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Kinect: Glasses Free 3d Today, Manipulable Holograms Tomorrow?
Posted by Jacob Pederson on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 05:01:00 EDT in Design
Some of us are probably aware of Johnny Lee's hardhacked Wiimote, providing head track 3d on a budget. For anyone that's not familiar with it, the tech works by taking advantage of human's other great 3d sensing technique, parallax.
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Gaming, Magic, and Consciousness  Featured Blogs
Posted by Jacob Pederson on Thu, 13 May 2010 05:31:00 EDT in
The brain is a malleable organic computer, forced by millions of years of brutal refinement to become the single most efficient and adaptable computational device on this planet. No wonder controllers are like second nature to us.
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Comment In: PC hardware shipments see worst decline ever as mobile reigns [News - 04/11/2013 - 10:47]

Good point Lance. These numbers ...

Good point Lance. These numbers probably don 't even include us folks who build pcs from newegg , we are such a tiny part of the market This number reflects normal people who went from checking their email/facebook on a dell to checking it on a phone. Personally I can ...

Comment In: What's holding back Crysis 3? [News - 03/01/2013 - 04:01]

Score drops/rises for particular platforms ...

Score drops/rises for particular platforms are due to the following: In some sense, a score is a comparison of the quality of a game vs quality of other games On That Platform. Hence, the PS3 Effect, where a cross platform title will score better on the PS3 due to there ...

Comment In: We asked three PS4 developers how expensive their games are [News - 02/21/2013 - 08:47]

Finally an informed voice Thanks ...

Finally an informed voice Thanks Nick :

Comment In: Searching for the Other Castle: Women as Objectives [Blog - 02/21/2013 - 03:34]

Personally, I always took Mona ...

Personally, I always took Mona as Wander 's Sister in Shadow of the Colossus. r n r nI do agree with a lot of your points in this article although I think its dangerous to fixate on them too much. I don 't think there is anything wrong with the ...

Comment In: Realism in Gaming [Blog - 02/16/2013 - 09:41]

Photo-realistic is a term that ...

Photo-realistic is a term that gets thrown around a little too lightly. What does it mean exactly That a single freeze frame should be indistinguishable from a photo If that is the case, our monitors are far short in terms of DPI alone And why are we talking about freeze ...

Comment In: Raw Power Still Matters [Blog - 02/15/2013 - 09:55]

I 'm not a game ...

I 'm not a game dev by any stretch, but aren 't assets being made right now at much higher resolutions/poly counts than are actually needed for the game, then scaled back as needed I don 't think asset quality and detail are going to be the huge cost increasers ...

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