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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology with

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello again, everyone,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Poette and

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Speaker 1: I am an editor at how stuff works dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Sitting across from me, as always, his senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Great, Yes,

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Speaker 1: shot the Invisible Swordsman reverted to movies. That was a quote.

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Speaker 1: That was a quote switch up. I had a different

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Speaker 1: quote lined up, but then Mr Pellette made a reference

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Speaker 1: to a certain movie and I had to follow suit.

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Speaker 1: I like silly movies. I love that movie. Man. I

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Speaker 1: saw that film at least three times in the theater. Really, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well one for each, you know, amigo. And it wasn't

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Speaker 1: drown love this time. So, but today we wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk about a device that I actually got some hands

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Speaker 1: not gonna have any more time with that particular device. No, no,

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Speaker 1: And uh, you know I actually had a little time

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Speaker 1: so the first time I after that, I'm bitter. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I'm not playing with it

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Speaker 1: at the time that when you laid eyes on it,

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Speaker 1: where the shaft of light came down from the ceiling

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Speaker 1: and the Angel Chorus started singing, except that the angel

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Speaker 1: course instead of going oh said it's to me, I'm

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Speaker 1: something besides the D S light right, it was. It

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Speaker 1: a pretty major leap forward. Yes, and uh and so

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Speaker 1: you can actually see the forward because it's in three

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Speaker 1: D exactly. That was the big deal, was glasses free

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Speaker 1: dot Com actually bought a three D S for us

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Speaker 1: to try out because I wasn't at the show, so

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Speaker 1: I didn't get to see it for myself. Well, and

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Speaker 1: So people like seeing that's Brian Tong jumped right to

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Speaker 1: a fast pass? I don't I know. I know I

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Speaker 1: right people, right, I just apparently I didn't leverage those

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Speaker 1: So anyway, yeah, we've got a few minutes to look at.

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Speaker 1: And it was very impressive that when one of the

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Speaker 1: Figure U that know, that used the three D in

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Speaker 1: it looks a lot like the the D S light,

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Speaker 1: It's based upon a principle called parallax barrier. Now, in

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Speaker 1: it's made by digital media professionals and it's the PEAKA

431
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Speaker 1: two hundred chip and um it's ay. It runs at

432
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,360
Speaker 1: a four hundred mega hurts. So you've got a dedicated

433
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,399
Speaker 1: chip for the graphics, you've got another chip that's kind

434
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,600
Speaker 1: of running the rest of the horsepower for the games.

435
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 1: And then there's other chips in there too, right, There's

436
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 1: like there's a gyroscope, there's an accelerometer. Um, there's there's

437
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 1: of course memory chips, both for the RAM and for

438
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,040
Speaker 1: actual storage memory. It comes to going gig of flash

439
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 1: memory on board. And then you also get a two

440
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: gigabye UH SD card that comes with us, a Toshiba

441
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,159
Speaker 1: SD card, and uh. The nice thing about is that,

442
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 1: of course you can save content to this SD card.

443
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,439
Speaker 1: There's some limitations to that as well. Let's say that

444
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 1: you save a game to the SD card and then

445
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 1: you you load it onto a new three D S

446
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 1: and then you try and go back to your old

447
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 1: three D S and run that you're not gonna be

448
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,119
Speaker 1: able to access that content because it's it's d r M.

449
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,720
Speaker 1: The basis of that is that they don't want you

450
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 1: to be able to start copying games and then distribute

451
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 1: them to all your friends. What about saved games? To

452
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,159
Speaker 1: save games I think are a little different, um, but

453
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: I mean your your progress and things you could play

454
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 1: if you had the game on another d S, you

455
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 1: could play where you left off. I would have I think, So, yeah,

456
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: this is really for games. Like let's say you download

457
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: a game because you can't as a good point, we

458
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,119
Speaker 1: didn't talk about you can download games from Nintendo service,

459
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 1: and uh, if you were to save it to your

460
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,679
Speaker 1: SD card just so you don't take up all your

461
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,639
Speaker 1: space on your actual device, then you could port it

462
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 1: over to a different three D S, but then you're

463
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to play it on your first one. Okay,

464
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 1: same thing like if you were to port it over

465
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: to a third D S, you wouldn't be able to

466
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: play it on the first two. And that that's just

467
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,720
Speaker 1: protecting Nintendo so that you don't end up, you know,

468
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: distributing a game ad infinitum to all of your friends. Um,

469
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,720
Speaker 1: but there, I mean, there's also a Wi Fi chip

470
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: in it. That's what allows you, of course to access

471
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: not just WiFi hotspots, but Nintendo hot spots, which are

472
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: few and far between here in the States, but they're

473
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: pretty big in Japan. Um. There's also an i R

474
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:40,520
Speaker 1: chip so infrared that allows you to do probably three

475
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: DS to three D S communication. Although that not a

476
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 1: whole lot has been said about that particular feature. Yeah,

477
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't surprise me if that capability isn't available,

478
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: because it's already available on other Nintendo handheld. Well. Yeah,

479
00:24:55,000 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: and there there's definitely there's definitely some some collaborative uh

480
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: technology there. Right, there are ways where you can you

481
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 1: can gain content just by encountering other people who happened

482
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: to have a three D S Really, yeah, it's kind

483
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 1: of cool. The idea here is that you you keep

484
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: the three DS on in sleep mode, and you carry

485
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: it around with you, and when it comes within range,

486
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 1: it's constantly sort of sending out a little signal, a

487
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 1: ping sort of yeah, that's not going to kill your battery. Now,

488
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: battery life for this thing, by the ways, around five hours, um,

489
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,880
Speaker 1: five hours of playtime that's on a full charge, um.

490
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: And that's if you have the brightness turn. The higher

491
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: you turn up the brightness, the less time you'll have, right,

492
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 1: because you need the electricity from the battery to power

493
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: the brighter exactly. Yeah, you're you're putting in more lumens

494
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: well you know when yeah, you make luminated so yeah,

495
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: but yeah, it pings out this signal and if it

496
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 1: if it finds another three d S, it can exchange information.

497
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 1: So let's say that you both are playing a game

498
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: where you have tool pets, or perhaps you've created some

499
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: means on your three D S. You know, those are

500
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: the little avatar characters that Nintendo uses the Nintendo WE also,

501
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: and I think they were introduced with the Nintendo we Yeah,

502
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: or you could create an me using the three DS. Well,

503
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: if you walk by a whole bunch of people holding

504
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: three D s s, it may turn out that when

505
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 1: you open up your little me plasa, you start seeing

506
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: these other means that other people have created. Because you

507
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 1: know your three DS has made this connection and you downloaded,

508
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,959
Speaker 1: you ended up downloading automatically this information, which is kind

509
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: of cool. It creates this sort of community experience, even

510
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: with people you've never met. Although it makes you wonder

511
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:36,920
Speaker 1: if you can make your me a real jerk face

512
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: so that you're me whenever you go into the meat

513
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: plazas is really harassing the other means? Why does it

514
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 1: not surprise me that you've considered this as a possibility. Well,

515
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: you know, I will say that there's a kind of

516
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 1: cool feature where you can use the forward facing camera

517
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 1: on the three DS to take a picture of yourself,

518
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: and then the three D S will design a ME

519
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: based upon that photo. That's very cool. Yeah, it'll it'll

520
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 1: get it as close you know, trying. There's only so

521
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 1: many preset features that the ME has at its disposal.

522
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: It's not that many, but it will try and pick

523
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: the ones most appropriate to your faces, shape and features.

524
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: M Well, you can I actually take three D photos

525
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: in general, yeah, on the three D S. Yeah, the

526
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: the forward facing cameras and is just a regular camera,

527
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: but the rear facing cameras, those two that Chris was

528
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: talking about before, those can take three D images. It

529
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 1: takes two sets of photos and then overlays them and

530
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: then you can get a little three D image and

531
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: it looks like you've got some real depth there. That

532
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 1: actually is really cool. The downside of that, of course,

533
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 1: is that the only thing you can view that on

534
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: is the Nintendo three D S. Yeah, it's not like

535
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 1: you could pop the SD card out and put it

536
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: into a digital frame and something. You have all these

537
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: three D photos because of the digital frame lacks the

538
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 1: parallax barrier. So without the parallax barrier, you just get

539
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: a two dimensional image. I'm sorry, that just sounds like

540
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: a major science fiction construct. Pretty sure Admiral Akbar had

541
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 1: to reach the Parallax Barrier in order to destroy the

542
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: Death Star in Return of the Jedi. Okay, he was

543
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: mon Calamari. Well, so I'm sorry, I just kind of

544
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:18,360
Speaker 1: got me. Um See, it's a little on the expensive side,

545
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: which is more expensive than the we now, right, and

546
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: it's a hundred dollars more than what you're gonna find

547
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: with the regular DS models. Uh and with a feature

548
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: like three D is its main big feature over the

549
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: other DS models, right, And they're gonna be games that

550
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: are gonna be designed just for the three DS that

551
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,919
Speaker 1: will not run on the d S or d S light.

552
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: Not all of those games are in three D, by

553
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: the way, some of the games that are coming out, well,

554
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: by the time this podcast goes live, they may already

555
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: be out. But like the New Street Fighter game for

556
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: the three D S is not in three D. It's

557
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: for the three D S, but it does not have

558
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: a three D mode. That's kind of cheesed off some people,

559
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: by the way, I was gonna say, I imagine it

560
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 1: will confuse some people who are expecting a three D

561
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: s only title to be three D. Yeah, but as

562
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: the case, the case is just that not avery title

563
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: is gonna take advantage of the three D capabilities. Um.

564
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: One thing it does do that's kind of cool that

565
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: the other DS games don't do. It has augmented reality abilities. Ah. Yes, Now,

566
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: for the uninitiated, augmented reality is uh basically taking a

567
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: an image of something that's in real life. Say you're

568
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: looking through a camera at a a building that is

569
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: in front of you, and uh, and an augmented reality

570
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: solution would lay a virtual layer of information over that

571
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: to tell you maybe who the tenants inside the building are,

572
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: or the address a building you're looking at right right,

573
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: or you know, the things that are down the streets.

574
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: Say you shift the camera and it says, oh, well,

575
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 1: down the street you have a bookstore and a coffee shop.

576
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: And if you turn the camera the other way, it

577
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: might say, you know, there's a restaurant here, and then

578
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: it might even have a review of the restaurant up

579
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: or perhaps the menu of the restaurant. And yeah, there's

580
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: a lot of cool applications. You see this a lot

581
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: with smartphones right now, because smartphones have more and more

582
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: features that allow this to happen, like GPS, the compass,

583
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: the camera. All of these elements give smartphones the capabilities

584
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: they need in order to overlay information on top of reality. Well,

585
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: the three DS also has this capability, although it's in

586
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: a very specific feature right now. When you get a

587
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: three DS, you'll get a series of cards with it.

588
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: Most of the cards have characters on them like Mario UH,

589
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: sam Us from UH from was It Metroid Yeah, and

590
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: Link from the Zelda series. I find this ironic because

591
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: Nintendo started as a playing card company long long years

592
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: before electronics. Well, the one of the cards is one

593
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: of the the infamous coin boxes, the question mark boxes

594
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: that you find in the old Super Mario Brothers game

595
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: and then in lots of Mario games since then. If

596
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: you put that down on a table and you activate

597
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: the Augmented Reality Games feature on your Nintendo three D S,

598
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: pointing the cameras at that that UH card will start

599
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: a scanning process. They will detect the presence of that card.

600
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: Based upon the image, they can detect what angle the

601
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: you're holding the three DS, like, what's what angle of

602
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: view you have? You hold it about fourteen inches away

603
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: from that card and then it'll start this augmented reality

604
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: feature where a three D virtual box coin box pops

605
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: up and it appears to be standing on top of

606
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: the actual real card that's on the table. Now, granted,

607
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: if you're just looking at the table as a third person,

608
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: you know, observer, you're just gonna see a person pointing

609
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: a three D S at a card, right, because the

610
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: object is not the little virtual avatar guy is not

611
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: really there. But if you're looking through the three D S,

612
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: there appears to be a three dimensional animated objects standing

613
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: on top of the card. And then you can initiate

614
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: various games playing UH and play with this this card,

615
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: the first one being an archery game where you actually

616
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: have to physically move around the table in order to

617
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: get a view at all the different targets that you

618
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: have to shoot at, which is pretty cool people. It

619
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: was a big hit here at the office. People thought

620
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: it was really a neat idea. Yeah, and I thought

621
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: that the augmented reality UH applications really had a lot

622
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: of promise to them. It's still kind of limited because

623
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: it was relying on this this card and if you

624
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: if you lost the card, then you could always go

625
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: to a Nintendo's site and actually, um, download an image

626
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: that you could print on a color printer and then

627
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: you could use that instead. UM. But you know, it's

628
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,719
Speaker 1: not like you could point the three D S at

629
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: anything and then create a game on top of it.

630
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: It's you know, these very narrowly defined parameters that that

631
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: it will work with. And that's pretty much the state

632
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: of the art or augmented reality right now. UM. Anything

633
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: that's relying on object recognition is pretty fairly primitive right now.

634
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: So you're usually working with some sort of UM, predefined pattern,

635
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: and the cameras are able to map the pattern and

636
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: uh and generate the proper virtual data on top of

637
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: the the physical appearance. It's UM that part I thought

638
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: was really neat. I'm not sure that again this one.

639
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: It was this one game that came with than into

640
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: no three D S. I don't know how many more

641
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: applications will see of that. I don't I assume that

642
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: there's nothing stopping a developer from creating other augmented reality games.

643
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: I would imagine that would be entirely possible, And personally,

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Speaker 1: what I think would be really cool is create a

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Speaker 1: tabletop map, all right, and then invite a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of people over and each person has their own three

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Speaker 1: d S and they all point the three D s

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00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: at the map, and the three DS is, because of

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00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: their WiFi capability, can be network so you network together

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Speaker 1: and then you play a role playing game on top

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Speaker 1: of a real map with your virtual characters and they

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Speaker 1: can interact with each other. That would be very cool.

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Speaker 1: That would be super cool. Can you imagine, Like I'm

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Speaker 1: going back to my D and D game gaming days,

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Speaker 1: but I could. I mentioned playing a D and D

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Speaker 1: game where you're looking at a virtual representation of your

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Speaker 1: you know, barbarian uh who is going to kick down

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Speaker 1: the next door and you know the wizards right behind

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Speaker 1: you with a spell and he cast magic missile at

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Speaker 1: the darkness for damage. Right, So, um, I didn't make

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00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,359
Speaker 1: my saving throw against dorkiness unfortunately, But yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: that that would be a really neat feature. Now are

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Speaker 1: we going to see that? I don't know. I honestly

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Speaker 1: don't know if people are going to try and develop

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Speaker 1: for the augmented reality features of the three DS, but

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Speaker 1: I would love to see that happened, because well, the

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Speaker 1: three D gaming was cool. It disoriented me enough where

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Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't want to play it very often, and

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Speaker 1: since it's not integrated into the games necessarily, there's not

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Speaker 1: much point in ever turning the three D on if

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Speaker 1: it's going to disorient me. But if you were able

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Speaker 1: to push that augmented reality feature, then I'm saying, Hey,

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00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: this is a really compelling new form of gaming that

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Speaker 1: I am genuinely interested in, because eventually we're gonna have

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00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: the that um that Star Wars Chess set where you

676
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: let the Wookie win. Well, I have to say that

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Speaker 1: um at the price point and it's it's at right

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Speaker 1: now and with the features, you know, I'm just not

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Speaker 1: willing to fork over the money for it. But but

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Speaker 1: quite a few people did. It sold pretty well it's

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Speaker 1: first week. Yeah, I'm curious to see how those sales

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Speaker 1: hold up over time. I you know, we don't do

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Speaker 1: reviews here on tech stuff, but I have to completely

684
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: agree with you, Pulett. It's it's a really cool device

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Speaker 1: and I see a lot of promise in it, but

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Speaker 1: I don't I'm not I don't feel a need to

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Speaker 1: buy one. Now that being said, I should also add

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Speaker 1: that I am not really a handheld gaming enthusiast in

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Speaker 1: the first place, So I'm probably not the right market.

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00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: I when I game, I like to be sitting in

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Speaker 1: a comfortable chair at home, controller in hand, looking at

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Speaker 1: a big screen. So I'm not the right audience, so

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Speaker 1: it's probably not fair to ask me. But yeah, I would,

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Speaker 1: I would skip it. Yeah, but still it's phenomenal technology.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and there's nothing else. Uh, nobody else has

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Speaker 1: got a version of that. In fact, Sony as of

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Speaker 1: the week we're recording this, Sony pulled the PSP go

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Speaker 1: off the market. Yes, the PSP go is no go,

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Speaker 1: no mo wells just continue anyway. Yeah, so yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's sort of an a league of its own right now. Um, yeah, exactly. Yeah.

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