In the year when every mode of entertainment wants to go 3d: Gaming, Movies, TV broadcasts, mobile augmentation, none of the users want to wear those Glasses. What is the way out? At this year’s CeBIT, lots of manufacturers have come up with solutions to tackle the problem. Developers have found various kinds of solutions, the major ones being: Attach an Read further »

No doubt, 2010 is year of Stepping into 3D. The trend was well set during CES 2010 in Jan, there after we’ve seen a  number of 3D HDTVs making their way to our home. Keeping up to the speed, Acer has shown us some great 3D displays and now releases the H5360, a $900 ‘3D Ready’ digital projector.  The projector is certified by Nvidia’s 3D Vision (which means it has Read further »

How innovative displays can get? Can it go to an extent where the actual pixels fly-up in the air to build up a visual display? MIT Research SENSEable City Laboratory in collaboration with ARES Lab (Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory) had been working to “transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive display environment.” In its first implementation, the Flyfire project sets out to explore the capabilities of this display system by using a large number of Read further »

Most of us tend to use a different virtual avatar for the online applications like forums, blogs, and social networking. Trying to make it arcade-ish is passion among people. Recently, Microsoft had patented a technology that enables/mandates users to use RealLife-alike avatars for online use. That may be a plan for Xbox 360, but you can build your own 3D avatar that uses a similar Read further »

The Evolution and Features that can mark Success for Windows 7 – Direct X 11 from dx10 and dx9 No doubt, Windows is the best platform for Gaming. Other platforms, due to lack of proper driver support and optimizations (Linux, Mac OS); never lived upto the competition. What we mean by Best platform is: If you have a good Graphics GPU and a great Processor, you can Read further »

3D desktops can add alot of utility to your multitasking. We’ve seen how we can get a 3D desktop on Ubuntu, here’s how we an get 3D desktop on Mac (Leopard, Snow Leopard) Bumptop adds the third dimension to both Windows and Mac to make “real world desktop”. You can create visual “piles” of files or stick notes to the wall, size design, layout everything is there after fully customizable. In addition, there’s also a cool search feature that’s invoked Read further »

2009 was year of evolution and adoption of  LCD and later LED TVs and 2010 is all about 3D TVs. But wait, Toshiba is changing the trend: Embedding 10x times power of PC into a TV. You heard that right Toshiba is powering the a new 3D LED/LCD TVs with Cell processor, the same processor that powers Gaming consoles like Xbox 360 and PS3 Under the hood, Cell TV technology utilizes the IBM/Sony Read further »

3d TV broadcasts are finally making its way to the enduser. Previously, we talked about the technology that will make it possible for the consumers to use it with the existing STBs. Now, we see more promises from content providers. Three big industry giants: Discovery, Imax and Sony are forming a joint venture for a 3D television channel. The joint venture will be announced soon, timed exactly right to the CES 2010, Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where 3D television is expected to be one of the Read further »

2010 is the year when we will see 3D HDTVs finally making the way to homes after some great devices we will see during CES 2010. 1080p HD was hot in 2009 and boosted deman for BluRay. The pursuit continues by doubling the bandwidth: Stereo HD. As per the latest Spec, HDMI 1.4 supports 3D home video to  ensure compatibility between displays and boxes to make 3D 1080p Boadcasts possible. Yes, you heard it right. We would see 3D HD channels coming to home within 2010, so HDMI 1.4 brings all that using a new Spec. Why? Logically, the bandwidth is now doubled by adding dual-stream video inputs (for 3D) each of 1080p images. ”As a Read further »

It was yesterday when we talked about future of Gesture based Input for Computer. Today comes more from none other than Guru of User Interface: Apple. Apple has new Patent that aims on controlling user’s preferences with the flick of a head. Things like controlling volume and automatically apply user’s preferences, and de-emphasize or skip songs the user seldom listens to, would be automatic. MacRumors Read further »