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		<title>Amazon Reportedly Working on 3D Smartphone with Eyeball Control Interface</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/amazon-reportedly-working-on-3d-smartphone-with-eyeball-control-interface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is working on &#8220;a high-end smartphone featuring a screen that allows for 3-D images without glasses.&#8221; This rumor comes to us courtesy of &#8220;people familiar with the company&#8217;s plans,&#8221; according to the Journal. Whether true or not, it shouldn&#8217;t come as an earth shattering surprise that Amazon might be working on some sort of smartphone &#8212; the company has found success in hardware devices such as its Kindle e-book readers and Kindle Fire tablets. Oh, and speculation about an Amazon smartphone has been going on since what seems like the day after the first Kindle Fire tablet was introduced (see here, here and here, for starters). However, to tout glasses-free 3D in 2013 as a major feature of a smartphone seems downright insane. We saw a handful of glasses-free 3D smartphones trickle out a few years ago, consumers yawned, and now &#8212; surprise, surprise – we don&#8217;t hear much about glasses-free 3D smartphones. The Journal&#8216;s description of this miraculous glasses-free 3D technology certainly sounds impressive &#8212; especially the bit about being able to navigate stuff with your eyeballs: One of the devices is a high-end smartphone featuring a screen that allows for 3-D images without glasses, these people said. Using retina-tracking technology, images on the smartphone would seem to float above the screen like a hologram and appear three-dimensional at all angles, they said. Users may be able to navigate through content using just their eyes, two of the people said. But a somewhat less enthusiastic gadget user *might* read into that as a gimmick paired with a second gimmick. If the phone itself is cool and the gimmick-plus-gimmick 3D thing turns out to be a nonessential added feature, so be it. Actually, what the hell: make it the main feature and promote it heavily. I want to see what happens. The Journal also reports that Amazon is working on a second smartphone, along with &#8220;an audio-only streaming device.&#8221; The audio device would make sense given Amazon&#8217;s ownership of Audible.com; another smartphone<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162490&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened to Glasses-Free 3D TV?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/16/what-happened-to-glasses-free-3d-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brisk walk around the show floor at CES last week was all it took to confirm that the 3D TV craze is over. Vendors such as Samsung and Sony no longer thrust 3D glasses in everyone&#8217;s faces; most of their television sets weren&#8217;t showing 3D video at all. Instead, TV makers fixated on 4K displays, and how wonderful they looked without the assistance of eyewear. In fairness, 3D TV hasn&#8217;t gone away. As Sony Electronics President Phil Molyneux told my colleague Harry McCracken, it&#8217;s simply become a default feature embedded in all of the company&#8217;s new televisions. (The other way to look at it, of course, is that consumers are getting 3D TV whether they want it or not.) Now that 3D is a standard feature, TV makers are turning their attention to 4K as the next big thing. I wondered, then, what that meant for glasses-free 3D. At one point it seemed like the next natural step for televisions, but that was while 3D was still in vogue. Does the bursting of the 3D TV hype bubble spell doom for a glasses-free version? Not quite. I did see a couple of glasses-free 3D technologies at CES this year, and they both looked better than anything I&#8217;d seen before. Even so, they&#8217;re a long way off from becoming actual products that the average person can afford. The most impressive effort was a 55-inch, 4K glasses-free 3D TV prototype from Vizio, developed with Dolby and other undisclosed partners. Unlike other glasses-free panels I&#8217;ve seen in previous years (like the Toshiba model pictured above), Vizio&#8217;s set was comfortable to look at from anywhere, not just from a few specific angles. The TV did have several 3D sweet spots, and apparently the best place to watch was from about five to six feet away, but the effect simply became less pronounced or non-existent at other angles. The video itself remained crisp enough to watch. Although the 3D effect was somewhat mild in my demo, Vizio said users would be able to adjust the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155083&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 3D Hype Bubble Is Now Completely Busted</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/13/the-3d-hype-bubble-is-now-completely-busted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nintendo's cooling attitude toward glasses-free 3D signals a deep problem: Even once you remove the pesky glasses, the novelty of 3D wears off. That's a pretty staggering admission from a company that put the term "3D" in the name of its handheld.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=138982&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Better than 3D Maps from Apple and Google? Hover Aims for Ground-Level Detail with Practical Value</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/06/15/better-than-3d-maps-from-apple-and-google-hover-aims-for-ground-level-detail-with-practical-value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple and Google have each unveiled dazzling new 3D mapping tools, but one thing each lacks is a detailed, real-time street-level view. Enter Hover, a startup with a real-time mapping approach it claims can make real-time ground-level mapping a reality.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=136163&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Google&#8217;s (and Apple&#8217;s Alleged) 3D Maps Don&#8217;t Seem That Exciting</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/06/08/why-googles-and-apples-alleged-3d-maps-dont-seem-that-exciting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the hoopla about Google (and Apple's alleged) 3D maps overblown? Do people really care about 3D maps? Will anyone use the tech in a getting-around sense? Or is all this coverage of the technology just blogosphere fetishizing?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=135199&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Videoconference like a Sith Lord with 3D Hologram Telepods</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/04/videoconference-like-a-sith-lord-with-3d-hologram-telepods/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/04/videoconference-like-a-sith-lord-with-3d-hologram-telepods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apps & Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skype? That's so 21st Century. In the future, we'll all communicate like Darth Sidious, ordering our minions around in the form of three-dimensional holograms.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=130799&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MasterImage 3D&#8217;s 3D Tablet: Surprisingly Decent, and No Glasses Needed</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/05/02/masterimage-3ds-3d-tablet-surprisingly-decent-and-no-glasses-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 22:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's just a demo unit at the moment, not anything you can rush out and buy. But this Android tablet's 3D effect is easy on the eyes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=130552&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Ready for YouTube in 3D? Well, It&#8217;s Coming Anyway</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/04/05/youtube-to-convert-all-1080p-video-into-3d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, in the age of 3D blockbusters, 3D televisions and 3D smartphones, it makes sense that YouTube in 3D wouldn't be too far behind. According to YouTube's blog, the site will now be automatically converting all 1080p videos into 3D.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=127308&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s Highly Personal, Surprisingly Decent 3D Viewer</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/02/02/sonys-highly-personal-surprisingly-decent-3d-viewer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's not cheap, and it looks and feels a tad peculiar. But its 3D blows away the blurry stuff on TVs and in theaters.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=117205&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3D Glasses Go Universal</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/01/13/3d-glasses-go-universal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If 3D TV isn&#8217;t as popular as TV manufacturers presumably hope it might be, it&#8217;s in part because of the hassle of dealing with 3D glasses. And part of the hassle has been their proprietary nature: Major TV makers have sold specs that worked only with their own sets, which meant that you had to buy ones from your set&#8217;s manufacturer, and couldn&#8217;t switch TV brands without buying new glasses.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=114396&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HP 3D: Passive vs. Active</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/08/hp-3d-passive-vs-active/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[HP announced a 3D PC display and a 3D PC yesterday. To me, at least, the most interesting thing about them is that the company chose a different flavor of 3D for each device. First the display. Its official moniker is the HP 2311gt 3D monitor, and it’s a 23″ LED-backlit display. Like most 3D movies you see in theaters, the 3D is passive, which means that its uses polarized glasses that don’t have any embedded electronics and don’t cost a lot of money. In fact, the display and twoset of glasses go for $299.99, or about what you might pay for two pair of active-shutter glasses alone. Then there’s the HP TouchSmart 620 3D Edition PC. It’s a whole touch-screen PC that also uses a 23″ screen, and it’s the first TouchSmart that does 3D (and comes with a built-in 3D Webcam). Unlike the 2311gt, it uses active glasses, and comes with one set of them. Other than the 3D, it’s a typical TouchSmart, with HP’s touch interface—until Windows 8 arrives, HP is the only company that’s put the effort into making touch work well on Windows—plus a fold-back screen and Beats audio. It costs $1899.99, with a $300 “instant rebate” that brings the price down to $1599.99. (MORE: Hello, 3D PC! HP Unveils TouchSmart 620 All-in-One) HP showed me both new products last week. How’d the 3D compare? Well, I’m not the best person to render a verdict. I wear glasses and have a bizarrely wide head, so most 3D glasses (including HP’s) fit me poorly, hurting both the stereoscopic effect and my skull. Even aside from that, I find 3D gimmicky at best. (That said, I’m more excited about it for game-playing and creating 3D photos than I am for movie-watching, so 3D PCs are at least marginally more alluring to me than 3D TVs.) It seems that HP went with passive 3D on the monitor to keep the price low, and chose active for the PC because it believes it to be the superior technology. (A<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102199&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, 3D PC! HP Unveils TouchSmart 620 All-in-One</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/07/hello-3d-pc-hp-unveils-touchsmart-620-all-in-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay you visually healthy don&#8217;t-need-glasses tech buffs, here&#8217;s your chance to don a pair of Buddy Holly-thick specs (thicker, in fact) while parked in front of a computer monitor that doubles as your PC. Meet the HP TouchSmart 620 3D Edition, another svelte, tower-free desktop HP&#8217;s adding to its already crowded lineup of all-in-one space-savers. It&#8217;s yours, in its base configuration, for $1,800. The TouchSmart 620 marries the TouchSmart 610 setup to a 23-inch 3D touchscreen (the 610 also has a 23-inch touchscreen, but absent stereoscopic 3D). Inside the chunky 4.1-inch thick display, you&#8217;ll find a 3.1GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of memory, a 1.5TB hard drive, a Blu-ray drive and for the visual coup de grace, an AMD Radeon HD 6650 or 6670 graphics card. Not bad, considering the performance mid-range 6670 debuted in April this year, and it&#8217;ll be capable of average frame rates in the low 30s running a visually complex game like Crysis 2 on high detail settings at the display&#8217;s native 1920 by 1080 (1080p) pixel resolution. (MORE: HP Changes Its Mind, Won&#8217;t Spin Off PC Division) The 620 also retains the 610&#8242;s flexible ergonomics: The screen swivels up to 180 degrees and reclines up to 60 degrees—almost flat—affording you considerable leverage when shifting things around, say, to mitigate glare. Conjure 3D mode, and you&#8217;re using software from TriDef designed to make accessing the display&#8217;s 3D capabilities more user-friendly. Other tidbits: The base model includes a dual lens camera capable of grabbing 3D video as well as still shots, a TV tuner, and comes with a pair of active shutter glasses (necessary for viewing anything in 3D, of course). The TouchSmart 620 isn&#8217;t the first all-in-one 3D computer to market. Sony, Lenovo, MSI and Asus each sell all-in-one 3D desktops. As deals go, the 620&#8242;s less expensive than Sony&#8217;s $2,300 Vaio L-Series 3D Edition (the Vaio has an i7 processor and a 3TB hard drive), but it&#8217;s considerably more expensive than Lenovo&#8217;s aggressively priced $1,300 IdeaCenter B520 (with an i7 processor and Nvidia GeForce GT 555M GPU). Will anyone buy it? Probably—the 3D<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=102051&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Eye Clinic to Solve the Headache of 3D Movies?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/06/new-eye-clinic-to-solve-the-headache-of-3d-movies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For everyone who gets a headache watching a 3D movie, it&#8217;s worth remembering that you&#8217;re far from alone. In fact, according to the American Optometric Association, it&#8217;s likely that your headaches mean that you&#8217;re one of somewhere between 3 million and 9 million people who have trouble with their binocular vision, meaning that you compensate by relying on one eye over the other&#8230;which makes 3D viewing troublesome. Thankfully, help may be on the way. Today sees the opening of the new 3D Vision Performance Eye Clinic by Beaverton, Oregon&#8217;s Pacific University College of Optometry that will serve as a research facility into this issue, as well as a walk-in clinic for those with eye coordination problems. The clinic is being supported by the 3D@Home Consortium, an organization dedicated to &#8220;accelerating the adoption of quality 3D into homes worldwide,&#8221; and by THX, which is providing $40,000 worth of equipment to help research. (MORE: Sony Refuses to Pay for 3D Glasses: Will You?) THX SVP, and chairman of the 3D@Home Consortium, Rick Dean explained his support for the clinic: During the initial rollout of 3D, there has been a lot of misleading statements around the safety and health issues around 3D have been made, most of which has had no clinical proof to the negative claims. [This clinic is] providing clinical research by establishing a facility to provide eye care with a focus on stereo vision issues which has not been diagnosed in the past. Results will contribute to all aspects of 3D entertainment, but also to the use of 3D in education, and a variety of commercial applications. The clinic is also being supported by the AOA, and will offer binocular and stereopsis vision testing for children and adults as part of its research efforts. MORE: Sony&#8217;s New 3D Head-Mounted Display Probably Hipper than Viewmaster Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99220&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Gaming &amp; Culture</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/gaming-%c2%a0culture/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Sony Refuses to Pay for 3D Glasses: Will You?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/28/sony-refuses-to-pay-for-3d-glasses-will-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, you&#8217;ll happily go and watch 3D movies in theaters now, but would you be as eager to do so if you had to pay for the special stereoscopic glasses each time you went? That&#8217;s now a possibility, following news that Sony will stop paying for the glasses, necessary to view their 3D releases, starting in May 2012. Currently, studios pay somewhere between $1.5 million and $10 million per movie for 3D glasses, depending on the scale of the release, passing some of that cost on to the moviegoer via increased ticket prices. Sony&#8217;s refusal to continue to pay for the glasses after May 1, 2012 effectively forces theater owners to foot the bill for the specs from that point on (for Sony releases, at least), which could mean owners passing the cost on to customers. (MORE: World&#8217;s First No-Glasses 3D Laptop Arrives Next Month) Sony worldwide president of distribution Rory Bruer told The Hollywood Reporter that &#8220;this is an issue that has to be resolved between us and our exhibition partners,&#8221; adding that Sony is &#8220;trying to give them a very lengthy lead time in regards to the change in policy.&#8221; Sony isn&#8217;t the first studio to try moving away from paying for the glasses; Fox made an attempt some time ago, but abandoned plans based on exhibitor resistance to the idea. Sony has two major 3D movies already scheduled for next year: The Amazing Spider-Man and Men in Black 3. Audiences may want to brace to see those movies in 2D, just in case. MORE: Are Audiences Over 3D Movies? Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98467&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s New 3D Head-Mounted Display Probably Hipper than Viewmaster</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/31/sonys-new-3d-head-mounted-display-probably-hipper-than-viewmaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Sony&#8217;s launching a new 3D head-mounted display, which looks like a pair of goggles you could sit a couple action figures in and take for a pretend Jetson-style spin. Ugly? Check. Cumbersome? Check. Potentially deadly if worn while ambling across the room to pluck an adult beverage from the fridge? Check. Didn&#8217;t we used to call this stuff virtual reality? Oh who cares. We also used to call 3D eyewear the Viewmaster. It&#8217;s the same idea, right? Send two slightly different views of the same image to each eye, creating a stereoscopic effect (the fancy term for deuce images), convincing our brains the image in question has width, height and depth. (PHOTOS: All-TIME 100 Gadgets) Sony&#8217;s new take is called the HMZ-T1, or &#8220;Personal 3D Viewer,&#8221; weighs 420 grams, packs twin 0.7-inch high-definition 1280 x 720 OLED screens (akin to eyeballing a 750-inch movie screen, says Sony), supports up to 45 degrees of tilt and you&#8230;won&#8217;t be able to get your hands on one in November unless you live in Japan. That&#8217;s where it&#8217;s launching November 11 for 60,000 yen ($783 USD). It even has inbuilt headphones that support 5.1 surround playback and they wrap around your face like Geordi La Forge&#8217;s banana-clip visor (except fatter) to fully cover your ears. It has an HDMI port, so you can plug in pretty much anything that supports the connector, from console video game systems to Blu-ray players to Macs and PCs. &#8220;The hardest part for us was to make it as small-sized as possible, while maintaining high definition, but we succeeded,&#8221; Sony vice president Shigeru Kato told Reuters. &#8221;People can enjoy watching a favourite movie or play a videogame on their own without bothering other family members.&#8221; No bother at all, Sony, except for the part where clamping clunky tech-ware on our faces has kind of been a nonstarter for decades. MORE: Are Audiences Over 3D Movies? Matt Peckham is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @mattpeckham or on Facebook. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=95497&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s First No-Glasses 3D Laptop Arrives Next Month</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/05/worlds-first-no-glasses-3d-laptop-arrives-next-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still probing for the point of three-dimensional legerdemain as a grumbler and entertainment snob who&#8217;ll skirt the 3D versions of most things (especially movies), but if you&#8217;re impressed by what seems increasingly like a fad, you can lay hands and eyeballs on the world&#8217;s first no-glasses 3D laptop for just north of $2,000 next month. It has an appropriately trendy name to help persuade your pocketbook—the Qosmio F750, which makes it sound like a cross between a fashion mag (or a cocktail) and a Ford pickup. It can lay claim to the title &#8220;first glasses-free 3D laptop,&#8221; though the world&#8217;s first glasses-free 3D mobile device was technically Nintendo&#8217;s 3DS, released in Japan last February and stateside in March. (LIST: 25 Gotta Have Travel Gadgets) The F750&#8242;s actually unique angle: as Techland editor Doug Aamoth noted in January, it can handle 2D and 3D images simultaneously on its hefty 15.6-inch, 120Hz, 1920 by 1080 pixel display. It lets you to essentially split the screen, rolling something like Avatar in a 3D-enabled window while allowing you to update Twitter or Facebook in another displayed in standard 2D. The other intriguing bit involves the F750&#8242;s webcam, which tracks the position of your eyes, allowing the screen mesh to shift such that the 3D effect is continuous within a broader field of view (we noted from 15 to 20 degrees at CES 2011). That&#8217;s a feature you won&#8217;t find on Nintendo&#8217;s 3DS, and in the latter case it&#8217;s a serious point of contention, since you have to hold Nintendo&#8217;s games portable rock-steady and game within a painfully narrow field of view to maintain the 3D illusion. Having the option to move your head naturally should enhance the sense of viewing images or videos with geometric depth without having to maintain a rigid or unnatural head (and eye) position. Alas, the technology can only handle one viewer at once, meaning you&#8217;re flying solo if you want to pair up for a little 3D movie-watching. Other bits and bobs under the hood include an Intel<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89033&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HTC Evo 3D Review: Average Phone, Cheap Trick</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/28/htc-evo-3d-review-sprint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re thinking about buying the HTC Evo 3D on Sprint, the first thing you should do is ignore the 3D. The phone&#8217;s namesake features &#8212; a glasses-free 3D display and dual cameras to shoot your own 3D content &#8212; amount to little more than a cheap party trick. And with a dearth of 3D movies and games to enjoy on the smartphone, the Evo 3D&#8217;s design and performance in two dimensions is far more important. Strip away the gimmicks, and the Evo 3D is just average among high-end Android handsets. It&#8217;s a phone that provides lots of power through a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, but falters on design. Compared to the graceful curves and smooth materials of HTC&#8217;s newly-launched Sensation 4G, the Evo 3D&#8217;s figure is no triumph. It&#8217;s not uncomfortably large despite a 4.3-inch, 960-by-540 resolution display, but its boxy shape and considerable weight lack elegance. (MORE: HTC Sensation 4G Review: Prettier than Pictures) In the hands, you&#8217;ll always feel the phone&#8217;s camera shutter button, which sticks out from the bottom right side and rests right underneath your palm or fingers. A ridged back panel adds a touch of class, but ultimately this isn&#8217;t a phone that feels great to hold. And don&#8217;t let the Evo 3D&#8217;s size fool you into thinking this is a multimedia powerhouse. The phone&#8217;s single speaker is poorly placed on the back side, projecting in exactly the wrong direction, and it kicks out some of the weakest audio I&#8217;ve ever heard on a high-end handset. Unlike Sprint&#8217;s first-generation Evo, there&#8217;s no kickstand on this model, so forget about propping up the phone to watch some 3D flicks. With 4 GB of internal storage and an 8 GB microSD card, there&#8217;s not a lot of room to store your own music and videos, anyway. The Evo 3D includes a 1730mAh battery, which leans toward the high end for Android phones, but I wasn&#8217;t floored by the battery life. After a day of moderate Internet use, no 4G service and no phone calls, the Evo<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=88356&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Bad News for 3D</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/06/23/more-bad-news-for-3d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pair of new studies paint a dreary picture for 3D, both in movie theaters and at home. First up, a survey by research firm BTIG found that only 36 percent of moviegoers chose the 3D version of The Green Lantern, accounting for 45 percent of box office revenue. That makes The Green Lantern the third major 3D release in a row to fall below the 50 percent revenue line, as Home Media Magazine points out. (The other two are Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides and Kung Fu Panda, with 37 percent and 45 percent of revenue in 3D, respectively.) (MORE: Want to See the World&#8217;s First 3D Porn Flick? Head to Hong Kong) The other bit of research looks to 3D&#8217;s future at home. According to Informa Telecoms &#38; Media, 11 million homes will have 3D TVs by 2016, but less than half of those homes will regularly watch 3D content. &#8220;We do not share the view that 3D represents the obvious next evolutionary step for TV, in the same way that colour followed black and white, or HD is following SD,&#8221; Informa concluded. I don&#8217;t believe anyone can flawlessly predict what will happen with technology five years from now, but Informa&#8217;s theory seems plausible, especially considering what&#8217;s happening in theaters. 3D TV in the home is getting cheaper, which means more consumers will start tacking on 3D as an extra feature. But that doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;ll turn to 3D content on a consistent basis. (MORE: 3D TVs to Get Cheaper as Westinghouse Enters the Fray) As the cooling reception to theatrical 3D shows, people don&#8217;t always want to slip on a pair of heavy glasses and trick their eyes for a couple of hours. It takes a special kind of movie &#8212; say, Tron: Legacy, which generated 70 percent of its theater revenue from 3D &#8212; to get that kind of commitment. The same will be true at home as the amount of available 3D content grows. I&#8217;m not convinced that 3D is uniformly bad, but<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=87848&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forget Theaters, Now Mozilla and YouTube Bring You 3D Home Movies Online</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/27/forget-theaters-now-mozilla-and-youtube-bring-you-3d-home-movies-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 20:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if the downturn on theater ticket sales wasn&#8217;t enough bad news for proponents of upgrading movie theaters for 3D screenings, now comes the news that people can watch 3D movies at home&#8230; via YouTube. Google has teamed with Mozilla and NVIDIA to support YouTube users&#8217; ability to watch stereoscopic 3D videos, supported by a new HTML5-based playback mode for Firefox 4. YouTube has been offering stereoscopic 3D as an option since 2009, but the option was only available to the very few who had 3D-enabled computers. The new partnership allows many, many more users the chance to imagine that things are buffering right in front of their face. 3D project manager at YouTube, Jonathan Huang, is understandably in favor of the partnership: &#8220;We&#8217;re excited to introduce HTML5 and WebM support to the thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube. By embracing these open standards, NVIDIA 3D Vision users now have a great way of experiencing YouTube&#8217;s library of 3D content.&#8221; The idea of 3D YouTube seems like a niche market now, but with the increased availability of 3D cameras in recent years &#8211; this is where NVIDIA comes in &#8211; it&#8217;s a vertical that&#8217;s likely to grow as more and more people decide to try their hand at becoming amateur James Camerons. For those with the ability to view the videos, there&#8217;s a showcase available right here &#8211; For everyone else, all you&#8217;ll see is a duplicated image, and a growing desire to upgrade your system or go out and see Thor for a second time.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=84579&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Earth Updated for Android Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/06/google-earth-updated-for-android-tablets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 23:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amie Ninh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low on the funds to see the Colosseum in person? That’s ok! Instead, just shell out the money for a tablet that runs Android 2.1 or above, keep the change, and take the trip for free through a new Google Earth update. Google launched an Android version of Google Earth last year, but now they’ve optimized the application for tablets. What does the new version bring? Well, for starters, textured 3D buildings have been added to make street view tours even more realistic. A new action bar allows for easier navigation – and the ability to fly to a location. You can even view high-resolution images and user-submitted photos. The service includes layers that can be overlaid, including Places, Panaramio photos and Wikipedia. In a nutshell, it’s the desktop version of Google Earth, except, well, on a tablet, of course. “When we launched Google Earth in 2005, most of us were still using flip phones,” Peter Birch, a Google product manager, wrote in a blog post. “At the time, the thought of being able to cart around 197 million square miles of Earth in your pocket was still a distant dream.” Though last year&#8217;s version made the dream into a reality, the transition to the tablet has enabled Google to take advantage of the larger screen size. Compare it to moving from a regular movie theater screen to an IMAX screen, Birch said. The larger screen does make multi-tasking much easier. Imagine this: flying around the 3D Colosseum while simultaneously browsing photos while eating good ol’ authentic Italian pizza. It’s like you always there (cue wishful thinking). More on TIME.com: Here Come the Cheap Android Tablets 25 Essential Apps for Travelers Sony Announces Two Android Tablets, Including a Dual-Screen Device<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=81163&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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