Nintendo 3DS officially announced

[Limewater]

Plus the older stereoscopic concept had to separate each eye to each screen to achieve the 3D effect.

Believe it or not, you don't actually need the barrier. If you go back to the sample stereogram image you posted (the black-and-white one) and adjust your eyes properly, it renders a single 3D image. The partition used to separate the images in old stereograms just made adjusting your eyes easier. Those old "magic eye" images worked on the same principle, though they only used a single image and did not require your eyes to cross quite as much.

Incidentally, there's actually a 3D stereogram mod for Quake II. You can see screenshots of it here:

http://www.leweyg.com/download/SIRD/q2/ ... ml#screens

[CRTGAMER]

If it's going to do 2D+depth the only way that I can think it being able to achieve this is through a parallax barrier. Is there any other proven consumer technology that works without glasses?

Maybe the 3D version with the split screens, as Limewater pointed out could be a stereogram or stereoscopic image?

There were PS1 CD Jewel cases with front ridges that would trick your eyes. Not 3D though.
Title page of game booklet with ridged jewel of Crash and Shipwreckers comes to mind.

It'll be interesting to see what Nintendo has in mind, especially if its "Eyeglass free".
A ridged touch screen or dual layer DVD concept, except for the eyes to focus?

Or, the label on the gold Zelda: Majora's Mask

I bet/hope there is a limited edition version of the 3DS that looks like a virtual boy
(much like an NES edition gameboy Advance)

Some interesting ideas, part of the fun. BlackDS suggestion about "Nintendo Virtua Boy Anniversary Edition" got me thinking.
Another 3D concept using that old V-Boy eye headache mirror effect? That would be one Origami Setup to make it a portable!

[BlackDS]

Did you even look at the list I linked to? every game on that list stomps all over the garbage on PSP and DS.

I'm really getting tired of this forum, nobody researches anything, they just blurt out the first thing that pops into their head and never want to hear any different.

[CRTGAMER]

Quid pro qou, seems like someone above "doesn't want to hear anything different".

Not real conclusions just poking at concepts, have some fun at it.

[Pulsar_t]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/paral ... ms-article

[BlackDS]

Ok, who else is gonna bet that there is a 3ds-xl?
I am on a roll with these kinda things

No seriously, there are going to be soo many versions of the DS by this christmas.

DS lite (if they still make those by then )
DSi
DSi XL
3DS

I hope they just drop the DSi line and go with DS lite (the budget console, like the when nintendo released the NES 2 for peeps who didn't want an SNES), and the 3DS, but thats not gonna happen.

[Pulsar_t]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/nint ... nemy-of-t/

Fascinating

[CRTGAMER]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/nint ... nemy-of-t/

Fascinating

Rings true, not just Apple competetion though. Portable gaming will eventually be regulated to convenient always with you cell phone.

[ZeroAX]

Rings true, not just Apple competetion though. Portable gaming will eventually be regulated to convenient always with you cell phone.

if they add some buttons back to smart phones it might. As we have seen from the Wii, hardcore genres that don't work well with the new input, don't translate to good games. And the Wii remote at least has a stick and some buttons. the iphone has nothing other than the touch screen. and the on screen buttons are a dumb solution imo.

the iphone is the greatest phone for gaming, but that doesn't make it worthy of being someone's sole handheld, or even console. For years I never owned a console after my first one, and instead always owned Gameboys (GB classic, GB color, GBA) and I was really happy with the games they provided me with. I really doubt someone who plays games for more than 5 minutes a time, can satisfy his gaming "needs" with only an iphone alone. But for casual players, and I mean REALLY CASUAL, not Wii-DS crowd, talking about facebook-farmville crowd, yeah the iphone is the only thing they need..... oh wait..... and a machine that supports flash

[AmishSamurai]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/nint ... hankfully/

So Engadget is still convinced they're using the Parallax barrier, and evidently it can switch between 2d and 3d.