TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

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February 22nd, 2006

The rumored Apple tablet: A bridge between games and books?

By David Rothman

Apple tablet ahead?Here from Macsimum News. Notice the heavy games angle? Could libraries and schools use this device to help make book-readers of games users? Also see Digital Media Thoughts and earlier TelePost. Excerpt from Macsimum News:

According to another embodiment, the techniques described above [in a patent app] may be used in a virtual reality environment. For example, a user holding the tablet can turn around and see the view looking backwards from a position in a two or three dimensional image or object database as if the user walks into a virtual reality game space. According to another embodiment, a user may perform an inspection of an image panorama where the view in different directions is provided by multiple cameras pointing outward in different directions from a single location.

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