3D Technology

The 3DS. A simple name. A few months ago, the Nintendo 3DS was shown at E3, and gained highly positive reviews. What does it do? Well, it makes stuff pop out at you in 3D, without wearing any glasses! Over the past few years people have experimented with 3D technology. Just the fact of something popping out at you was a amazing idea.

This lead to people making 3D glasses, where the screen has these red&blue outlines, that makes the illusion of something popping out at you. Then there is Digital 3D Glasses, usually worn in Cinema, and the 3D effects are much more powerful. Then here comes this cutting edge new hand held device, that allows that powerful illusion without any glasses. This shows that our technology is getting more advanced, and people are taking advantage of it. However, this wasn't Nintendo's first "3D" device. There was an earlier project. It was called the Virtual Boy.
Yay...Virtual Reality. The virtual boy was a flop, died in less then a year, and very few games were released.

2 days ago the Nintendo 3DS was announced to be released sometime near March 2011. The Japanese price was announced, and was said too be $300. That's more expensive then the Wii. However, I don't think it is, because the Japanese price is the same as the Wii launch price, $249.99.

Technology came a long way. Just imagine how everything would be like in 20-30 years. Will the 3DS be the start of a new era of technology, or will it be a flop like the Virtual Boy? Well, it received tons of positive feedback. Let's wait and find out.