Big Japanese brands readying 3-D flat-screen TVs

Japan's big-name electronic manufacturers are readying flat-screen TVs that can show high-definition movies and video games in 3-D for launch next year.

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'Monsters vs. Aliens' gets 3D Super Bowl promo

Talk about a monster of a promotion.

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First NFL game in 3-D fumbles, then recovers

The first NFL game broadcast to theaters live in 3-D fumbled, then recovered Thursday night.

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Get your glasses: 3D poised to take over movies

If Dreamworks Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg is right, you'll soon be out shopping for the latest in designer glasses. 3D glasses that is.

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Hyundai offers 3D TV for Japan market only

Badminton matches look so real playing on Hyundai's new 3-D TV that you may reflexively dodge the virtual shuttlecock. A polar bear pawing the glass of his tank may seem to be inside the TV pushing on the screen.

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Sony has formally announced plans to bring true 3D gaming to the PlayStation 3.

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The original Mandelbrot is an amazing object that has captured the public's imagination for 30 years with its cascading patterns and hypnotically colourful detail.

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To be clear, Fox isn't getting off cheaply; when all is said and done it's going to be on the hook for at least a couple hundred million dollars in production and marketing costs. If the flick fails, it will hurt.

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DreamWorks has tapped scribe Laeta Kalogridis to adapt the Japanese manga property "Ghost in the Shell." DreamWorks is making the futuristic police thriller as a 3D live-action film.

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Sony announced a new 3D display prototype that viewers can look at from all sides. Sony calls it therefore a 360 degree 3D display. The new 3D display will be unveiled this week on October 22nd at the Digital Content Expo 2009 in Tokyo.

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I have said it before, I am looking forward to watching 3D movies and TV shows in my home, but the caveat is that the 3D has to look good. I'm talking movie theater caliber 3D, not that junk like NBC pulled on Chuck.

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By breaking the human genome into millions of pieces and reverse-engineering their arrangement, researchers have produced the highest-resolution picture ever of the genome's three-dimensional structure.

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Sony seems to put a lot of emphasis on 3D, as far as the future direction of their TV and optical media divisions is concerned.

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Give it up for *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* in 3D! (Viewer response)

Thus far in 2009, I've seen the following 3D movies: *My Bloody Valentine*, *Monsters vs. Aliens*, *Up*, and *Ice Age 3*. *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* is the best of the lot thus far, while *Up* was the most disappointing because it's mostly 2D depth animation.

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Because we are completely out of new ideas, Night of The Living Dead will be remade again, but in CG 3D. It's an origins story and Romero is not involved.

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What most of us do is identify with the character -- and how can you identify with a character you can't see, a character who usually doesn't even talk or have any opinions about the horrible things going on around him? This goes back to the "silent hero" dilemma that has …

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We don't have any trouble coping with three dimensions – or four at a pinch. The 3D world of solid objects and limitless space is something we accept with scarcely a second thought. Time, the fourth dimension, gets a little trickier.

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A movie revolution will take place at the end of the year - potentially offering as big a leap in our viewing experience as the change from black-and-white television to colour.

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SIGGRAPH 2009 is currently underway in New Orleans, bringing together some of the world's best digital artists, developers, and computer researchers together to show off the latest in computer graphics and interfaces.

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Pretty neat: a YouTube engineer is playing around with the addition of 3D viewing capabilities to web videos on the insanely popular video destination site, reports Search Engine Roundtable.

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What if there were a machine that not only had free open-source schematics, cheap and easy to buy component materials, but it could also be made on demand for you as a clone of and from a copy of itself? Well, it exists – a real-life self-replicating factory.

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We possess the heart of an early adopter but the wallet and wary sensibility of a cautious consumer. And so it seems we find ourselves with a bad case of gadget lust. Here's a look at nine devices that we know we don't need ... and yet we really really want.

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We already knew 3D porn was on it's way (whether you like it or not), but Current has gone deep inside this issue to find out just how future porn will be virtually poking you in the eye.

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CGTalk is the forum from CGSociety. This is a great place where great CG artists like to show their work. This article rounds up 20 breathtaking realistic CG portraits by CGSociety.

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Guinea Pig sporting action title G-Force and Wii mini-game collection Toy Story Mania will both ship with 3D support

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Google on Tuesday released software called O3D to bring accelerated 3D graphics to browsers, a significant effort but not the only one to try to endow Web applications with some of the computing muscle that PC programs can use.

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The Khronos Group, the organization behind OpenGL, is teaming up with Mozilla to create a vendor-neutral standard for 3D graphics in the browser. They intend to bring a subset of the OpenGL API to JavaScript so that it can be used in web applications.

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Animation bigwig Jeffrey Katzenberg is talking about a revolution.

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COPENHAGEN - PHYSICIANS at Thy-Mors hospital in Denmark and IBM have developed patient record software that uses a three-dimensional computer model of the human anatomy to visualise a patient's medical information.

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