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Sharp unveil their 10.6” 3D display for e-Book readers and Tablet
Last week Sharp amazed us and the world with its 3D Glasses-less monitor for PDA, and today at Sharp Press conference for a new 3D (with glasses) series of TVs, Sharp unveil a new 10.6” 3D screen made for e-Book readers, Tablets or Netbooks, where here as well 3D glasses are unnecessary and proposed with or without touchscreen… Honestly we can tell you how much impatient we are to see devices that will be sold with these screens…

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Op dinsdag 13 april 2010 10:26 schreef Aether het volgende:
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Nintendo: "3DS Is Our Next Handheld Platform"
Dispelling any doubt over the significance of the upcoming 3DS, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has told BusinessWeek that the console is the company's "next handheld platform".

"We have ideas of what we want to bring to the consumer that we can't do with the current DS model", he said. "The Nintendo 3DS for us is our next handheld platform."

While this seemed likely given the fact that DS support for the 3DS has been described as "backwards compatability", this is the first official confirmation we've had that the 3DS will indeed be an all-new handheld generation, making it Nintendo's fourth after the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS.

The world will get its first look at the 3DS in June, during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.

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Op dinsdag 13 april 2010 15:03 schreef Der_Onkel het volgende:
Hoe zat het trouwens met de graphics van de 3ds? Werden die nou van GC niveau?

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Nintendo will launch the 3DS this October, according to our colleagues at CVG.

UK trade sources told the site that the new handheld platform will be available in sixth months’ time, and that an official announcement is being readied for E3.

A senior publishing source said: "It's a surprise - we were expecting it much closer to Christmas. But I suppose it gives Nintendo the opportunity to get it front and centre in people's minds nice and early.

"In my experience, you don't launch a product that early to Christmas unless you're confident in it - and going to spend a lot of money on it. We're reassured that Nintendo is going to give it some decent backing in Q4."

Announced last month, 3DS will allow games to be "enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses". It will also feature backwards compatibility with DS and DSi software.

Nintendo has suggested that its arrival will mark as significant a transition as the move from Game Boy to DS six years ago. The company said previously that the device will be available during the fiscal year ending March 2011.

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Apple is reportedly considering making a takeover bid for Cambridge, UK-based technology firm ARM Holdings.

The iPhone maker is ARM’s biggest customer, and market speculation suggests it wants to take its chip design-in house.

ARM shares leapt 8.1p to 251.1p, topping the Footsie winners' list, as more than five million shares changed hands by midday yesterday, according to the Evening Standard.

ARM is considered to be market dominant in the field of mobile phone chips. Its processors are used as the main CPU for most mobiles, including those manufactured by Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, and handhelds including the iPod and Nintendo DS. The wireless local area network processor of Sony's PSP is an ARM9.

“A deal would make a lot of sense for Apple,” said one trader. “That way, they could stop ARM's technology from ending up in everyone else's computers and gadgets.”

Traders value ARM at more than £5.2 billion. During its second quarter earnings call this week, Apple said it had cash plus short-term and long-term marketable securities totalling $41.7 billion (£27.1 billion).

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Samsung is launching the B710 smart phone utilizing glasses-less 3D technology that could be similar to what will be seen on the Nintendo 3DS. The software renders 3D scenes from 2D material by estimating depth based on various visual ques such as different degrees of shading and sizing of virtual objects. Julien Flack, CTO of Dynamic Digital Depth (DDD) and father of this 3D rendering system, is concentrating on video games to bring his technology to the mainstream.

He states that 3D geometry is "available inside the game itself" and can be accessed by his software to be made visible.


Not much is known about Nintendo's 3DS but if this indeed is the technology behind it then not only will glasses be unneeded but old DS games may be playable in 3D from the handheld's launch. The 3DS might also be closer to releasing then once thought if the rendering system is already appearing on phones. Nintendo fans rejoice!...

But don't get too excited. This technology appearing on phones may actually be a huge blow to Nintendo. The DS dominated casual games before the iPhone and Touch became popular places for quick and simple games. How long will it be before an Apple product releases with 3D capabilities?

It is very plausible that Flack is right about portable gaming being the road to the mainstream for 3D the same way it was for casual games. Flack's technology allows for so many possibilities and the chance for 3D games to appear on most portable devices.

The B710 released last month so the 3D software may begin appearing elsewhere soon.

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Op zondag 25 april 2010 22:52 schreef Notorious_Roy het volgende:
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Op zondag 25 april 2010 22:55 schreef Wii-Style het volgende:

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Dat zijn hologrammen.

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Op dinsdag 11 mei 2010 11:40 schreef SuperFruitig het volgende:

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ow en don't believe the hype Roy

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Op dinsdag 11 mei 2010 11:52 schreef mindyourstep het volgende:
Het succes van de DS is juist het 2D. 3D wordt m niet

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Op dinsdag 11 mei 2010 10:42 schreef Notorious_Roy het volgende:
Korte nieuwtjes van de afgelopen periode (waar is de hype? )

› 3D functie is uit te zetten

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› 3DS is niet de uiteindelijke naam

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› Er wordt nagedacht over online functies en of er voor betaald moet worden

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› Geruchten gaan over een Virtual Console, maar dan van Gameboy games

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Op dinsdag 11 mei 2010 12:03 schreef Notorious_Roy het volgende:

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Ik zit al in de trein

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Analyst: Nintendo Expects to Sell 5 Million 3DS Units by March 2011
Nintendo's financial predictions also suggest the 3DS will be released by November.


Nintendo hasn't announced any official launch details for the (tentatively named) Nintendo 3DS handheld, but it looks like their financial forecasts hold more clues than one would expect. In a new note on Industry Gamers, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research analyst Jesse Divnich parses Nintendo's sales expectations for the DS, and determines the company will likely launch the 3DS in two regions by November, and expects to sell 5 million units by March 2011.
These numbers are arrived at by looking at Nintendo's overall DS sales expectations through the rest of the fiscal year (ending March, 2011). "According to their expected Nintendo DS and 3DS sales (they combine both sales into one category) our estimates indicate that Nintendo is expecting the 3DS to sell 5 million units by March 2011," Divnich writes. "Given historical sales of the Nintendo DS, which coincidently sold 5 million units through March 2005, Nintendo is likely to announce that the 3DS will be available in at least two regions beginning in November 2010. Additionally, they are likely to reveal the project's actual name [at E3]."

A previous rumor had the 3DS's release pegged for October, but either way, this would still have the new handheld on store shelves by the holiday season. Nintendo has only officially stated the handheld would be out in Japan before March 2011.

Elsewhere in his note, Divnich says he expects E3 2010 will be an "inflection point for the industry," with much depending on how well Microsoft's Project Natal, Sony's Move motion controller, and the 3DS are received by the press and public. "Either E3 2010 acts as a positive catalyst and boosts industry confidence, or it reinforces the negative notions about the long-term viability of traditional gaming," Divnich writes. "The results will fall on either extreme, and my vote is that E3 2010 will be the best industry event in the history of modern gaming."