Amazon has long been rumored to want to launch a range of smartphones to compliment its existing Kindle tablets and the rumors has reappeared with a twist.
The company is now said to be not just working on a range of smartphones, but that at least one of them will come with a 3D display. Rumours that Amazon might be developing a 3D display for its smartphones originally emerged last year, but then went silent.
Using retina-tracking technology, images on the smartphone would seem to float above the screen like a hologram and appear three-dimensional at all angles, unnamed sources told the Wall Street Journal.
Users may be able to navigate through content using just their eyes, two of the people said.
The project to develop smartphones is not an isolated venture though, and could be part of plans to develop a wider eco-system of Amazon branded consumer electronics, all tied in to its own shopping and digital content stores.
Amazon would not be the first company to release a phone offering a 3D display though, as there haven been previous developments in this area.
Japan's DoCoMo developed a system for showing 3D images on a small screen back in 2006, while 3M had a display screen back in 2009 that could offer true auto stereoscopic 3D viewing on mobile phones without the need for special glasses.
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