Netflix is starting to stream a limited slate of 3-D movies – but you’ll only be able to watch if your ISP uses the company’s Open Connect CDN. That way, Netflix is enlisting its customers to move ISPs towards its own content delivery network. Read more »
Like 3-D? Well get ready to research like mad trying to figure out what system will work best. There are seven types of display decoder technologies that deliver stereogrpahic 3-D on 13 platforms including common ones like TVs and cinemas, making for 91 possible combinations. Read more »
Just as the older members of my family are finally getting used to Skype and FaceTime, along comes a 3-D hologram concept project! Dubbed the TeleHuman, the system uses six Microsoft Kinect sensors and a 3-D projector inside a 1.8 meter tall acrylic cylinder. Read more »
Intel has introduced its latest generation of processor cores at 22 nanometers. The new chips are up to 20 percent faster and consume 20 percent less energy, but the biggest news is that these chips are the first that will use Intel’s new 3-D transistors. Read more »
Qualcomm can’t find enough capacity to manufacture chips designed for mobile phones. These troubles will become more common as the physics that govern how we make semiconductors buckles under the demands of our increasingly mobile lives, where we demand low power and high performance. Read more »
Mini Motor Racing and Mini Motor Racing HD are excellent top-down racing games from The Binary Mill. A good racing game requires three main features to come together: vehicle control, a variety of challenging courses and a heart-thumping soundtrack. Plus, it offers great multiplayer gameplay. Read more »
Are you ready to have your own replicator: a device that can create physical objects? It’s here in the form of a 3-D printer, but it’s not cheap and it’s semi-limited. Still, if you can design an object, you can have your printer build it! Read more »
If you’re like many of us, you’re already thinking over some New Year’s resolutions that will make you a better “you” in 2012. But how are the tech industries’ thought leaders approaching the new year? We asked 12 of them for their resolutions. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Netflix may have had plans to expand into the rental market for video games when it tried to spin off its physical disc business last summer, but those plans are now canned. Instead, it may start delivering 3-D movies to its streaming subscribers. Read more »
Want to download a car? Now you can, kind of anyway: The Pirate Bay has started to offer users a way to exchange 3-D designs for physical objects that can be reproduced with 3-D printers. This kind of sharing only complicates the copyright debate. Read more »
On Thursday Apple’s SVP of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, took the stage to talk about education and announced Apple’s ambitious plan to reinvent the textbook. That plan includes iBooks 2, which Schiller called a “new textbook experience for the iPad.” Read more »
Is the PC “dead”? Of course not, but if you don’t see the trend moving away from local / desktop computing and towards mobile / cloud computing, you’re missing the sales figures for each market: Nearly 50 percent of recent device sales are mobile. Read more »
A bad 2-D movie is something you can shrug off, but a bad 3-D movie can make you physically sick, said DreamWorks Animation CTO Ed Leonard at our GigaOM Roadmap conference in San Francisco on Thursday. Still, DreamWorks is very much committed to 3-D. Read more »
The Pirate Bay announced Wednesday morning that it is now in the business of offering 3-D movies, destroying the hopes of Hollywood that 3-D would be something of an automatic piracy deterrent. With prices for 3-D TVs declining, the phenomenon is poised to become more popular. Read more »
THQ is launching Saints Row: The Third at Comic-Con 2011 with a bang, including a giant booth with an adults-only booth show, a pimp dressed all in purple, and a multimedia showcase involving dual-screen 3-D animations introducing the game. Is 3-D ready to be everywhere? Read more »
Autodesk is making its Inventor Publisher Mobile Viewer app available today on Android. The program allows users to view 3-D color instructions of a product, allowing them to pan around and see a step-by-step process of assembly complete with animations. Read more »
MoviePass will soon begin offering a $50 all-you-can-eat monthly subscription video plan that will let users watch any movie they want at any participating movie theater. That might help some cinephiles save money. But will it get more-casual viewers into the seats? Read more »
Samsung is about to knock off Nokia as the top smartphone seller thanks to its calculated Google Android strategy. HTC and LG hope to help their own cause with glasses-free 3-D smartphones. And Swype has a better keyboard for everyone’s Android handsets and tablets. Read more »
LG is continuing its bet on 3-D technology, today announcing availability of its Optimus 3D handset first in Europe and later in 60 other areas around the world. The dual-core handset uses a stereoscopic display, so no 3-D glasses are needed for stills or videos. Read more »
The “uncanny valley”– the quality of an animation or robot looking close to, but not exactly like, real life — may be set to get even smaller. MIT researchers have developed new computing techniques for reproducing the slight natural blur of moving objects in animation. Read more »
At the IEEE Technology Time Machine Symposium last week I listened to the world’s leading academics, engineers, executives, and government officials project what the world will look like in 2020. The future brings technology together for everything from enhancing the human experience to improving environmental sustainability. Read more »
Improved glasses-free 3-D screens could arrive on smartphones and other handheld devices based on HR3D, a dynamic new visual system developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The screens will also work at wide viewing angles and have the potential to save battery life. Read more »
Today on the Net: More evidence that 3-D films are bad for us, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos claims that Time Warner hates it because it’s going to try to steal Warner Bros. movies away from HBO and Epix is building an app for connected TVs. Read more »
Consumer electronics companies have invested heavily to make 3-D TV a success. But the more consumers use the technology, the less likely they are to buy, with 60 percent of North American survey respondents saying they won’t buy a 3DTV set in the next year. Read more »
Today on the Net: Disney could make billions with its Netflix deal, but other studios have declared war against the subscription service. Also: 3-D TVs just don’t sell and BitTorrent fans can download the second episode of Pioneer One. Read more »
As it has with other technologies, Apple may hold the key to help bring 3-D technology to the masses. Apple has been awarded a patent on a new auto-stereoscopic 3-D projection system that allows multiple viewers to watch 3-D content without glasses. Read more »
In India, Spice Mobility is offering the a 3-D handset that requires no special glasses. The M-67 3D costs Rs 4,299 ($97 US) and uses an auto-stereoscopic display. India may be late to the 3G wireless game, but is it leading the way to 3-D phones? Read more »
Some bad news for consumer electronics manufacturers: 3-D TV is not taking off as quickly as expected. According to DisplaySearch, 3-D TV makers have been pushing the technology hard and making new products widely available, but to little avail, as consumer uptake has been limited. Read more »
Today on the Net: Netflix confirms that it is now available on 200 different consumer electronics devices with 60 million units sold in 2010, Blockbuster is looking for a new CEO after Jim Keyes ran it into the ground and 3-D TV sales disappoint. Read more »
If 3-D is ever going to become more than a way for Hollywood to inflate box office returns, the technology for creating content has to become more accessible. In this interview, Panasonic’s Jan Crittenden Livingston demonstrates the AG-3DA1, the world’s first integrated twin-lens 3-D camcorder. Read more »
3-D isn’t just for sports and movies anymore: Close to 35,000 people watched what was billed as the world’s first 3-D live concert in Europe yesterday. The event was captured with five live-optimized 3-D cameras, and required a broadcast staff of more than 100 people. Read more »
Today on the Net: an analyst estimates that NBC Universal is worth negative $600 million while USA Network is worth $11.7 billion, broadcasters like NBC are holding back the available ad inventory for sale on Hulu and Imax’s CEO says not every 3-D movie will work. Read more »
Hollywood studios are riding high on record box office receipts, despite the lowest attendance in five years. Those record revenues are mostly the result of higher ticket prices for 3-D and other premium films showings, but come as theaters have raised prices for nearly all films. Read more »
Today on the Net: American cable subscribers dropped for the first time but execs say it’s due to the economy, Cisco’s Eos video platform is powering the London Olympics site and the BBC isn’t ready to back a 3-D technology quite yet. Read more »
I think the 3-D apocalypse might be coming. And here is one of the four horsemen: According to Deadline.com, Paramount Pictures will be telling the tale of teen star Justin Bieber’s life story on the big screen in 3-D. Read more »
Online video startup Break Media wants to get ahead of the curve on 3-D. It’s now investing heavily in the technology with the launch of a new channel, a slate of new programming, and the creation of 3-D ad units for sponsors. Read more »
YouTube will launch 3-D videos on the PlayStation 3 over the next year, a Sony exec says. While talking about the PS3′s future, Sony studio director Mick Hocking said an upcoming firmware update to the PS3 would enable the game console to support 3-D YouTube streams. Read more »
Today on the Net: Panasonic is adding online video-on-demand services to its connected HDTVs, Cisco wants to strike a deal with NBC to distribute Flip cameras to Olympic athletes again and Sony wants to be tops in 3-D TV sales, despite a slow start. Read more »
Today on the Net: More rumors about Hulu’s subscription and mobile device plans emerge, Mozilla commits to adding WebM support in the next version of Firefox and AT&T U-verse adds ESPN 3-D ahead of the World Cup, making it the third affiliate to do so. Read more »
