June 10, 2011, electronic entertainment Expo, Los Angeles—Nintendo celebrated 25 years of the Legend of Zelda franchise and introduced a number of titles and developers. They stated their intention to bring more people into the gaming community by announcing the next generation Wii, to be called Wii U. The complete presentation and announcements are available [...]
June 10, 2011, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles—Sony invited 6,000 of their closest friends to a party and introduced the lineup for the next buying season and next year. You can find a plethora of videos of their news conference online so this article will just summarize some key highlights and comment upon them. Sony’s [...]
June 11, 2011, Electronic Entertainment Expo—amid all of the sounds of games playing and the crowds of people waiting in lines for a chance to try out the latest hardware and software, some trends seem to appear. The world in becoming more connected and game performance seems to have hit a plateau. Everything is now [...]
May 23, 2011, Churchill Club, Santa Clara, CA—the Churchill Club held their 13th annual technology forecast. This session looks at the developments most likely to become significant in the next three years. The forecast panel consisted of moderator Tony Perkins, founder of Always On, and panelists Steve Jurvetson, managing director from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Ajay [...]
May 17, 2011, SID, Los Angeles—Shuji Nakamura, professor at UCSB described his efforts to realize high-output white solid state lamps and lasers. His is a historical perspective and the current status is for bright prospects. Nakamura spent most of his professional career working on LEDs and laser diodes. Italy’s been pursuing emitters in like bands [...]
May 17, 2011, Society for Information Display, Los Angeles—Phil McNally, who calls himself “Captain 3-D” is a stereoscopic supervisor at DreamWorks Animation. He talked about his transition form 3-D as a hobby into 3-D as his career. McNally is now a stereo supervisor at DreamWorks and finds that stories authored in 3-D are enhanced by [...]
May 17, 2011, Society for Information Display, Los Angeles—Yashiro Koike, professor at Keio University in Japan espoused on the possibilities for overwhelmingly realistic face-to-face communications based on polymer technologies. The need for greater bandwidth requires ongoing research into polymers. Currently, computer users interact with their machines through displays and keyboards. The technology is available to [...]
