How 3D works on the Amazon Fire Phone

Amazon’s Fire Phone is watching you. It looks you right in the eyes, and it watches your every movement. It’s cool, though, because it uses this to make things look all 3D and futuristic.

Earlier this week, Amazon finally lit the spark on its Fire Phone and revealed it to the world. It’s a $200 touchscreen device (on contract with AT&T only) that looks a lot like an iPhone and runs Amazon’s version of the Android operating system. One of its defining features is something called “Dynamic Perspective” that is capable of producing a 3D-like image without glasses. This is an idea that we’ve seen before with Nintendo’s 3DS handheld game console, but the execution is different — but this doesn’t mean developers will struggle to implement it.