This Kickstarter project is actually a great idea, if you’ve been eyeing up LG and HTC’s 3D phones enviously. It works by basically adding another camera sensor to the iPhone, via the Sthreeam dongle you attach to the base.
LG’s pinched Layar’s idea and made it 3D, though I suppose Wikitude is partly to blame/thank too. They’re calling it the world’s first 3D AR browser, and while it’ll only be available on LG’s Optimus 3D phone for starters, expect it to roll out onto other 3D handsets later, once…
Samsung’s head of product management in its UK mobile division has gone on record as saying the company has no plans to battle rival LG in the 3D mobile phone sector. There’s no point or demand and it makes phones needlessly thicker. That’s the summary. Here are his actual words: