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We told you it was coming: 3DTV.  And now at CES 2009, Panasonic is going to be showing off just that. Matsushita Electric Co, Ltd. is using their Panasonic brand to demonstrate a 103-inch plasma 3DTV and Blu-ray disc player that delivers high def images (1920 x 1080 pixels for… Continue Reading »

It is widely known that the future of Blu-ray is in 3D and a feasible idea for this was shown by Panasonic at the CEATEC show in Japan although it was pre-production.  However they have now made a bid to be king of this future market with a proposal to… Continue Reading »

I don’t know if any of you can remember the old 3D films where the glasses were given out at the start, but just the memory recalls feelings of nausea.  In fact it is these films that automatically put me off anything with ‘3D’ as a prefix.  However the “Novo… Continue Reading »

Photographers have been messing around with 3D photography for years.  It just hasn’t been a nice and easy, already developed for them, consumer-friendly, point and shoot 3D camera they were using to take the photos.  Some photographers were rigging up their own cameras to get the effect, some doing it… Continue Reading »

Just imagine watching Monday Night Football with the players looking like they are running right at you.  Talk about experiencing the excitement of the game without actually being there.  Or fighting the bad guys in your favorite video game (and you thought the Wii made the fighting seem realistic). Scientists… Continue Reading »

Looking for the next video format war?  It might be in the last place you want it: movie theaters.  Sony announced Thursday that has teamed up with Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount Pictures to promote the new Sony-developed digital projection setup.  This came only a day after five major studios… Continue Reading »

You probably remember sitting in a movie theater, wearing those crazy blue and red glasses, the big monster seeming to come off the screen right at you.  Well, 3D has come even further, and is even more amazingly lifelike.  And one of the latest steps forward is actually a step… Continue Reading »

Seems as though the folks over there at Microsoft have really been busy as of late. Their Office Labs recently released the the Speed Launch Program , and now Microsoft ‘s Live Labs just released their Photosynth program for consumers. What was once just a “oh isn’t that so pretty”… Continue Reading »

Net giant Google just revealed their plans to release their version of living in a virtual world with the online 3D social arena “Lively.”  Unlike the program “Second Life”, Lively allows users to enter “their world” via IE or Firefox after the initial download and installation of the program. You… Continue Reading »

Fans of pop phenomenon Hannah Montana would be glad to know that the August release of the Blu-ray Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour will be available in both 2D and 3D viewing modes, which makes this the first Blu-ray release to offer 3D. Both… Continue Reading »