- Microsoft hints that there is the Microsoft Cloud OS. Details to come, we hope. True vaporware, eh? Ballmer floating around the SF Bay Area.
- Apple pulls NDA off the table for iPhone developers. Google Android may be part of the reason.
- More Xohm reviews coming in and people are liking it.
- T-mobile getting buzz over Android.
- Sarah Palin has even more email accounts.
- Why are 3D displays so in the news? Is it a true trend or an everlasting on again off again fad? I say fad.
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I agree with John in that 3D is peaking too early and will be nothing more than a fad because of image control, the multiple-viewer issue and eyestrain.
Frankly, I don’t see anything serious in 3D for at least 5 to 10 years and maybe not even then unless they can perfect parallax divergence control with multiple viewpoints without making everyone wear colored or polarized or shuttered glasses. Some very well-made LCDs can give a decent 3D image, but everyone has to stand farther back from the display than people currently do from flat TVs.
Eye fatigue is also a major issue. I always hear “gaming” as the killer app for 3D, but you try moving a personal viewpoint around in a 3D environment that fuzzes out or blurs if you move your head too much? The only 3D gaming solution that works are goggles like eMagin’s OLED devices and other dedicated-near-eye technologies.
Why is WiMax now called Xohm? Do we need another confusing moniker?
I had the pleasure of seeing a 3d flatscreen in Dubai on a recent trip. It was AMAZING, just completely mind blowing. This is with no glasses, about 15 feet away. I can’t see this not catching on like wildfire in my opinion depending on price of course. Truly amazing. My wife was right next to me and thought the same, there was no viewability issues at all.
The Cloud OS is a mish mash of various ideas floating arounding Redmond like Mesh, Silverlight, and the Web 2.0 stuff in .NET (Rest/JSON support in WCF, MVC in ASP.NET). I like Mesh a lot. The rest is just catch up.
Thank God Apple finally dropped the NDA. The SDK is worth looking at now.
This credit crisis/ housing crisis/ $700,000,000,000.00 bailout has been a godsend for Sarah Palin.
Nobody’s paying any attention to exactly what she has been doing with all those email accounts.
We know she was conducting official Alaska state business on the two that have been revealed so far.
Lucky for her, everyone is so distracted by other things that are going on that she’ll probably skate on the email shenannigans.
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how many people site 15 feet away from their TV unless it or their room is really huge?