The hot word on the block seems to be Nintendo’s upcoming 3DS portable. With lines that hail back to the 2005 E3, people were waiting hours to get a few minutes with the new device.
The main draw for the 3DS, of course, was the high quality, glasses free, 3D display, a first for any personal electronic device. Most writers and developers agree that the effect is comparable to any other 3D experience and mixed with the built in 3D camera were highly impressed. The one major complaint I have noticed reading the various first impressions, was the 3D effect’s sweet spot was, just that a spot. Outside of this spot, the 3D effect beings to blur.
Personally, lacking any depth perception, any device or movie labeled 3D usually gets an instant pass from me. One thing that does hold my interest is the overall power of the device. It is clear from the technical demos that the device has the potential to render 3D environments with as at least, as much detail and texture as a GameCube. Nintendo is being its usual dodgy self, and has not detailed the specifications of the device, so I am looking forward to hearing more from the studios and developers with access to the 3DS development kit.
As most of the world has noticed, this past week was the massively popular game developer’s convention simply named, E3. This year was a stellar year with many great videos and overall announcements by the major game industry players.
So the new version of WordPress has finally been released. It’s been a long trip since version 2.1 where I hopped on the bandwagon, but as always it looks like a great release.
It is a few months late, but since I still get lots of traffic from it, I thought I would post an update on the font Vegur. For some reason the font was removed from FontSquirrel. The font is still freely available and has since been updated to version 0.601. There is a noticeable difference between the 0.5 version that I linked to before. The update features cleaner lines and a stronger line weight.
As a designer, I run into issues with font licensing all the time. Over the past year, there has been a large push on the internet to use and integrate native fonts into standard web design, by distributing a copy along with a web page using the @font-face CSS3 tag. This of course presents a massive legal and creative wall. Any designer worth their salt has access to a range of high quality professional fonts created by respected font foundries, none of which can be used legally in a native font format. This leaves designers with a broken selection of matched fonts that have a tendency of kerning and spacing issues.