3DBoard Makes Your SpringBoard Icons Look 3D [Video]

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Posted January 26, 2011 at 5:23pm by Shalom Levytam

3DBoard is an upcoming Cydia tweak that gives your Springboard icons a glasses-free 3D effect.

The tweak is by Apoc269 and will be available in the Cydia Store soon for $4.

Take a look below...

[via Gizmodo]

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JailbreakiTouch - January 28, 2011 at 10:53am

This is fantastic! I think its awesome; I am anxiously awaiting for the release to pay the 4 dollars to try this out! Good job by the looks of it so far! Peace

joshWUa - January 28, 2011 at 10:33am

This crap ain't worth 4 dollars if it's gonna drain battery with it. It's a smart tweak but it's not even worth 99 cents.

JL - January 28, 2011 at 10:19am

You guys act like it's Apple's fault or the Devs' faults you can't easily jailbreak. You should expect Apple to make it difficult. It's their product. You should have learned at 3.1.3 to not upgrade and jailbreak so soon. I'm still on 4.0, stock, out of the box, unlocked, and enjoying better perks at 4.0 than those at 4.1 or 4.2. Don't update so soon. Maybe you'd enjoy your phone more. I'd pay $4 for this.

Lee Hughes - January 27, 2011 at 4:17pm

Now that is some really clever programming. The gyro/compass must detect the angle and rate of rotation of the device and rotates the springboard icons in relation to the tilt/rotate. Impressive! :)

Abdul - January 27, 2011 at 4:23am

Anyone knows hwo to make those gabs between the folders??

Iphonejunky - January 27, 2011 at 10:30pm

It's called iconoclasm in Cydia

Joe Cole - January 27, 2011 at 1:08am

99 cents and not a cent more.

prince - January 26, 2011 at 10:23pm

I am not buying anything else from Cydia when the iPhone can barely be jailbroken these days. Back when I was confident that the next jailbreak was coming I bought a lot of tweaks from Cydia. Not anymore! These guys can't even tell us a date that a jailbreak/unlock is coming, and you want me to buy more for my tethered jailbreak, not unlocked for 5 months phone? I am getting the PlayStation phone.

Macsl21 - January 26, 2011 at 7:09pm

Cool. It reminds me of way back in the old days when we could jailbreak our iPhones and do cool stuff like that. Good times.

Nick - January 26, 2011 at 6:06pm

It looks like he's using the gyroscope or whatever to detect when you are tilting the device, so depending on the angle of the iPhone, it will show you a different portion of the background on that side of the app, thus giving the icon a 3D effect because you are under the illusion you can actually see the background behind the app icon. Sorry if this doesn't make sense, but it makes sense in my head lol. I'm guessing once you see this in person on your own iPhone or someone else's you'll really be able to tell the difference.

Fskhalsa - January 28, 2011 at 3:52pm

I'm gonna throw out the thought that maybe it's head tracking- that's a much better way to do this. On the other hand that's a lot harder to create, and seems unlikely based on the way he was tilting the phone. But with head tracking, you don't need to be moving the phone for the effect, just the slight changes in how you hold your head will make it work.

Aaron Wright - January 26, 2011 at 6:04pm

Thats pretty sweet, but $4? Really? YOu are asking for that to be pirated, and believe me, it will be cracked the same day. YOu are better off at $0.99 if you plan on making any money!

iphonejunky - January 26, 2011 at 6:16pm

yeah i agree i try not to get those tweaks..but if the dev is gonna be ballsy and ask for that much forget it.. i wouldn't pay more then $2 and that seems like a lot for what this tweak does.. oh and sleepfx is bad ass!..but again not for $5..

iphonejunky - January 26, 2011 at 5:47pm

umm if you cant see the difference your either blind or dont have an iphone to understand..further more.. this is a cool tweak but $4 is a little much

MS-666 - January 26, 2011 at 5:47pm

i don't see nothing at all (even with my 3d Glasses) and pitching a video like this for a $4 tweak will not buy anyone's happiness :( do another video with a 3d glasses on ur camera or make a better tweak that will b actually worth $4.

jockep - January 26, 2011 at 5:46pm

It looks like the icons are floating on the screen, if you watch closely there's a shadow below icon moving in a realistic way with the phone.

Elysium - January 26, 2011 at 5:38pm

um... i don't see any difference.

AoS_HJ - January 26, 2011 at 5:28pm

Wow!! I'll be getting that as soon as it comes out. It looks awesome! :-D

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