IPhone 4 + Gyroscope + Gaming = All Kinds Of Awesome [video]

> Sure, you could sort of do this previously with the compass built in to the iPhone 3GS...

That would be an accelerometer to you or me.

Edit: actually the combination of the two, I suppose.

We were just playing around with this specific app in our office. There were about 5 guys huddled together, spinning around with the person controlling the iPhone. Quite a sight.

Playing with the gyroscope myself, I realized there is actually a very comfortable degree of motion you can make holding the phone for added game input. I don't want to be spinning in circles trying to shoot bad guys, but some extra rotational movement is nice.

Also, for being an early game (maybe the first to adopt the gyroscope?) the spatial input was very intuitive, it took about 3 seconds to orient myself with the device and it was all blam-blam-blam from there.

The gyroscope is definitely the best thing about the iPhone 4. I can't wait to see this hardware show up in other phones.

kewwl!!! seems pretty accurate.