Microsoft Creating 3D Effect By Shooting Images Straight Into Your Eye [3Dwithoutglasses]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5561095/microsoft-creating-3d-effect-by-shooting-images-straight-into-your-eye

The reason I'm not sold on 3D? Those nasty glasses. Luckily, Microsoft is ditching the glasses, choosing instead to create 3D by beaming different images into each eye.

Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group is creating 3D by using a camera to track viewers' eyes and a new special lens. That lens is shaped like a wedge, with 11mm thickness at the top vs 6mm at the bottom. Apparently, the wedge lens can steer light straight into a viewers eye by switching light-emitting diodes along its bottom edge on and off. Basically, by controlling the light, it can display different images on the screen and direct where each image goes.

The limit of their prototype is that currently, only 2 people can watch 3D at one time (one image per eye) or 4 people can watch a 2D video (one image per person). I say no worries Microsoft, it's not like I was going to host a huge 3D kegger given how expensive those damned 3D Glasses cost. [Technology Review]

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Sony LCD 3DTV Gets Disappointing First Look [3dTv]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5561454/sony-lcd-3dtv-gets-disappointing-first-look

Gary Merson at HD Guru has seen Sony's new KDL-55HX800 LCD 3DTV live and in person. His first take? Even a slight tilt of the head makes you see double and lose the 3D effect. Uh oh.

Merson found a whole range of things to be troubled about in his time with the Sony: double-vision, color shift, relatively shallow depth. But the main issue—as Mark reported at this year's CES—is that LCD and OLED screens just aren't up to 3D. At least not in the way that plasma displays clearly are.

It's also worth mentioning that the HX800 Merson viewed is actually the lowest end 3D model Sony offers, and in fact is technically a "3D-ready" set, meaning that it uses a separate sync transmitter instead of the integrated 3D functionality of the LX900 series. We won't know how big, if any, a difference that makes until we're able to compare the two side by side. But for now, the early returns suggest that plasma's still the early king of 3D technology. [HD Guru]

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Google adding 'Chromoting' remote desktop functionality to Chome OS?

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/

Well, this one's come a bit out of left field, but it looks like Chrome OS could be set to get a pretty big new addition: a remote desktop feature dubbed "Chromoting" (at least for now). That word comes courtesy of an apparently authentic message from Google software engineer Gary Kačmarčík posted on a Chrome OS mailing list, which goes on to explain that the feature would let you run "legacy PC applications" right in the browser, and that it would be "something like" Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection. No more details than that, unfortunately, nor is there any indication that the feature will actually be included in the initial release of Chrome OS that's launching this fall, with Kačmarčík only going so far as to say that Google is "adding new capabilities all the time."

Google adding 'Chromoting' remote desktop functionality to Chome OS? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola Droid X stars in its clearest off-the-cuff preview yet (update: comparison shots!)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/motorola-droid-xtreme-stars-in-its-clearest-off-the-cuff-preview/

Let's be honest, we've seen more Droid X / Xtreme / Shadow spy shots than we can keep track of at this point, but for the latest batch, Mr. Blurrycam must've forgot his trademark blur filter and delivered us the cleanest images yet -- for shame, we know. Here's what the current owners of the super-secret phone, Gadget University, are claiming: 4.3-inch screen (it seems to jump between 4.3 and 4.1, depending on whom you ask), 1GHz Snapdragon processor, HDMI out, HD video recording, Android 2.1 with a "new version of Motoblur" (Ninjablur, you say?), and hardware navigation buttons. The Verizon logo is again unmistakably clear, and according to the site's "inside information," the Droid X (as the Model number says) is coming next month, with training beginning at the end of this month.

[Thanks, Sean]

Update: And here it is alongside some of its contemporaries. Thanks, Jeremey!

Motorola Droid X stars in its clearest off-the-cuff preview yet (update: comparison shots!) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Artefact puts Flash on your iPad 'In A Pinch' (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/artefact-puts-flash-on-your-ipad-in-a-pinch-video/

Despite Steve Jobs's ethical reservations, it's clear that people want Flash on their iPads (or at the very least, developers want to find ways put it there). Recently we saw Smokescreen, a browser plug-in that pulls apart SWF binaries and reassembles them into something Apple-friendly. Taking a slightly different tack, the kids at the Artefact Group have been working on a service called Flash In A Pinch. Right now, it's but a proof-of-concept, but it's a pretty sweet concept at that: Flash is rendered on Artefact's servers, which streams the images to the user's Safari browser. By placing a Javascript layer on top of the content, the user's touch interactions can be sent back to the server, making the whole megillah fully interactive. At present, the whole affair is a little too slow to use, and as of yet there is no sound, but all in all it's a great start. Video after the break. Hit the source link for more technical details (and yet more videos).

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Artefact puts Flash on your iPad 'In A Pinch' (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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