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Amazon new 3D smartphone, expected June 18, will use modified version of OKAO Vision face sensing, reports TechCrunch.

Face-tracking 3D enables a 3D effect on a normal LCD screen. Four front-facing IR cameras will track the user’s head, and along with Omron’s technology, will adjust the on-screen objects as the user’s perspective changes.

The phone will join Amazon’s lineup of Kindle Fire devices, currently the Kindle Fire HD, HDX, and the Kindle Fire TV. Like those devices, the phone is expected to run the Fire OS, a heavily customized fork of Android.

By contrast, Google’s Project Tango hopes to make mobile devices capable of using depth sensors and high-spec cameras to craft three-dimensional maps, reports Engadget. The Tango team is now developing a seven-inch tablet that’s packed with a lot more power. It isn’t a consumer product yet, but the tablet’s designed to give developers what they need, for about $1000.

Project Tango’s 3D-mapping tablet has a 1080p display and runs a stock version of Android 4.4 KitKat, but uses NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra K1 chip alongside 4GB of RAM and 128GB internal storage. The Tegra K1 mobile processor was introduced at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, and brings Kepler architecture to the mobile platform. The tablet also features USB 3.0, micro-HDMI, Bluetooth LE and LTE.

The Tango has two cameras and a depth sensor on the back. One camera has a 4MP sensor that offer higher light sensitivity (similar to the UltraPixel sensor in HTC’s One), while the other camera tracks motion more broadly with a 170-degree wide-angle fisheye lens.

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