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Objet Alaris 30 Desktop 3D Printer creates prototypes on the fly

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Oct 15th 2008 No Comments

3D printers have been around for quite some time, but they’re just now getting streamlined enough to fit in an office space. That’s what makes the Alaris 30 Desktop 3D printer from Objet stand out.

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Fujifilm 3D camera promises 3D HD video by 2009 launch

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 9th 2008 No Comments

Fujifilm have been demonstrating a twin-lens 3D camera using its new Finepix Real 3D system, which is expected to hit the market in 2009. Two Fujinon lenses are positioned 6-7cm apart from each other, roughly mimicking the average distance between the human eyes, and each capture a frame at the same time; those are combined by a new processor that takes into account focus, zoom range and exposure and creates a stereoscopic image.

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Digital Cube Telson UMPC with 3D video camera set for release

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 3rd 2008 No Comments

Telson’s 3D UMPC prototype, last seen in June, could be closer to a commercial release than expected, after new company owners Digital Cube announced their intentions to bring it to market. With a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor, 512MB RAM and 30GB hard drive, the Telson device’s particular talent is its 3D screen and – courtesy of a newly unveiled attachment – 3D video capture.

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JVC Pseudo 3D glasses are a step up from the 3D glasses of yore

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Oct 2nd 2008 1 Comment

A lot of prototypes for all sorts of devices are showing up at CEATEC in Japan this week. One such prototype is a pair of “pseudo 3D” glasses from JVC that convert 2D video in real time to something that resembles 3D.

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Philips 3D HDTV is 56-inch wonder

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Oct 1st 2008 No Comments

Since I was a kid I loved everything in 3D. I remember getting so excited when a sitcom was going to air in 3D and you had to pick up the special glasses at the supermarket along with a copy of the TV Guide. Those were the days. But now Philips is bringing the three-dimensional experience straight into your home.

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KDDI demo WVGA OLED and 3D LCD for upcoming cellphones

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 1st 2008 No Comments

KDDI have been demonstrating two new displays that will likely find their way into future cellphones from the company. On show at CEATEC JAPAN 2008, the first panel is a 3.1-inch OLED running at 800 x 480 WVGA resolution; developed by Samsung, it offers the usual improved color reproduction and lower power requirements of OLED together with the ability to show finer detail in text and media.

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Panasonics promises World’s first 3D full HD Plasma Theater System

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Sep 24th 2008 No Comments

Panasonic showed off its 103-inch Plasma with an additional of 3D system at the opening of CEATEC, in Japan. The demonstration kicked off with a set of battery powered 3D goggles and Blu-Ray player in a big Plasma screen. What? Another 3D technology that requires goggles? The company claimed they have developed the World’s first full HD Plasma Theater System with true-to-life 3D images; technology utilized a sequential image processing to distribute full HD video to left and right eye from Blu-ray source.

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NVIDIA PhysX technology used in Shattered Horizon

By Emily Price on Wednesday, Aug 27th 2008 No Comments

nvidia2 NVIDIA has announced that Futuremark games will be using NVIDIA PhysX technology for its new first-person shooter, Shattered Horizon. The game is a first-person shooter that simulates a zero-gravity environment.

Jukka Makinen, Head of Futuremark Games Studio said “Shattered Horizon has a real space setting that offers gameplay, tactics, and freedom of movement that cannot be found in any other shooter…PhysX is essential in helping our game designers create a realistic and fun zero-gravity combat experience”

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LivePlace renders virtual city ‘in the cloud’

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Aug 12th 2008 No Comments

If you visited LivePlace.com yesterday, you would have seen a video up that portrayed a virtual city called City Space that looked almost real. Now, this is nothing new for movie-style graphics, but it’s definitely new for online gaming. Apparently the domain is owned by Brad Greenspan, co-founder of MySpace.com and the video portrays a game running on OTOY, a 3D graphics engine that renders “in the cloud.”

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Obscura Digital VisionAire 3D multitouch hologram

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Aug 5th 2008 No Comments

Obscura Digital, who specialise in interactive media, have released a video demonstrating their new VisionAire “multitouch” projection system. The company themselves admit that it’s not exactly true multitouch, since there’s actually no contact involved; in fact, you gesture around in mid-air to control different windows and other objects. Multiple people can use the system at the same time.