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Vuzix Offers 3D DVD Titles for its Video Eyewear in the latest Industry Standard Side-by-Side Format
Category: Other | Posted by Scott Sherman @ 2010-03-10 10:15:00
Rochester, NY - March 10, 2010 – Vuzix Corporation (TSX-V: VZX), the world leader in Video Eyewear, introduces a collection of 3D DVD titles now available for purchase on the company’s web store at www.vuzix.com . These DVDs are mastered for viewing on its Video Eyewear and compatible 3D television sets. The initial list of 14 movies, from “Jaws 3D” to “SOS Planet”, is just the start of a growing portfolio that will give owners of Vuzix Video Eyewear even more 3D viewing options.
Though 3D DVDs have been available for some time, they are hard to find and can sometimes have questionable quality. Vuzix 3D tiles are all in the latest Side-by-Side format; just one of the multiple formats supported by Vuzix Video Eyewear. In fact Side-by-Side 3D support was recently approved as a mandatory 3D format by the consumer electronics industry for upcoming 3D displays, ensuring Vuzix Video Eyewear users will have lots of future 3D viewing opportunities. Now movie buffs can bring home these DVDs, view upcoming 3D television broadcasts and new 3D Hollywood blockbusters on their personal big screen 3D Video Eyewear, without the high cost of purchasing one of the new 3D TVs expected to be available later this year.
Vuzix CEO, Paul Travers, says: "It is exciting for our users to have this growing list of 3D titles available from a single source with the assurance they will work with their Vuzix 3D Video Eyewear. Upgrading to a home 3D experience is expected to cost thousands of dollars through the replacement of a user’s HD television; whereas Vuzix’ customers can enjoy a big screen 3D experience today with the purchase of a pair of Vuzix Video Eyewear for as little as $249."
Though 3D DVDs have been available for some time, they are hard to find and can sometimes have questionable quality. Vuzix 3D tiles are all in the latest Side-by-Side format; just one of the multiple formats supported by Vuzix Video Eyewear. In fact Side-by-Side 3D support was recently approved as a mandatory 3D format by the consumer electronics industry for upcoming 3D displays, ensuring Vuzix Video Eyewear users will have lots of future 3D viewing opportunities. Now movie buffs can bring home these DVDs, view upcoming 3D television broadcasts and new 3D Hollywood blockbusters on their personal big screen 3D Video Eyewear, without the high cost of purchasing one of the new 3D TVs expected to be available later this year.
Vuzix CEO, Paul Travers, says: "It is exciting for our users to have this growing list of 3D titles available from a single source with the assurance they will work with their Vuzix 3D Video Eyewear. Upgrading to a home 3D experience is expected to cost thousands of dollars through the replacement of a user’s HD television; whereas Vuzix’ customers can enjoy a big screen 3D experience today with the purchase of a pair of Vuzix Video Eyewear for as little as $249."
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Tournaments, Hosted by NVIDIA, EA, DICE, Alienware, and Bigfoot Networks!
Category: Other | Posted by Scott Sherman @ 2010-03-09 14:02:00
Get right to the best action with the Battlefield Bad Company 2 Battle for PAX Tournament. Squad up with three of your closest buddies and dominate the all new Squad Deathmatch multiplayer mode as four teams of 4 duke it out in the fully destructible environments online. The top four teams of the online tournament will be invited to Penny Arcade Expo East, in Boston, Massachusetts for a chance to win in the $10,000 finals*! Register now before it’s too late.
While at PAX East, not only will you have the chance to compete in the $10,000 finals on Sunday the 28th, but you will also get your chance to compete in another tournament featuring Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Saturday; the world’s first 3D tournament! This event will feature its own set of exciting prizes, brought to you by the folks at NVIDIA, Alienware, and Bigfoot Networks. Details on how to sign up for this tournament will be made available soon at http://www.geforcelan.com/?page=tournaments.
While at PAX East, not only will you have the chance to compete in the $10,000 finals on Sunday the 28th, but you will also get your chance to compete in another tournament featuring Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Saturday; the world’s first 3D tournament! This event will feature its own set of exciting prizes, brought to you by the folks at NVIDIA, Alienware, and Bigfoot Networks. Details on how to sign up for this tournament will be made available soon at http://www.geforcelan.com/?page=tournaments.
Daily Roundup: 2010-03-09
Category: Daily Roundup | Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-03-09 12:51:00
CPUs, RAMs, Mobos
- MSI Wind Box Intel Atom 330 NetTops at Phoronix
Video Cards
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GB Review at XSReviews
- MSI GTX 275 Lightning - Overclocking Beauty at Ocaholic
- ASUS EAH 5850 TOP DirectCU at techPowerUp
Cases, PSUs, Coolers
- Noctua NH-D14 CPU Cooler Review at BayReviews.com
- Cooler Master 690 II Advanced Review at Overclockers Online
- Nexus RX-6300 Power Supply at PureOverclock
- Raidmax Skyline Windowed Mid-Tower Chassis at Tweaktown
- Another World-Exclusive: Lian Li PC-T1R Spider at techPowerUp
- NZXT Hades Crafted Series Tower @ Pro-Clockers
- Cooler Master V8 Heatpipe CPU Cooler Review at Bigbruin.com
Peripherals
- WD SiliconEdge-Blue Solid State Drive at Benchmark Reviews
- Razer Naga und Megasoma Review at Technic3D
- Ineo Technologies I-NA205Ue - Review at UMLan
- Mushkin Mulholland Drive 2GB USB Drive Review at OCC
- Samsung PN58B650 58 Inch Plasma TV Review at Tweaknews
- Kingston SSDNow V-Series 30GB Solid State Boot Drive Review at ThinkComputers.org
- USB 3.0 GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 PCI Express Card GA-USB3.0 at Bona Fide Reviews
- Everki Beacon Laptop/Notebook Backpack at TechwareLabs
- Thecus N7700 Pro 7 Drive NAS Server at Tweaktown
- Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP8 at t-break
Misc
- Interview with The Creative Assembly (Total War) at GamingHeaven.net
- Xigmatek Interview with Tony Sahin at HardwareHeaven.com
- Hard Disk Drive Performance Comparison Guide Rev. 3.3 at Tech ARP
VALVE TO DELIVER STEAM & SOURCE ON MAC
Category: Other | Posted by Scott Sherman @ 2010-03-08 13:31:00
March 8, 2010 - Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, Valve's gaming engine, to the Mac.
Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April.
"As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service, customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients," said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. "The Mac is a great platform for entertainment services."
"Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac," said Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve. "Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs, and we have added a new feature, called Steam Play, which allows customers who purchase the product for the Mac or Windows to play on the other platform free of charge. For example, Steam Play, in combination with the Steam Cloud, allows a gamer playing on their work PC to go home and pick up playing the same game at the same point on their home Mac. We expect most developers and publishers to take advantage of Steam Play."
"We looked at a variety of methods to get our games onto the Mac and in the end decided to go with native versions rather than emulation," said John Cook, Director of Steam Development. "The inclusion of WebKit into Steam, and of OpenGL into Source gives us a lot of flexibility in how we move these technologies forward. We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360. Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows."
Portal 2 will be Valve's first simultaneous release for Mac and Windows. "Checking in code produces a PC build and Mac build at the same time, automatically, so the two platforms are perfectly in lock-step," said Josh Weier, Portal 2 Project Lead. "We're always playing a native version on the Mac right alongside the PC. This makes it very easy for us and for anyone using Source to do game development for the Mac."
Support for the Mac in Source and Steamworks is available to third parties immediately. Interested developers should contact Jason Holtman at jasonh@valvesoftware.com.
About Steam
The leading online service for games and digital entertainment, Steam delivers new releases and online services to over 25 million gamers around the world. For more information, please visit www.steampowered.com
Daily Roundup: 2010-03-08
Category: Daily Roundup | Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-03-08 12:16:00
CPUs, RAMs, Mobos
- MSI H55-GD65 Gamer Series LGA1156 ATX Motherboard Review at Futurelooks
- Gigabyte H55M-USB3 - The Ultimate $100 H55 Board? at Techgage.com
- ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 890GX at PureOverclock
- Alienware M11x Notebook Review at t-break
- ViewSonic ViewBook Pro VNB131S 13.3-inch Notebook at Tweaktown
- Toshiba Satellite E205-S1904 Laptop Review at HotHardware.com
- ASUS Maximus III Formula motherboard review at Elite Bastards
Video Cards
- PowerColor Radeon HD 5870 PCS+ Review at OCC
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 Video Card in CrossFire at Tweaktown
Cases, PSUs, Coolers
- In Win Fanqua Mid Tower Chassis Review at ThinkComputers.org
- Coolermaster USP100 Case Review at High Tech Reviews
- Coolermaster GX 750 Power Supply at Pro-Clockers
- NZXT LEXA S Crafted Series PC Case Review at DragonSteelMods
- Raidmax Skyline Case Review at OCIA.net
Peripherals
- ASUS U3S6 USB 3.0/SATA 3 6Gbps PCIE Card at TestFreaks
- Arctic Cooling E361-WM Headphones at Rbmods
- Kingston 30GB SSDNow V Series Boot Drive Review at Legit Reviews
- Steelseries Xai Review at XSReviews
- EOS wireless loudspeaker system at TechwareLabs
- Brother HL-3070CW LED Printer Review at CCE Reviews
- Kingston SSDNow V Series 30GB Boot Drive at TestFreaks
Misc
- Building the imperfect beast, part III: The agony of victory at Techreport
- WinX DVD Ripper Platinum v5.9 Giveaway Contest at BayReviews.com
- Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Roadmap at Tech ARP
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 GPU Performance In-depth at Techspot
- CeBIT 2010 Coverage at Madshrimps
Press Release
Warpia Easy Dock -- the wireless docking solution for your MacBook/laptop
Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-03-09 13:30:00
Easy Dock brings your laptop content to your desktop computing environment for convenient use of speakers, mouse, keyboard & external monitor
SAN JOSE, California, Mar. 9 – Source R&D announced today the availability of the Warpia Easy Dock, which will allow users to wirelessly connect their notebook/netbook/Macbook to any traditional desktop setting. With the Easy Dock’s straightforward plug-and-play interface, consumers can have both the convenience and portability of a laptop, as well as the comfort of a desktop computer. Easier on the eyes, ears and hands, users will no longer have to squint at a miniature screen, deal with a below average sound quality, or fumble with a tiny keyboard.
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MSI announces availability of Wind U160 with 15 hour battery life
Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-03-09 12:56:00
Stylish new netbook features Pine Trail Platform, 15-Hour Battery Life, and Windows 7
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – March 08, 2010 – MSI Computer, a leading manufacturer of computer hardware products and solutions, is proud to announce the availability of the 2010 iF Product Design Award Winning Wind U160. The U160, MSI’s second netbook to feature the new Pine Trail platform, is powered by the Intel® Atom N450™ Processor. The incredibly efficient and Energy Star compliant U160 boosts a 15 hour battery life when running in MSI’s exclusive ECO mode. This allows users to get through a full day of work or school without having to bring their adapter.
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Silicon Power's 830 Featuring Northern European Design, Stainless Steel Casing and Elegant Looks
Posted by Victor Wu @ 2010-03-09 12:53:00
March 9, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan ~ Silicon Power, one of the world’s leading flash memory manufacturers announced today (3/9) the “Metal Aesthetic” Touch 830.
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