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2D vs 3D what is in store and where are we going? What usually starts out as a friendly discussion can easily turn into a venom spewing argument about what’s better, what sells more, and if the 2d era is still relevant.

It seems Mr. Miyamoto, someone who’s made his fair share of both 2d and 3d titles, weighed in on a similar discussion in the latest Nintendo Power.  Miyamoto thinks that not everything needs to be 3d while conceding that there are huge benefits to it. On the the 2d front, he says these games should focus on fun and gameplay and not worry too much about visual experience.

What he says could be misconstrued to mean 2d games look like a pile of brownie mix, but on second thought you can take it to mean sometimes 2d games try too hard to be like 3d games and lose focus on the important aspect (i.e. FUN).  This couldn’t be more true as New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a blast to play and doesn’t require too much skill to just pop in and have some fun .

2D gaming is far from being over although it’s fears are valid with the new breed of 3D games and gamers it is a great lesson in sustainability and weathering time. Lets just keep it fun and play nice there is room for 2D and 3D. Right?

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As everyone is aware, 3D cinema has rapidly established itself in the Hollywood limelight as the decade draws to an end. This year has possibly being the most eventful year in 3D audience’s history, over the past eleven months brand new invigorating news is released on a daily basis which leaves technological consumers in awe. At this moment in time cinema screens are filled with 3D films, advertisements are now literally jumping out of the screen at audiences, laptops with 3D capabilities allow gamers to be completely emerged in their virtual world and now television audiences are invited into the three dimensional experience.

Channel 4, a British television station has recently brought UK audiences a full week of 3D television programming and it was received with open arms. Although the 3D technology has had a tendency to re-appear then disappear just as quickly, the modern advancements in electronic technology are sure to see the three dimensional ‘gimmick’ becoming a permanent fixture in a television consumer’s life.  In 2010 many companies are set to release full HD 3D television sets into the market, as well seeing popular gaming consoles being updated to bring the 3D experience into the console gaming world. As well as the technology improving, television broadcasters are also constantly in talks over potential future 3D programming. Most recently the 2010 FIFA World Cup has been said to aim for at least 50% of its games to be aired in HD 3D, whilst the director of the London 2012 Olympic games aims to bring the global event to audiences in this new exciting way. As well as individual events being discussed about airing in 3D, ‘SKY’ television has taken the process a step further by stating that they would launch the United Kingdom’s first ever 3D channel by the end of 2010. After hearing of all the upcoming releases and plans, and by reviewing Hollywood’s intended output, the future is certainly set for a surge of ‘in your face’, three dimensional experiences which will not fade away quite as easily as before.

3D in the sense of capturing reality in real time manipulating it and generating incredible motion pictures plucked from time and space. MIT has Created the ultimate in  Computer based illustration  a  uniquely design paint brush specially made for children bust the possibilities are endless. The I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them literally. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special “ink” they just picked up from their immediate environment. Just running the brush over any surface, object, animal, vegetable, or mineral it as you have turned the world in to you palette you can even use moving objects.

There are many paint/drawing programs on the market today that are designed especially for kids. These let kids do neat things, but kids usually end up playing only with the “preprogrammed” digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the kids build their own ink. They can take any colors, textures, and movements they want to experiment with from their own environment and paint with their personal and unique ink. Kids are not only exploring through construction of their personal art project, but they are also exploring through construction of their own tools (i.e., the palette/ink) to build their art project with.

Source: http://web.media.mit.edu/

Hollywood is turning just about everything into a movie, from board games to game shows? Whats next Double Dare?  The Dating Game or Fear Factor. Imagine Brad Pitt Eating Earthworms. We have already seen Who wants to be a millionaire portrayed on the big screen in”Slumdog Millionaire”, and now one of the producers of “300″ is bringing us “American Gladiators” in 3D no less.

Scott Mednick, also an executive producer of this fall’s “Where the Wild Things Are,” has hired “Point Break” screenwriter Peter Iliff to script the previously announced adaptation of the physical competition series as a movie that, Variety says, will “feature the Herculean characters as superheroes.” The contenders have yet to be names but It would certainly be appropriate to have amateur athletes as the contenders to be true to the format of the show, which involved everyday contenders battling the gigantic male and female Gladiators for a shot at $100,000 and a car.

“American Gladiators” was a hit in the ’90s and then revamped for a short-lived redo last year. The fact that the recent version wasn’t as successful can now only be explained by the fact that it wasn’t big and in-your-face enough. Apparently, as /Film noticed, the movie version will be in 3-D, since IMDb lists “U2 3D” producers 3ality Digital as handling the adaptation’s special effects.

If you’re excited to see pugil sticks and sling-shot humans coming at you in 3-D, you’ll likely also be happy to know the “Jackass” franchise will allegedly be continued in a third movie, this one in three dimensions as well. Cinematical writer William Goss noticed the “Jackass 3-D” title in an e-mail detailing Paramount’s 2010 slate. In what may be the most logical utilization of the new 3-D technology, we’ll be able to see all of the crazy stunts heightened by the format, whether it’s Johnny Knoxville being shot from a catapult or Steve-O’s notoriously weak stomach spewing phantom bile all over the audience.

Now if only we can get Smell-O-Vision back for “Jackass 3-D” as well. Okay, so maybe that wouldn’t be such a popular experience, but the 3-D element will fit perfectly. I just hope that between this and the “American Gladiators” film, nobody gets the idea to bring us “America’s Funniest Home Videos 3-D” on the big screen. Then again, “man getting hit in the crotch” in 3-D would be quite hilarious, wouldn’t it?

Source: Movieblog.mtv.com

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The December edition of Esquire magazine is a special “augmented reality” edition where readers use custom-designed software and a webcam to interact with the pages being viewed and get access to 3D animated video content.

The term augmented reality was first used by Tom Caudell in the early 1990s. Then, as now, it means adding audio, animation or graphic layers to live video and was used back then by Boeing workers to help them sort factory parts. It’s since been used in everything from adverts to gaming. With the December edition of men’s magazine Esquire, augmented reality has reached the printed page.

After experimenting with things like origami (May edition) and e-ink (October 2008 edition), Esquire began considering the possibility of making a whole interactive magazine edition in the Spring of this year when The Barbarian Group were called in to help.

After toying with lots of ideas, Esquire settled on creating a 3D cover, a weather-changing fashion portfolio, a time-sensitive funny joke from a beautiful woman, plus a song, a photo slideshow, and an ad from Lexus. The challenge was to bring them all together for one edition.

Robert Downey Jr. was asked to perform a routine in front of a green screen for animation studio Psyop. Then two more sequences were shot using Jeremy Renner and Gillian Jacobs before Psyop added the animation, frame-by-frame.

To use the magazine, readers need to download a C++ application from a page on Esquire’s website. The software recognizes a black and white patterned marker on the printed page picked up via webcam and translates it into a video sequence enhanced by 3D animation on the computer screen.

Tilting the page towards and away from the webcam yields different situations. For instance, the cover shows Downey Jr. sitting on the box marker. Pointing the box straight at the webcam sees the Iron Man star jump off the box. Tilting and turning the magazine results in different scenarios being produced on-screen (see below), all controlled by the reader.

Other markers feature throughout the December issue and revealing them to a webcam initiates similar augmented reality sequences, but for the purposes of generating some intrigue, I’ll not divulge any more. You’ll have check them out for yourself.

Esquire says that this is just the beginning, plans are already underway for page recognition without the need for special markers and even mobile phone generated interaction.

Source: Esquire.com

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Roland Emmerich tells MTV he is developing an Independence Day sequel, and he also hopes to film it as two-back-to-back movies. Emmerich says that the reason for two movies is that he wants “to do a bigger [story] arc” which will “continue the story” and begin “twelve, thirteen, fourteen years” after the first one ended. Emmerich is even floating around a title for the new films: “ID4-Ever” followed by “Part I” and “Part II” .

Will Smith would likely return, and the story would again be set on planet Earth, presumably mostly rebuilt since the last time we saw it, when a new invasion again threatens the world. No other story details have been revealed, but I would assume that it wouldn’t be an Independence Day sequel if most of the original characters didn’t return. I wonder where Bill Pullman’s President Thomas J. Whitmore might be a decade and a half later. Is he still in office? Who knows, America might’ve changed the law to extend the President’s term of office. I’m sure a lot of things will be very different than the world we knew before. This would be an alien invasion movie set in a changed world, post 7-04.

I would love to believe that Emmerich is sane, but his movies have led me to believe otherwise. And when Emmerich starts making monstrous claims about the future of the Independence Day series, I must question if there is anything more than some ideas he impulsively came up with during an interview with MTV. Does he actually believe 20th Century Fox would fiance a series of back-to-back big budget disaster movie sequels in this economy (In Emmerich’s defense, we are talking about the same studio that funded Avatar)? I’m guessing that he’s just throwing the idea out there, and seeing if fans respond. He’s looking for a reaction. But who knows if Fox would be willing to fund one Independence Day sequel, nevermind two, if Emmerich’s latest disaster film 2012 doesn’t deliver at the box office.

Source: www.Movieblog.mtv.com

CBS’s TV.com Using Cooliris’s “Embed Wall” 3D Visual Navigation Interface on its Shows Page. Cooliris claims its’ interface allows users to scan significantly more media than standard interfaces. Wednesday, visual navigation specialist, Cooliris, announced that CBS-owned broadband video/community site, TV.com (TV.com features full episodes, clips, entertainment news, show summaries, polls, forums and more), is using its flagship Cooliris Embed Wall as the interface for its shows page aswell. On TV.com, the interface lets users browse a wall of thumbnails, or filter by genre to select episode summaries, guides and videos. Earlier this year, Cooliris announced that it had secured over $15 million in Series B funding from a group of investors that includes Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, The Westly Group and the T-Mobile Venture Fund.

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I have been highly skeptical of 3D movies for some time now. I have considered them a fad and a gimmick. I have never seen anything that convinced me that 3D movies (or stereoscopic movies as the real losers like to call them) are anything more than a way of getting people into movie theaters. I have never seen anything that showed me that 3D could be used in a really innovative, truly revolutionary way.

Until I saw that Jackass 3D is on Paramount’s 2010 release slate.

This is the moment that 3D has been waiting for. Avatar is just the John the Baptist for Jackass 3D’s Jesus Christ, preparing the way, getting enough theaters converted to digital so that Johnny Knoxville can come right into your face. And they may very literally cum right into your face.

With the 3D process you will be in the movie. You won’t just be watching Steve-O shitting in his pants, he’ll be shitting in your pants. You won’t just be passively observing Bam Margera being a complete cock to his family, you’ll also be punching his big fat sleeping father. You won’t just be laughing when Johnny Knoxville wipes out and breaks a bone, it will be your jaw that shatters.

This is the best news I’ve heard all day and I’m not being one percent satirical. I think that Jackass is a work of genius performance art, and while I think that Jackass 2.0 wasn’t as good as the first film (or the best of the series), the possibility of having these guy’s dicks, blood, feces, vomit and other horribleness coming out of the screen right at me is just about the peak of what 3D technology can ever deliver.

Source: http://www.chud.com

TOKYO — Cutbacks at Sony are bearing fruit, but a second year of losses means there is “more work to be done,” chief executive Howard Stringer warned Thursday at a pair of briefings for the media and investors.

“Ownership of both content and hardware gives us an advantage, an example being how Blu-ray won the format battle. Our big movie titles also helped us win the projector battle with 4DK over 2DK,” said Stringer, who pointed out that the two largest US distributors (AMC and Regal) have signed up to install 4DK digital projectors on 11,000 screens, with 3D capabilities on the way.

Stringer insisted the new “horizontal group structure” would ensure decisions are no longer taken in isolation. The promise of synergy between contents and hardware, and the breaking down of silos, has been a consistent theme of Stringer’s tenure. He was at pains to point out this was happening now – quoting a game reviewer from the New York Times who had praised the “end-to-end entertainment statement” of “Uncharted 2,” the PlayStation 3, and a 46” XBR9 television.

“Driving costs out of the company to rightsize the operations, saving 330 billion yen ($3.7 billion) this year, and targeting a 20% reduction in procurement costs, which last year totaled 2.5 trillion yen ($28 billion),” was also central to the strategy, explained Stringer.

Sony also aims to regain the leading position in the LCD TV market, predicting profitability by 2010, and a 20% market share by 2012, and develop an “evolving TV” concept. These will be screens equipped with “richer internet connectivity”, which will allow for increased after-sales revenue through downloaded contents.

The company predicts that 3D products, described by Hiroshi Yoshioka as “a pillar of our strategy,” will bring in 1 trillion yen ($11.2 billion) in sales by 2013.

Networked Products and Services division head, Kazuo Hirai, said the company was targeting a further 15% in cost reductions next year to achieve profitability in the group that includes the game division which Hirai previously led.

“The PlayStation Network (PSN) online platform is growing strongly and now has 33m registered customers, tripled sales last year, and features 2,417 movies and 15,042 TV programs,” said Hirai.

A new online service, provisionally titled Sony Online Service, is to deliver contents directly to a growing range of connected Sony products, initially utilizing the PSN platform.  Sony is aiming for network service sales of 300 billion yen ($3.7 billion) from 350 million units of networked products, by 2012, according to Hirai.

Sony has laid-off 19,500 staff this year.

Sony stock slid 2.2% on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which closed before the strategy statements, compared with a 1.3% fall for the Nikkei 225 index

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Sirius 3D’s ColorsCode 3D Division will be the hands working behind UK’s Channel 4 3D Week. 3D week just started last November 16, 2009. In line with the said promotion, Sainburry’s Supermarket, exclusively, will be giving out 10 million ColorCode 3D glasses.

Channel 4’s 3D Week along with the glasses can be enjoyed at home. 3D Week features Hannah Montana, the Queen’s Coronation, Derren Brown the Magician and a lot more. What’s more? If the stereoscopic depth is too much, a viewer may just remove the 3D glasses and it could be enjoyed in 2D.

Viewers who will not able to get the exclusive 3D glasses will still be able to view 3D Week features since all is watchable in 2D.

“Our 3-D glasses have amber and blue filters built into them: amber for colour information,

blue for depth. The great advantage of ColorCode 3-D is that, compared with the old-style

anaglyph (red/green) glasses used for early 3-D movies or the polarised glasses used in

3-D cinemas today, the technology allows content to be watched using the naked eye and, in

these circumstances, still provides an acceptable viewing experience. Additionally, for the Channel 4 event, we developed our technology further, implementing a special broadcast processing so that anyone watching 3D Week while wearing the glasses will get a noticeable 3-D effect – not just those on a high-quality digital connection, but also those on an analogue connection, on a lower-bandwidth SD connection, or using a digital receiver connected with an antenna cable, S-video or composite rather than HDMI. Furthermore, we have developed a live 3-D transmission system with ColorCode 3-D encoding in real-time, so that Channel 4 can incorporate live broadcasts into the 3D Week schedule,” Steen Iversen said, CEO, Sirius 3D ApS.

photo courtesy of Channel 4

More of this article at colorcode3d.com.

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