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Yeah, probably could have phrased that better.

They are using completely different approaches. Apple seems to be mostly using the accelerometer, to draw dots and visualize inertia. The Android apps are using the gyroscope, to draw a horizon.



You can't only use the accelerometers. If you do as soon as you tilt the phone it will think you are rapidly accelerating.

Apple will be doing full 6 DoF sensor fusion, and then processing the result in a different way.


Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification.




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