Another piece of interesting rumour about Nintendo's heavily under-wraps Revolution from the blog of Brooke Burgess, the creator of Broken Saints.He speculates on information gleaned from journalists and industry insiders about a possible 3D projection feature of the console:
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the IGN boys posted this
regarding a patent for Nintendo’s upcoming display technology, which I
linked to a few days ago. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to glean
that this conceptually portrays a form of 3D image projection.
- at a major film conference called ShoWest just last month, a
panel featuring George Lucus, Robert Zemekis, James Cameron, Robert
Rodriguez, and a satellite feed from Peter Jackson has studio reps,
journalists, and theatre owners seriously jazzed about their plans to
integrate cheap digital stereoscopic 3D (like recent IMAX features or the oldschool Captain EO experience at Epcot) into ALL major chains by 2007. Lucas even showed several minutes of the original STAR WARS with remapped visuals that popped off the screen and hovered in front of audience members. When an agent friend of mine was chatting with Rodriguez (there to pump Sin City and discuss his experiences with Spy Kids 3D), he mentioned how they were aware of a game machine beating them to the mainstream 3D market.
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the next day, I contacted another strangely influential industry
pal/pundit and shared my thesis purely for fun’s sake (and perhaps some extremely lame bragging rights). The final shiny block of tetrisy knowledge slid into place when he excitedly shared the following - that the Big N had shown a real-time 3D add-on for Gamecube behind closed doors…AT LAST YEAR’S E3. It has since gone MIA. This is the sound of four rows dropping.
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