Afterimage takes the iPad, a new and exciting computational tool and combines it with one of the first autosterescopic viewing techniques to create an interactive unencumbered autostereoscopic display.
We experimented with different ways to attach the lenticular sheet to the ipad and decided that it would be best to make something that snaps on magnetically, like the existing screen protectors. Since the iPad would be moving around a lot we didn’t want to add too much bulkiness. We cut an acrylic frame around the screen that and placed the lenticular sheet on this frame. This way the sheet is held in place in a fairly secure way and the user can comfortable grab the edges and swing it around.
Though the result is fun to play with, though we are not sure what the future directions may be in terms of adding this to a pre-existing process or tool for iPad users.
We also added a record feature that allows to swipe across the bottom of the iPad screen to capture different frames and the “play them back” by tilting the screen back and forth. This seemed to work better than the past/realtime movie, especially when the images were fairly similar.