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The enhancements in the 3DS are not limited to the 3D screen, but it is fair to say that it is this addition that will define it, despite some nifty communications tools like Street Pass and Spot Pass and, crucially, an analogue stick to join the almost bewildering array of input options already present in the DS platform

The Nintendo 3DS will live or die by the 3D – and despite a lackluster launch line-up, the early indicators are that this will make sure the entire platform is alive and kicking for some time to come

Nintendo’s flogged over 125 million DS handhelds worldwide and isn’t prepared to stop this money-printing exercise any time soon. The company intends to corner the market with 3D technology rather than simply pinning its hopes on increased graphical capabilities.

The company claims the 3DS will be backwards compatible with all previous DS and DSi software, suggesting that the new handheld will feature a dual screen and dual cameras.

The middle screen is 10 inches while the OLED screens add up 16 inches in total making an aspect ratio of 32:10. The body of this laptop is made of Aluminum. The laptop would be having high specs and a powerful graphics card.

The portable machine has a D-Pad, face buttons and a 7.0 inch Screen at the front. Its a 800 x 480 capacitive touch screen with a satisfactory display. Thing to admire in such a portable pack is a dual-core cortex A9 CPU with Mali 400 GPU (well thats impressive). Further more the device carries a 16 GB of internal storage with 512 MB RAM and a 2 Megapixel rear camera with the 0.3 Megapixel front facing camera. The device supports HDMI-out, USB port and it features WiFi as well. The gaming tablet runs up on previous version of Android i.e Android 2.2 Froyo.

You can download games direct from market or via downloading apk file and installing them later. The mostly android market games will allow you to interact on touch screen, for using side buttons for few games that support side buttons you have to install ROMs on your device.

Oculus Rift can now be used to pilot an actual drone – just strap on the headset-based cockpit and go crazy. Only instead of virtual hurdles, you need to watch out for real world trees and buildings.

Erik Torkel Danielsson, co-founder of Intuitive Aerial, was the first test flyer of the Oculus Rift drone contraption. It is a spying machine which carries camera mounted on top. A laptop is connected for its control assembly and WiFi Connectivity shows on the headset. A dream come true for RC freaks everywhere.

The idea actually revolves around the introduction of a digital dice called DICE+ that interacts with a tablet or smart phone, using a Bluetooth connection. This dice is technically composed of an LED display, an integral accelerometer, a thermometer, and a magnetometer. The battery life is about 20 hours. DICE+ combines the enjoyment of playing board games with the nonstop accessibility options.

Now, is this better than, you know, rolling a real dice? Definitely geekier though.

So PS4 has been announced, with the possibility of cloud gaming, but we’re here to talk about a streamed down yet interesting new way we can now game on our smartphones, together. Chrome Super Sync is a Chrome experiment that allows several players to come together and game on the same field using their smartphones as handheld consoles.

For now, the games are limited to three types of sports: swimming, running and cycling races. Everyone shares a common view on a single desktop browser and use their own smartphones to gesture and move their avatars to the finishing line.

Syncing The Race

To try this out, go to Chrome Super Sync Sports on your desktop computer or laptop to set up the race and sync in the contestants. Choose from the event you want to race in: running, cycling or swimming.

Pick single mode or multiplayer mode and you will get to this screen with a code. You will need this code to sync your smartphone to the desktop browser.

On your mobile browser, enter the code, then click Sync.

Choose your avatar and start gesturing on your phone to get your avatar to the end of the race.

Racing In Multiplayer Mode

You can race with friends by getting them to g.co/super and keying in the code. You’ll notice at the bottom part of your desktop browser how many of your friends have joined the race.

When all of the smartphones are in sync with the game, the first player to log in with the codewill have the option to start the game from their smartphone. Press on ‘All players are ready’ and it will bring you to the page to select your avatar.

After choosing your avatars, you and your friends can start racing against each other by gesturing on your respective phones.

Running

Cycling

Swimming

You can get any of your friends anywhere to connect to the game via the code, but they do not have a view of the field. So, basically, you and your friends need to be in the same room to view the events unravelling during the race. This also works on the tablet, in that you can not only use your tablet as a handheld console but also to display the field like your desktop browser can, by requesting desktop view (on Chrome).

It might not look like much now but this puts a foot through the door for more multiplayer smartphone gaming options in the future.