Watching the Virtual World Through Your iPhone

Apple opened up the iPhone SDK last month, paving the way for a new wave of developers to trick out the iPhone to their ends. BOXfab wants to use it as a window to the virtual world, creating "A Virtual Reality display device which uses the iPhone as the viewing plate so that it becomes a wearable virtual headset simply by clipping on a special attachment."  The only controls for the head-mounted version, the company wants to create a handheld and desktop version as well, would be through the accelerometer, which means a lot of tilting your head around. BOXfab and the iPhone may not be the ones to bring virtual worlds immersion to our phones--they're looking for other partners to take the idea and run with it--but they at least give us a nice image of what the future of augmented reality could look like. [via Macenstein]