Stereo-Blind and 3D TVs

I just recently discovered that I am stereo or 3D blind. I went to see those new 3D TVs that are all the hype now days, put on the glasses and didn’t see any 3D. The salesperson who was very nice, swapped me several glasses over several TV sets but no luck. The pictures that I saw was just flat, double image and dimmer. I was disappointed not being able to see 3D because all the impressions that I had read sounded fun. Image popping out like those pop-out picture books, or playing games that look like tabletop experience, I guess I’ll never experience that. Though I did some reading and they said there are some exercises you can do so you can see the world with both eyes, so there, maybe hoped for me.

Anyway, this month I was pretty much in pain from arthritis, I just don’t like winter. It’s getting better, but I wasn’t able to update Little-Way comic as I had hoped, but once I get better I’ll update for sure.

New Little-Way Update Soon

Mid year and I am swamp with work, but I think I can schedule some spare time to draw Little-Way comic very soon, once everything sorted. I am hoping for a regular weekly update, maybe more if I can spare more time. Please look forward to more updates.

Happy Easter Everyone

I'm wishing everyone Happy Easter. Today, I given away buckets of delicious Easter eggs. I hope you all received your share too. Also lets not forget what Easter really is. Have a nice Easter Holiday.

Paleoparticle nicknamed 'Neutrinosaurus'

The Large Hadron Collider was put into operation just a couple days ago doing collisions successfully at 7 TeV and they already made some discovery. You can read the news article here. I find it funny that they nicknamed it ‘neutrinosaurus’. It sounded like something out of Domino’s Pizza menu. They said it was because of its repulsive appearance and prehistoric origins. To me ‘Neutrinosaurus’ sounded like something delicious. Anyway, it’ll be interesting to what else they’ll discover in the next year or two.

On another note, those people that claimed ‘black hole’ over LHC sure look silly now. I couldn’t believe it actually made a news piece here locally about LHC causing the end of the world. It was silly. I had a good chuckle over it. I hope those physicists discover how the universe came to be and good luck to them.

Subscribe to Little-Way

Dear readers, I had set up FeedBurner so anyone who prefers getting their updates through feed like Google Reader can click on Subscribe to Little-Way-Blog and Subscribe to Little-Way Comic on the sidebar. That’s two feeds one for the blog and the other for the comic. This way everything is easy to read. Finally got a chance to update this blog template. I’m not finished yet, there will be more updates when I have the opportunities. Now it's possible to read Little-Way comic by clicking on the big link on the sidebar. More Little-Way updates are on the way.

Playstation Move announced at GDC 2010

Instead of drawing comic, I was watching the stream of Sony’s GDC 2010 Press Conference where they announced Playstation Move, their answer to Nintendo Wii motion control. Sony’s solution requires three gadgets, Playstation Eye camera, Playstation Move motion controller and Playstation Move sub-controller. Yes, they are calling it ‘sub-controller’. For the longest time, medias were referring to Move as Arc. You can tell that the changed to Move was a last minute effort because the current logo is shaped like A for ‘Arc’ I presumed.

On the first look, Sony’s solution looks like a blatant copy of Nintendo’s. The funny spherical orb on top of Move appears to be Sony's solution to avoid a Nintendo lawsuit. However, if you have been following GDC for a very long time Sony Eyetoy team had demo this concept long before Nintendo revealed Wii. I remember the Sony Team demo Eyetoy using two spherical coloured red and blue on sticks with virtual creature resembling something like Eyepet, as well as pouring virtual water using glasses via Eyetoy. It left an impression on me. I guess the head at Sony did not see the potential of this technology until Nintendo showed them how.

In the presentation, they rather admitted to Nintendo innovation. If it were I presenting, I would not admit to it. I would present the history of Eyetoy instead, make sure everyone know who had the technology first. Than again the demo reel that followed was rather embarrassing since it was Nintendo inspired (read rip-off) rather than something interesting or original. They did not know what to do with the technology five years ago and they certainly did not know what to do with it today. It was quite sad, I am very sure that the audience had déjà vu to Nintendo E3 2006 presentation.

Now looking at their implementation I hope they would change the spec before release. Sony needs to combine Playstation Move and sub-controller into a single controller. If a game need the use of the sub-controller, player can use two Playstation Move instead. Currently the sub-crontroller does not have the spherical orb. The Playstation Move lacks any d-pad, analog stick and a second trigger button.

We all know that add-on peripherals are difficult to gain support and traction. For Sony sake, I hope they can manufacture the components cheap enough that their solution becomes standard controller with every PS3 sold, as well as plenty of good games for it.

Welcome to Little-Way Blog

Hello and welcome dear readers. This is the official blog to Little-Way webcomic. That sounded too formal, lets try again. Since the design of the Little-Way webcomic page is just for the purpose of viewing the Little-Way comic, this blog is for my personal blog, it'll contains news and updates, requested tutorials, my views on everything and perhaps other goodies too. I am going to revamp the template for this blog to my liking sometimes next week also Little-Way webcomic is going to be updated on regular basis very soon once everything are sorted out. I hoped you'll enjoy reading Little-Way. Almost forgot, click here to go to Little-Way webcomic.