(31-05-2012 20:56)mike link Una nueva patente. ¿¿un lápiz especial para 3DS??



- uses the 3DS console's inner-facing camera along with a stylus
- allows you to manipulate 3D images on the top screen
- inward-facing camera detects a 'marker' applied to the end of a stylus
- the 3DS can calculate the marker's position in 3D space based on its size and position
- by moving the stylus further away, the object could appear to 'come out' of the screen
- move the stylus nearer and the object would appear to move deeper into the 3D space
- you could also use this system with the outer camera
- includes a new kind of stylus with a vibration function
- also includes a marker allowing it to be tracked by the 3DS camera
- you can also place the market on your finger

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"[url forgetthebox[/url]"]With such a crazy New Year, the last thing I expected to hear was anything about the Wii U. My good friend in Los Angeles who works for a software developer claims Nintendo approached them and offered them assistance in porting and publishing some software from iOS to the Wii U so it can be played on the Wii UÔÇÖs touchscreen controller. Due to non-disclosure agreements, I canÔÇÖt get into full details of what was discussed because it would reveal my source.

Strangely, it wasnÔÇÖt him talking about games that grabbed my interest. It was hearing that Nintendo is planning to launch a digital e-reader type service where you can download books, magazines, newspapers, comics, and other publications to your Wii U console. These publications would stream to your Wii U controllerÔÇÖs touchscreen, and you could go lay in your bed or couch and read them. The touch screen would be used to flip through pages of an e-book or magazine, and there would even be a searchable index.

My source also told me that people with a 3DS will share the Wii UÔÇÖs e-reader service, and it will be able to download books, magazines, newspapers, and comic books too. You can zoom in and out of text and graphics. Nintendo wants Wii U and 3DS to share certain services the same way Iphone/Ipad share services.

Nintendo has also talked about possibly making electronic versions of their official strategy guides which were called ÔÇ£Players GuidesÔÇØ available for download for virtual console games. Most of these official player guides are no longer in print, and the games are old, which is why Nintendo is thinking of making these official player guides available for free to gamers. While you play a game like Super Mario World on your television, you could flip through a free official Nintendo players guide on the Wii U controllerÔÇÖs touchscreen. Nintendo might also let Prima games, who is their official partner for strategy guides, make strategy guides available for modern or future released games. But the Prima official strategy guides will cost money unlike the Nintendo official strategy guides.

Also, Nintendo is looking into having electronic instruction booklets made available for virtual console games that you download. These would be electronic versions of the instruction booklets that would be packaged into older SNES or N64 games, and you could flip through them on your Wii U controller.

Nintendo is actively seeking publishers to bring electronic versions of popular magazines to the Wii U in the future. A wide variety of these magazines are related to sports, politics, technology, entertainment, celebrities, music, cooking, and fashion. If you already have a subscription to a specific magazine, the Wii U has the ability to automatically download the latest issue as soon as itÔÇÖs available even if the system is turned off and youÔÇÖre asleep.

After hearing about this, it made me wonder if we could ever see Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, or Maxim on the Wii U controllerÔÇÖs touchscreen.

Another interesting part of this story is that Nintendo is interested in making every single issue of Nintendo Power (from 1988 to currently) available for download to be read on the Wii UÔÇÖs touchscreen controller. Nintendo Power has a pretty large archive of issues that would give gamers a huge nostalgia trip. I have not heard how Nintendo plans to price books, magazines, or newspapers.

The common thing IÔÇÖm hearing from those in the industry is that the Wii U will be more focused on services. Nintendo wants Wii U to be used by everyone in the family, and that means creating useful services for non gamers. I think it will be interesting to see how companies such as Amazon and Apple will respond to Nintendo trying to take a bite out of the e-book market.

"[url GamesIndustryz[/url]"]In terms of how we see the next-gen Xbox panning out based on what our own sources tell us, we understand that Kinect is set for a significant upgrade and has a very strong likelihood of ending up bundled with the machine. It is understood that Microsoft hosted a developer soiree at Disneyland just after E3 this year where the platform holder invited partners to pitch in with ideas on where they would want the technology to go, and the challenges they had with the current platform. This signifies that it was early days for the design just a few months ago, making the 2012 story seem even less likely.

It's also believed that Microsoft will continue its successful two SKU strategy, and indeed take it much further with its new platform: a pared down machine is to be released as cheaply as possible, and positioned more along the lines of a set-top box (the use of 360 as a Netflix viewing platform in the US is colossal) and perhaps as a Kinect-themed gaming portal, while a more fully-featured machine with optical drive, hard disk and backward compatibility aimed at the hardcore would be released at a higher price-point.

"[url eurogamer[/url]"]One development source told Eurogamer that Kinect 2 will be so powerful it will enable games to lip read, detect when players are angry, and determine in which direction they are facing.

Kinect 2 can track the pitch and volume of player voices and facial characteristics to measure different emotional states.

The current Kinect is hamstrung by having to pass data to the Xbox 360 through ageing USB technology - an issue discussed by Eurogamer last year.

When Kinect launched in November 2010 the depth sensor was set at a 30 frames per second limit and a 320x240 resolution limit. The issue relates to the USB controller interface, which is capable of around 35MB/s, but it only uses around 15/16MB/s. This artificial limit is in place because multiple USB devices can be used at once on an Xbox 360.

"[url http://uk.gamespot.com/special_feature/2012-predictions/image-feature/index.html[/url]"]If the rumors are to be believed, the guts of the new Xbox, presumably some kind of insane multicore CPU and crazy powerful graphics chipset, will be teased nice and early as part of Microsoft's final showing at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. Expect it to be properly revealed, with a name and everything, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in early June. If that timing is accurate, it seems likely that we'll see it in stores by the 2013 holiday season.

But what of the box itself? Given Microsoft's recent efforts at unification across its Windows, Mobile, and Xbox product lines, it seems clear that the 720 or whatever they end up calling it (surely not that) will be the ultimate personification of that strategy. There are strong signs suggesting that, like with Nintendo's Wii U, a tablet component figures heavily into the new design. That saucy Windows 8 Metro interface (now also seen on the Xbox Dashboard) just begs to be touched. Speculation as to the form it will take has been rife for the past few months, with some even suggesting that the core of the new platform will be akin to a tablet PC that wirelessly connects to a base station, which in turn plugs into your TV. If this is the case, a premium Xbox Next setup could feasibly include a base station, a tablet, a conventional controller of some kind, and the recently discussed high-def evolution of the Kinect. Thank goodness for wireless connections if that's the case; otherwise, we're in for one hell of a mess of cables.

"[url IGN[/url]"]Following initial reports from tech blogs Fudzilla and SemiAccurate, our sources have confirmed that mass production of the system's GPU will indeed begin by the end of 2012 but will not, however, be based on AMD's 7000 series Southern Islands GPU. Instead, the processor will be derived from the 6000 series, which was introduced last year. More specifically, it will be akin to the Radeon HD 6670, which offers support for DirectX11, multidisplay output, 3D and 1080p HD output. The chip currently has a market price of upwards of $79.99.

In real terms, the Xbox 720's raw graphics processing power is expected to be six times that of the Xbox 360 and will yield 20-percent greater performance than Nintendo's forthcoming console, the Wii U.

"[url kotaku[/url]"]Microsoft will upgrade its disc technology for its next Xbox from DVDs to Blu-Ray discs, catching up to rival Sony, games industry sources tell Kotaku.

Sony's PlayStation 3 currently supports Blu-Ray, which can contain 25 or 50GB of data compared to DVD's 9GB.

But that disc detail could be far less impactful to the next generation of game consoles than the assertion I've heard from one reliable industry source that Microsoft intends to incorporate some sort of anti-used game system as part of their so-called Xbox 720.
It's not clear if that means that the system wouldn't play used games or how such a set-up would work. Obvious approachesÔÇöI'm theorizing hereÔÇölike linking a copy of a game to a specific Xbox Live account could seemingly be foiled by used-game owners who would keep their system offline. My source wasn't sure how Microsoft intended to implement any anti-used game system in the new machine.

A push in any way by Microsoft against used games would likely be cheered from publishers sick of seeing retailers like GameStop crow about their revenues from the sale of used games. But it could potentially anger consumers who rely on buying cheaply-sold used games or even pass games to relatives or friends.

One source familiar with Microsoft's plans for the new Xbox said Microsoft plans to ship their new Xbox with a new version of its red-hot Kinect hands-free sensor system. The new Kinect would contain an on-board processor, a feature originally intended for the first Kinect. That processor would enable a new Kinect to more effectively detect users' motions.

I'm also hearing that Microsoft is interested in making a smaller controller for its new console.

And what of gaming site IGN's report that the machine could be six times more powerful than the Xbox 360? From some industry sources I'm hearing that that's the right ballpark and that Microsoft is estimating they might even get to 8x the Xbox 360. But another insider clarified that no one in the industry has development kits yet and that any talk about specs right now is still hypothetical.

"[url kotaku[/url]"]The PlayStation 4 will not use Sony's Cell processor nor any possible successor to the vaunted chipset that was introduced to the world through the PlayStation 3, gaming industry sources tell Kotaku.

What we're hearing from sources follow a Forbes rumor last week that chip-maker AMD would make the graphics chip for a PS4, a shift from the PS3's use of a graphics chip from AMD rival Nvidia.

The abandonment of the Cell architecture would thrill the many game developers who have struggled with the complex chipset, but it could also be viewed as the admission of a mistake.

But with no Cell or Cell successor in the PS4, what would Sony do? Here's where the reporting turns to speculation. One theory I've heard is that AMD will provide both the CPU and GPU for the PS4, meaning that AMD, not Sony, would engineer the main processing and graphics chips for the machine. Should AMD be doing that, they could go with the AMD Fusion architecture, which puts CPU and GPU on the same chip. AMD has already been putting chips like this out (one was considered for the MacBook Air), which would enable Sony to turn to developers and say: you could be working with the PS4 architecture right now; just work on an AMD Llano chip or something. Would developers like that? They'd have to prefer it to Cell andÔÇöwhat do you knowÔÇöhere's one of gaming history's best programmers, id's John Carmack, saying in an interview with PC Perspective last year that AMD Fusion-style chip architecture is "almost a forgone conclusion" for the future of computing.

Cita:¿Ves? Te lo dije xD EA y Valve están planteándose lo de Wii U.

Cita:[quote author="Indyana"][quote author="EarthBound"]¿Ves? Te lo dije xD EA y Valve están planteándose lo de Wii U.

Cita:Ya veremos en lo que queda el online de WiiU.

Hay muchísimas incógnitas para una máquina que previsiblemente le queda un año o menos para lanzarse al mercado.

Cita:Aqui te dejo la noticia que postée en meri Indyana: http://zonaforo.meristation.com/foros/v ... ?t=1835604

Cita:I sitll want to make better graphics, but I think we're past the curve there. All the top-line games really do look good; I think there's still one more step we can take...but I don't think we have many of those steps left.

Cita:Tú céntrate en hacer un buen juego de Doom IV y luego, si se tercia, nos cuentas tus fantasías : ::