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CES: Death of Active 3D and the rise of 2nd Gen. 3D (Passive)
Jan 7th
Crowd @ CES viewing LG's new Cinema 3D technology
Something is very very clear at CES this year, Active 3DTV is sooooooo last year. Passive 3D is the new hotness and Glasses-Free 3DTV is somewhere in the future (though not soon).
I’m sorry to say, but if you’re one of those early 3DTV adopters that bought an Active 3DTV from Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, etc. etc. that technology is a thing of the past.
If you like going to movies, watching tv, even playing games on the computer, Passive 3D is clearly what you want….
Click through to find out more…. More >
Oakley to create 3D Eyewear, on Sale this Holiday
Sep 18th
Oakley announced on Wednesday that they have developed a 3D Optics platform known as HDO-3D. Their 3D Glasses will be the first with optically corrected 3D Lenses. Other websites seem to have interpreted this as meaning that Oakley will be making Prescription 3D eyewear. If this were true why wouldn’t they have just said so? I don’t think that is what they announced, I think they were announcing that their HDO-3D lenses have something similar to normal Oakley lenses.
Standard Oakley Sunglasses have lenses that have been optically corrected. This means that the light passing through the lenses isn’t being distorted, allowing the wearer to see clearly and accurately. If this is true, I’m excited to get my hands on a pair of their 3D glasses. I’m not a fan of those cheap disposable glasses (see below) that they hand out at the theaters, and if you have read this article from Better Housekeeping you wouldn’t want to even touch them.
Anyway, the official press release is available below the fold. Click through and check it out.
Apple's Forced Hand
Feb 25th
Apple is getting more and more popular. In my opinion, they are now bigger than Microsoft. Well they are at least more popular and covered more in the media. That is another story and yet very much the reason why Apple’s hand has been forced lately. In January, Apple announced the much rumored iPhone. Heck even that name was forced. The iPhone was talked about so heavily, first on the Apple fanboy sites, and then in the main media, that Apple would have been stupid at that point to name it something else. Heck, they were forced to do a phone in my opinion.
Let’s back it up a bit though. Apple has changed the music industry so greatly it has garnered millions of followers and I’m sure millions of haters. As a result of being so huge, being the top dog in an industry, all eyes are on them. They move an inch and it creates massive waves in the industry, and at the very least in the media. So enter Apple’s Fall 2006 release of their new iPod nano. Revolutionary? No. Yes it looks cool. Yes Steve has a magical quality to his presentations where everyone is awestruck. The problem? There wasn’t much there. If Apple didn’t deliver, their stock holders would get mad, the stock price would drop, etc, etc. So they were forced to show something before it was ready. Out comes the iTV, now known as Apple TV. Steve gave a demo and the media was buzzing. The stock holders were happy and the price went up. Apples arms were twisted and hands were forced to show a product about 5 months before its release.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, click through to see where Apple had their hand forced again.
