» The Nintendo 3DS Is 19th Century Tech On Steroids
2010 is a strange and wonderful year for videogames. After years of innovative stagnation catering to a money-printing casual market, Nintendo, who made waves in 2006 with the motion-controlled Wii, is once again running the show this week at the E3 games expo in Los Angeles. Their new portable system, the Nintendo 3DS, is offering portable 3-D gaming with no glasses required. It might seem like magic, but it’s still based on one of the oldest tricks in the book — Stereoscopy.
From a 19th Century English fellow to Johnny Chung Lee’s Wii head-tracking experiment, click through to see a few of the events that prophecized 3-D portable gaming.
