Saturday, June 25, 2011

Invisibility - Levity Novelty

Invisibility artwork Invisibility
Levity Novelty

Genre: Entertainment
Price: $0.99
Release Date: April 01, 2011

Give your iPad 2 the stunning illusion of invisibility. Its screen can behave like transparent glass. As you move your iPad, you and your friends will swear you’re seeing through it to a table top or floor underneath, or even into a fanciful virtual world.

"The coolest use for the iPad 2 camera I've seen to date!"
- Steven Levy, Wired Magazine

IMPORTANT NOTES FOR NEW USERS
Following the instructions that appear when you launch the app is NOT OPTIONAL. You can make the instructions and controls reappear by pressing on the main screen. To achieve the amazing Invisibility effect, you must lift one corner of the iPad and rotate it around the opposite corner as shown (or, on a truly flat surface, rotate it flat around its center).

BEGINNERS should lift that corner at least 2 inches, pinching it to be sure the other corners don't graze the table, before rotating the iPad around the fixed opposite corner. That's how to achieve the amazing effects you've seen in videos and articles about Invisibility and at invisibilityapp.com.

MYTHS: Despite appearances, Invisibility does NOT use live video from the rear-facing camera. That camera won't focus that close.

Also, some enthusiastic articles could lead readers to believe they can shove the iPad around in any direction and the illusion will still work. You have to rotate the iPad around its lowest corner. If you don't follow the instructions, it won't work. Take a minute to read them: hold one corner down, lift one corner high, and start the magic.

EYE POPPING ILLUSIONS
Bring your iPad 2 over to any table or floor, launch Invisibility, and take a picture with it. Set it down in the spot you just photographed, pinch, pan and rotate the image until it fits with the background, and tap Rub Away Your Screen.

Gently rub the Home screen. You find you’re wiping it away and revealing the table underneath. Turn the iPad clockwise and – like no app in history – the table top image stays where it was, as if we’re looking through the iPad at the table.

Now lift one corner of the iPad and swing it around. Again, the table top image stays fixed in space – while the moving the iPad just uncovers more of the table!

Tip the corner higher and it looks even more real. You can even see the thin inside edge of the iPad, and a moving shadow – as if there’s a big rectangular hole where the screen used to be.

HOW IT WORKS
Invisibility takes unique advantage of the high tech sensors in the iPad 2 – in particular, the 3D gyroscope and accelerometers. Patent pending Pantomime™ technology tracks how your iPad is moving, and updates the display accordingly to keep the virtual world in one place even as the iPad moves.

INSTANT VIRTUAL WORLDS
Invisibility turned the table photo you took into a seamless, endless environment. It will do that with ANY photo, using reflections. For many textures a perfect way to make an endless world from one photo, magically hiding the seams.

And since any picture you take or image you crop in Invisibility is added to your iPad’s Camera Roll, you can visit that world again or share the amazing imagescapes with friends.

BONUS: PHOTO LANDSCAPES
Photo Landscape lets you explore a bigger virtual world with momentum and friction – the infinite world includes up to 30 photos from of your synced Albums. Photos in the Photo Landscape can be tossed, spun, caught, or made into endless landscapes by pressing them.

COMPATIBILITY HEADS UP: The iPad 2's original iOS 4.3 had an issue with installing apps that require the gyros. If you have a new or never-upgraded iPad, you'll need to upgrade your iOS (currently it's iOS 4.3.3) and then install Invisibility.
Levity Novelty LLC

Source: iTunes Store: MZRssChannel.topgrossingipadapplications.channelTitle.withGenre

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