{"id":966,"date":"2011-03-08T17:25:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T16:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2022-08-08T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:32:54","slug":"nintendo-3ds-and-the-useless-useful-3d-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/nintendo-3ds-and-the-useless-useful-3d-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo 3DS and the useless\/useful 3D view"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-body-7688954467366529138\" class=\"post-body entry-content\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/st.depositphotos.com\/2380107\/5107\/i\/600\/depositphotos_51072547-stock-photo-3d-logo-isolated-on-white.jpg\" alt=\"3d Foto Stock, 3d Immagini | Depositphotos\" width=\"223\" height=\"183\">I was reading this article on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/#!5778668\/nintendo-wont-back-down-on-3dit-makes-games-easier-to-feel\">Gizmodo<\/a>&nbsp;and had an epiphany: third dimension &#8220;revolution&#8221; is or it&#8217;s not comparable to the color vs B&amp;W revolution in visual arts?<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">If we consider gaming part of visual art, i think it is. But i don&#8217;t think 3D is such a big deal as it stands for movies and photography.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">But thinking about gaming industry and as a gamer, i think it will provide much more involvment (as if it was required!) when playing a game and if really used well it could potentially even add much more gameplay (think about Ecochrome played in 3D!). But the problem is that i recogn today the usage of 3d in gaming is comparable to the usage of 3d in movies: it&#8217;s a useless eye-candy that soon we&#8217;ll get tired of. &nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">What do i mean with &#8220;more gameplay&#8221;? check this video and figure out yourselves! \ud83d\ude42 When last year they have announced Nintendo 3DS i was hoping that it would be ike this:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\">\n<div class=\"separator\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h5QSclrIdlE?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">the amazing thing of the above game it that it simply uses head tracking technology (using the DS front cam) to locate user&#8217;s head and therefore render the 3d scene accordingly&#8230;like watching a landscape from a window where the window is the actual screen. It&#8217;s just like the &#8220;head tracking&#8221; prototype that Johnny Chung Lee developed a couple of years ago using a wii sensor bar:<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jd3-eiid-Uw?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Furthermore, look at what it can be done with the sole use of a Gyroscope, without any head tracking front-facing camera:<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NvCHHUN8nnE?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"320\" height=\"266\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Bottom line is: the technology is out there. We just need to hope someone brings it all together and mass-produces it. A portable device with front camera and GPS. Wait a minute&#8230; that&#8217;s the iPhone4!! And that&#8217;s the Ninendo 3DS, too (even with 3D screen switched off!).&nbsp;So, dear APP developers, why don&#8217;t you do yourself a favor and start creating REAL 3d applications???<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this article on&nbsp;Gizmodo&nbsp;and had an epiphany: third dimension &#8220;revolution&#8221; is or it&#8217;s not comparable to the color vs B&amp;W revolution in visual arts? If we consider gaming part of visual art, i think it is. But i don&#8217;t think 3D is such a big deal as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[62,59,60,61,58,63,64],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3d.webp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuelmontanari.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}