Wii Sports Boxing, Meet The Z Cam
February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This IGN video is a good taste of what the ZCam from 3DV Systems is all about. However, the videos on their site show the broad conceptual usage of such a device. Basically, this camera has full 3D sensing capability at 60 fps. Additionally, it has depth cut off, so you can configure it to ignore things beyond a certain depth of field.
Some big player will buy this company and their technology. The only question is who? Microsoft? Sony? Nintendo? Sony already has the Eye Toy, but this steps the game up to another level. Nintendo is clearly interested in innovative control with everything they are pushing both with the Wii and the DS. However, I think Microsoft will jump on this. The XBox has not dipped into this market yet at all. Plus, the videos show tons of Windows Vista applications and PC integration. I think this is an almost inevitable acquisition.
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M3 DS Simply for Nintendo DS
September 13, 2007 | 7 Comments
A while ago I stumbled upon this site which eventually lead me to check out the M3 DS Simply for Nintendo DS.
This device is marketed with the following features:
~ The same size as an original DS cart
~ Built in PassMe (No need for boot card or anything else to boot )
~ Using Micro SD card (Trans Flash) as external storage. Cheap & variety usage
~ Boot clean dump images
~ Super simple to use , drag and files over to the micro SD card (No drivers required)
~ Standard FAT system support
~ Support different speed of micro SD card even the low speed SD card .Run games without any lag or slow down
~ upgradeable Firmware ( OS / Bios / Kernel )
~ Touch screen control & robust skinning support
~ No need battery , back up the save file into the micro SD card directly .Never lose your save
~ Auto detect the save type & automatic generate saver file
~ Homebrew support , IO lib will release on launch
~ Direct watch movie , listen MP3 & read TXT on the DS via the use of Moonshell
~ Support WiFi, DS rumble pack & DS browser
This was enough to intrigue me, so I picked up the M3 DS Simply w/ 1GB Micro SD Card for $79.95 plush $6.99 shipping. In retrospect, I’d have been better of getting the M3 DS Simply without the microSD card ($59.95) and buying that part from Amazon, where the 2GB microSD card is only $22.99.
I have to say, after playing with this thing a bit, it is freaking amazing. Anything you could reasonably desire it to accomplish, it gets done easily. This thing is crazy amounts of fun, highly recommended.
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