Alright, this just blew my mind a little. Not so much that I’m left a catatonic husk, though – I can still type. Lucky you. Anyway, Sony has filed two patents (bada boom, bada bing) that, when combined, reveal the secret to local multiplayer gaming like ain’t never been seen before. Actually, it will technically never be seen, even once it’s implemented. We’re all familiar with how 3D works, right? Alternating frames, left and right, illusion of depth, all that jazz. I won’t insult your intelligence. Sony has filed patents that dare threaten to take the concept to the next level – offering the end…

As 3D pushes its way ever-further into our living rooms like male bedbugs practicing traumatic insemination, we huddle in fear at the looming need to eventually shell out, like, 200 bucks for 3D glasses that will operate with our particular television. Or will we? 3D gurus XpanD say no, and to back it up have released the X103 active shutter glasses, which are allegedly operable with any and all 3DTVs. “Once you have a 3D TV channel the glasses receive a signal, for the next three-to-five seconds they scan the signal and when they find which wave that TV is on they sync in,” says XpanD CEO Maria Costeira…

3D Gaming will be coming to your door a lot sooner than we all expected. NVidia and Asus have announced three new 3D computers this week, with a game-ready laptop adding another dimension to the gaming world in Taipei. Asus has unveiled its 3D lineup with the G51Jx-EE 3D gaming laptop, as well as the Eee Top ET2400 and CD5390 tower based PC. All three of these machines will ship with 120Hz displays, active shutter 3D glasses, and discrete graphics processors from NVidia. The 3D Vision active shutter glasses from NVidia shipped with the gaming ready PC erase the need for an external IR emitter to be running…

Here’s some advice. Take the next five years to really get the most out of your binocular vision. Climb a tree. Play baseball. Do that thing where you put your hand in front of your face and wink back and forth for awhile. Trust me, you’ll miss it when it’s gone. According to the Taiwanese Industrial Technology Research Institute, glasses-free 3DTV will be the hip new tech by 2015, and this week they demonstrated a 45-inch model showcasing the technology. It wasn’t exactly ready for primetime, but impressed nonetheless. Apparently, they can go as big as 65 inches. Stephen Jeng, director of 3D systems…

I want to make clear that I don’t dislike Sony, but you have to admit, this could be called a dick move. To help usher the 3D craze into our living rooms, the tech giant is launching a campaign featuring ‘fake’ 3D, intended for 2D televisions. “Do not adjust your set”, says the ad, before douchily (if that wasn’t a word, it is now) suggesting “maybe it’s time to get a 3D TV”. Ad agency Anomaly, who produced the campaign, are unsurprisingly unapologetic. Said Paul Graham, co-founder of the agency: “Unless you give viewers a bit of a jolt, a wake up, if you can’t make a serious impact then it is just another…

Man, you continually have to give Japan credit – now it’s got its sights on the World Cup, and those sights are in 3D. When I say ‘World Cup’ I mean ’2022′, and when I say ’3D’, I mean ‘holograms’. Yes, as in help-me-Obi-Wan-Kenobi-you’re-my-only-hope holograms, should the technology allow. Japan has promised that should it have a successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup, fans will get to experience the games in glorious 3D all over the world via 200 HD cameras encircling the stadium and, if we’re there by 2022, that 3D will be projected onto pitches of over 400 stadiums worldwide, allowing for a practically…

‘Why do you hate it?’, a friend of mine asked a couple days ago. ‘Hate what?’ ‘3D.’ She looked almost personally offended. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ Before I type my answer to her question, you have to understand that I’m part of a dwindling minority. We, the stubborn few purists, content to live our cinematic experiences without the crutch of a Z-axis. As the third dimension further pushes its way into every corner of entertainment, we find ourselves with fewer and fewer allies; my once similarly-embittered friends trickle into an IMAX screening of the current animated blockbuster,…

A couple of years ago, after much delay, I finally got my own HDTV. Even got a PS3 to go with it too. It was glorious. Stupendous, even. Blu-Rays and HD channels practically jumped off the screen and smacked me in the face. Games looked lifelike. I, like, was Nathan Drake, man. So, with the arrival of 3D-TV, we can expect similarly superlative results, right? A mind-blowing difference in the quality of our home-theatre experience? Nope. 3D-TV is a half-baked technology yet to reach maturity and it is now being foisted on unsuspecting consumers. They will be sold the line that 3D is the next must-have…

Uh oh. Move over, TV Hat. In stark contrast to the less-than-marvellous device I mentioned earlier, it seems Apple is also entering the personal viewing experience arena with a device fans are already calling the iSpecs. It would seem Apple fans are just as adept at naming products as Apple themselves. Be that as it may, looks like these are shaping up to be the first personal-theater-goggle-doodads that may stand up to a Segway level of ridicule and come out on top. And these are even 3D-capable, no less. Basically, they work like your old Viewmaster, without the reels. Each eye is given a screen,…

This, one imagines, is the mentality behind Sony’s new promotion in Europe, in which you get 4 free 3D video games when you buy a new Sony Bravia 3D TV. I  mean, a few years after we all just bought HDTV’s, companies are going to need some incentive if they want people to upgrade yet again. Of course, it’s important not to let the really important news be forgotten here: 3D video games are arriving in just a couple of months! 3D (according to the people pushing it) seems to be among the next big thing in gaming, with at least Sony’s PS3 and Nintendo’s forthcoming Nintendo 3DS supporting the new Avatar-inspired…