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amazon is ready to reveal a 3d smartphone I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update in two weeks amazon will reveal a new product and all signs point to a smartphone now Amazon is insane it's a smartphone instead it just released this teaser video of people moving their head reacting to it I don't think I've ever seen anything like that oh my gosh that's crazy that's super awesome I don't know how you guys do it amazon you don't have to play coy with us we know this is your smartphone and we know those people in the video are reacting to some sort of 3d effect on the screen the Amazon smartphone has been rumored for three years and reports say that Amazon was going to release it soon so yeah it's a smartphone now as for those 3d screen tricks it likely has something to do with the eye tracking camera sensors on all four corners here's one leaked picture of a prototype with the sensors on the corners published by BGR it could track the user's face and eyes and change the on-screen image in relation to where you're looking but let's be honest about something here it's going to take more than the 3d trick to sell a phone the smartphone market is so crowded right now that it needs to be competitive on price maybe I tracking could be used for other cool things like scrolling text as your eye travels down a page or pausing a video when you look away or some magical shopping wand scanner thingy whatever the features amazon is going to catch your attention with the 3d but the price will need to seal the deal and all will be revealed on jun 18th in amazon's hometown of Seattle and in other bookstore technology news Barnes & Noble is no longer making nook tablets instead Samsung will make nook spin-offs of galaxy tablets the companies announced a new co-branded tablet with a long name the samsung galaxy tab for nook it'll be like a typical galaxy tablet it'll have a smaller 7-inch screen and customized nuke software from barnes & noble sales have been bad for nook tablets so this is barnes a noble trying something the galaxy tab for nook will be out in August but before that all focus will be on the e3 video game expo in Los Angeles Microsoft will kick things off Monday morning with announcements on the future of the xbox one and upcoming games starting at nine thirty a.m. pacific twelve thirty eastern sony is going to have playstation news later in the day at 6pm pacific 9 p.m. eastern and you can follow the coverage live on cnet that's your tech news update you can always head to cnet.com for more details from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey