pretty cool, eh?
April 30th, 2009 at 2:58 am
This sounds very exciting!
Can’t wait to see it.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Heh, me too…
May 7th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
hmmm i think you are too late! there is already hologram app called Ballerina out there… it is pretty cool!
May 7th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Yeah, I saw Ballerina and it looks very nice. But my app is more designed for people to make their own simple holograms so I think it’s a different market.
In any case, Ballerina and my first app, Mach Dice, both rely on the same basic idea of using the accelerometer to create a virtual 3D display. I’m just surprised there aren’t more apps out there that do it as it seems like a pretty obvious application of a handheld device with an accelerometer.
June 27th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
The example source code GLGravity is only a small step away from achieving the 3d effect, i am adapting it to incorporate the compass heading. I still think there is a killer app yet to be released which casually uses this effect.
Cant wait.