Archive for June, 2009

If your still interested in augmented reality then check this out

Here is a site that has some augmented reality showcase videos that you might want to check out it’s interesting what might be in store for your next gen sun glasses >.<

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Augmented reality for your android/ipod touch

original post here SPRXMobile

LightScribe

LightScribe is a specific rom drive that allows direct labeling of discs. Now there is not too much new about it at the moment except that the company has released newer color media disc’s for your prints :D . For me and some others at least im sure, that’s pretty epic. The prints yes, will still be monochromatic but now, you get different color disc wooo! Currently the reason for this post would be that im using LS for this event ticket project in my Graphics Design Two class, whereas my tickets are actually the cd’s where ive used light scribe to imprint the information as in the time, and place etc etc. Fairly useful and pretty nifty tech to have [=. Alas, I digress, it’s pretty useful and if you’re bored and or into the ocd that sometimes is labeling and design of your cd’s then give it a look and or a try! http://www.lightscribe.com/

Gamespot Fueling the Fanboy wars?

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Gamespot secretly fueling the fanboy wars?  article here i dont understand this at all ….the consoles  are nothing to defend ……and here is why

OH the on going fanboy console war Xbox360 vs Ps3…….

If you don’t know what this is then your not a proud owner of either a playstation 3 console or the infamous xbox360 before i go on any further i just want to say …i have both >.> that being said lets talk about about this war which is fueled mostly by people who only have one console and know little to nothing about the other only what they heard i cant even count on my hands how many times ive brought up this issue on an online match over in game voip only to find out that the person im having this debate with can only shoot out false rumors which they belive to be true…

both consoles have there pros and cons so lets go thru them shall we >.>

starting with the xbox360, there is only one reason why the xbox seems to be pulling alot more developers then playstation3  the one thing that you must know is that everyone goes where the money is :D and due to some real good timing xbox has a huge fanbase  its like a dominoes effect thats happening right now  they came out  pushing there units out eventho they knew they were defective because they knew the sooner they could get there product to the market the better chance they would have in pulling in a consumer base …. even with defective consoles the fanboys will stay loyal :D   with consumers comes developers and being that the xbox was release almost a year before ps3 the developers were getting use to the console there for making better games with better games comes more consumers and exclusive rights from game developers  and here starts the dominoes effect  thats fueling the xbox360.

now on to the Ps3 one thing i have noticed since i owned my ps3 was it was alot more open source then the xbox360  with the hard drive being a laptop hardrive it give you the ability to put over 500 gigs of hard drive space right in your system with a nice plug and play configuration on the side of the console they manage to go barely bankruped with the HIGH END  parts in the system…ill go more into this later  but you get a blueray player and a nice powerful cpu making the playstation 3 a powerful system compared to the xbox now for the con the interface is bland and the community seems to be antisocial  also you seem to hear the fanboys complain alot about how they  want these features now…which seems to be alot of what xbox already has >.> ….. all in all i think as far as power and future proof (not having to make a hardware upgrade)  ps3 seems to take the cake  there games are not as good and that comes from the console being fairly new and the developers not being able to handle the ps3 yet there getting better but there is not the same quality as in the xbox360 who by now has been on the market for quite some time

Now the ps3 is feeling the pain due to xbox riding that perpetual wave  ps3 is about a year behind as far as the developers go with that said better games are making it to the xbox and now that developers see they can make alot more money if they market there product to xbox and there huge fan base what does that mean  PlayStation is losing alot more of there exclusives  and i dont think it will stop with final fantasy hopefully this time next year we can finally see what ps3 has to offer because by then there will be developers that can handle the ps3 who knows mag might be the starting point of that understanding of  the ps3

lets sum it up here ps3 powerful  system crappy games/community is antisocial for the most part >.> xbox great games/huge social community  cheap hardware ……. what is on top is not always whats the best :D

with  the more consumers that xbox gets the more money they have to spend on development  which will bring ….natal and other surprises because from what  Major nelson is say “the xbox is not even halfway thru its life cycle ….more then 5 yrs” and the less consumers ps3 will have which will mean less money to spend and less videogame developers looking at ps3 as a viable marketing solution ….

I do know one thing if playstation ever goes down  xbox games will skyrocket in price  as well as there hardware and there return will tripple seeing as the xbox was cheaply made and when i say cheaply ….i mean cheap the only thing i can see that they changed was the gpu and the idea of using a pc hard drive  after seeing what the community did with the first xbox >.<  with just a 20 gig hd you will be forced into buying a new hd from Microsoft

i can go on and on and on with this but there are good things and bad things with either console at the end of the day your just fighting to defend the loan shark that’s taking your money and smiling while you give them free advertisement

it doesn’t make any sense ….at all >.> so i will continue to enjoy the best of both worlds .

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