Amazon’s(s amzn) Fire Phone doesn’t come out until later this month, but the company’s already working to make sure there will soon be more than 40 apps optimized for the Amazon’s new 3D(-ish) Dynamic Perspective interface. On Monday, a post appeared on Amazon’s developer blog that outlines the best practices for developing apps for the Fire Phone, and specifically, using Amazon’s Dynamic Perspective SDK.
Although Amazon’s face-tracking, infrared-camera-powered interface has been called a gimmick — despite the phone not yet being commercially available — the company does seem quite serious about using its gestures to get around the Fire OS. Last week, Amazon offered up to $5000 in Amazon Coins for apps that take advantage of the Fire Phone’s unique hardware.
There are two primary gestures that Amazon is introducing: peek and tilt. Both gestures are activated by rotating the phone around its Y-axis, but to different degrees.
A “subtle” rotation around the Y-axis will bring up…
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