Every time Google mentions Android 3.0's holographic interface and 3D capabilities, one perhaps imageines Princess Leia's plea to Obi Wan Kenobi played back by R2D2 in "Star Wars." Android 3.0, aka "Honeycomb," is claimed to have a redesigned holographic user interface and 3D. But just what does Google mean by those terms? Will our mobile devices show holograms of two parties in a conversation? And will those holograms be in 3D? Or, like Humpty Dumpty in "Alice in Wonderland," who said words mean what he choose them to mean, is Google redefining the term "3D?"Saturday, February 5, 2011
Honeycomb's Holography: Hope or Hooey?
Every time Google mentions Android 3.0's holographic interface and 3D capabilities, one perhaps imageines Princess Leia's plea to Obi Wan Kenobi played back by R2D2 in "Star Wars." Android 3.0, aka "Honeycomb," is claimed to have a redesigned holographic user interface and 3D. But just what does Google mean by those terms? Will our mobile devices show holograms of two parties in a conversation? And will those holograms be in 3D? Or, like Humpty Dumpty in "Alice in Wonderland," who said words mean what he choose them to mean, is Google redefining the term "3D?"
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