14 DAY TRIAL // Softpedia is pleased to deflect attention from all the unfounded rumors surrounding Apple’s unconfirmed iPhone 5 with a pleasant video created by 3D animation experts Aatma Studio with the purpose of keeping things interesting, albeit with none of these features even slightly possible in the next-generation iPhone 5.
Uploaded this week by the aforementioned artists, the video aims to take things to the extreme by pushing the boundaries for what is possible both in terms of design and functionality.
Their reasoning (probably) was: if we’re hearing so many rumors about it, we might as well go all the way and create something truly fantastic that is not only worth reading about, but also seeing in action.
So it was only natural for a studio like Aatma to create the video embedded below, since they have the tools and the talent required to work up something worth clicking on 7,036,124 times (at the time of this writing).
Yes, that’s the number of hits their work got on YouTube and for good reason too.
The surreal footage shows a next-generation iPhone with:
· an ultra thin design (and when they say ultra-thin, the mean it); · a laser keyboard function that projects a virtual keyboard onto any surface, allowing the user to enlarge and minimize its form factor, dim or turn up the brightness, and well as use multi-touch gestures to rotate it for the perfect typing position; · a holographic display function which projects the video playing on the handset’s screen onto… well, thin air.
Needless to point out, at least the third feature listed above is almost impossible to reproduce without using a surface to project light on, be it Steam, or smoke.
The people at Aatma Studio themselves admit that “The computer generated Concept iPhone 5 features is an exponential-leap to the iPhone 4 or iPhone 3gs of today.”
“We hope you enjoy this iPhone 5 video more than the current trend of iPhone 5 rumors such as iPhone 5 leaked and iPhone 5 unboxing videos,” the studio says. “Apple is yet to make the iPhone 5 announcement. So have your fill of this new iPhone video before the iPhone 5 release.”