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iPhone getting a “virtual reality headmount” - take THAT RIM!

March 8, 2008 by Dr. Macenstein · 6 Comments
Filed under: Awesomeness, Press releases, iPhone

Above: Box Fab may have finally found a way to make the iPhone not cool.

Well, out of all the “guess what we’re gonna do” press releases to come from 3rd party developers following the iPhone SDK announcements, this one is certainly one of the most ambitious. BOX FAB has announced 3 crazy ideas it claims to have secured an “exclusive licensing award” for, the most controversial of which is: “a virtual reality head-mount which the iPhone clips into instantly become a networked, head-tracked, virtual worlds viewer”. Let’s see RIM do that!

Box Fab describes the Virtual reality display as:

“A Virtual Reality display device which uses the iPhone as the viewing plate so that it becomes a wearable virtual headset simply by clipping on a special attachment. The device can network with other uses for shared virtual experiences and uses the tilt sensor of the iPhone plus a proprietary left-right tracker to provide a truly immersive experience. Special close-view depixelization flat optics turn the iPhone screen into a 3 dimensional window into another world. The under $200.00 design provides the functionality of devices costing thousands of dollars more.”

Even discounting the “beautiful” 3D rendering above, this is one of those ideas that doesn’t seem entirely thought out, as the iPhone’s Read more

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Aero Quartet releases SimpleMovieX 3.6.2

January 3, 2008 by Dr. Macenstein · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Press releases, Software, Updates

Aero Quartet has released version 3.6.2 of SimpleMovieX, their lightweight Mac OS X movie editor. Sort of a cross between QuickTime Pro and Rogue Amoeba’s Fission, SimpleMovieX extends editing capabilities to other popular video formats AVI, MPEG and iPod MP4. The main advantage of native editing is speed and quality, since no re-encoding is required to save edited movies. This new version adds a redesigned timeline and can create MPEG-4 file with chapter markers, to be enjoyed on your iPod or iPhone.

Aero Quartet has released version 3.6.2 of SimpleMovieX, the lightweight Mac OS X movie editor. With a feature set roughly similar to QuickTime Pro, SimpleMovieX extends editing capabilities to other popular video formats AVI, MPEG and iPod MP4. The main advantage of native editing is speed and quality, since no re-encoding is required to save edited movies.
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