It’s very impressive how well it works considering there is no gyroscope in this older hardware. Srivastava actually showed me a demo of the game well before the iPhone 4 was announced (and obviously before anyone knew about the gyroscope feature). In it, you move your body around to make your way through a colon and other interesting interiors. Track the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic, browse an interactive map, view fatality rate and recoveries, check affected regions in real-time and. You can see it in action right now in the app Magic 3D Easter Egg Painter, which is currently live in the App Store.Įven cooler is a game Srivastava is working on called Gyromaniac (formerly called “Colonoscapade”). That is, you load up an app and move your body around to manipulate the action happening on the screen.
But what if you’re not going to get an iPhone 4? Well, there’s a developer out there who has built a software engine for the iPhone 3GS or iPad that does the same thing.ĭeveloper Vishal Srivastava (who recently left a job at Microsoft after 5 years there) has built what he calls the “Perspectiverse Engine.” With it, you can use the iPhone 3GS or iPad in the same way the iPhone 4 with the gyroscope works. The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use. Gyroscope syncs with Apple Health to provide health dashboards and coaching features powered by your data Use your Apple Watch and in-app tracking to know everything that is happening. Even though theyre both kind of doing the same thing, theyre very different apps and services. And you can imagine augmented reality apps will love this as well. But Gyroscope is much prettier, and covers a lot more detail, but is also much harder to navigate, and is more difficult to interpret, given that it tends to focus on attractive graphs and visualisations rather than simplified insights like in Exist. Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off a Jenga-like game at the WWDC keynote. With it, developers will be able to build all new kinds of games that take your body’s movement into account. One of the highlighted new features of the upcoming iPhone 4 is the gyroscope.