The second biggest obstacle preventing the wide-spread adoption of 3D gaming, other than the actual displays, is without a doubt wireless 3D glasses. In a move to shift the 3D gaming paradigm, Nvidia has come up with a clever plan to make 3D gaming affordable by heading back to its corded roots. Wired 3D Vision glasses, priced at £60 ($99), will deliver the same award-winning 3D quality and provide low-cost access to more than 525 full-HD 3D games, Blu-ray 3D movies, and streaming 3D video.
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Hitting the scales at less than a pound, the 7-inch ViewSonic ViewPad 7x will be one of the first bite-sized Android Honeycomb tablets to come to market. Despite its small stature, the ViewPad 7x is no slouch in the specs department, packing the same 1 GHz nVidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor as its much larger counterparts. It appears the Acer Iconia Tab A100 and HTC Flyer have a new competitor, game on.
As the successor to the Evo Smart Console, the upcoming Evo 2 looks to bring Android 2.2 and loads of HD content to your living room. Nvidia graphics, built-in WiFi, and the ability to sync with your Android smartphone or tablet are just the tip of the iceberg for this Android console. With the Nintendo Wii HD expected to be unveiled at E3 next month, the Evo 2 might just give the gaming console a run for its money.
That much rumoured Amazon Android tablet is back on the rumour mill but the latest word is that we can expect not one but two tablets. Boy Genius Reports claims a loose-lipped tipster at Amazon says we’ll see an entry-level Tegra 2 tablet codenamed “Coyote” and a quad-core beast with the codename “Hollywood”.
That more powerful device will apparently rock the Superman-referencing, NVIDIA T30 “Kal-El” processor. There’s no news on other specs yet so we’ll just have to imagine what Amazon might be cooking up. Click the headline and hop into the comments to tell us what features you want to see in the mysterious Amazon Android tablets.
Out TBC | £TBC | Amazon (via Boy Genius Report)
It’s been another busy morning in tech: let’s see just what went down in our bite-sized, super digestible lunchtime lowdown news round up, shall we? Read on, chaps and chapesses.
NVIDIA boss, Jen-Hsun Huang, has been speaking out about the current state of Android tablets. He says Android tablet sales have struggled for a number of reasons:
“It’s a point of sales problem. It’s an expertise at retail problem. It’s a marketing problem to consumers. It is a price point proglem. Tablets should have a Wi-Fi configuration and be more affordable. Those that did sold more rapidly than the 3G and fully configured ones.”
Huang also criticised the lack of apps available for Android Honeycomb tablets. However, he had some positive things to say about the future…
While ARM and NVIDIA have the tablet space locked down right now, new rumours says Intel is set to streak into the space after negotiations with Google to get its chips into a new strain of Android Honeycomb devices.
The suggestion from loose-lipped suppliers is that Intel-based Android Honeycomb tablets will arrive in Q3 2011. It seems unlikely that we’ll see the finished article then but a concept device could be outed to lure manufacturers into moving to its chips.
Out TBC | £TBC | Intel (via Crunchgear)
The eagle-eyed folks at geek.com have spotted a mysterious Alienware laptop listed in Dell’s support page, dubbed the M18x. As the name suggests, this 18-inch laptop could be the creme de la creme for gaming enthusiasts hoping to bring a desktop experience on the road. According to the rumors, the screen on this bad boy would measure a whopping 18.4-inches diagonally.