NVIDIA’s 3D Vision is impressive and all, but one trade-off you’ll have to accept when you put on those active shutter glasses is a markedly dimmer field of view than what you’d get if you settled for plain-Jane 2D gaming. Well, the outfit just unveiled the second generation of the technology — appropriately named 3D Vision 2 — and this go ’round it promises not to strain your vision quite so much. These shutter glasses have a lens that’s 20 percent larger, promising a brighter experience.
[ Video Link ] Brian from the band I Fight Dragons generously made a tutorial that explains how to create your own chiptunes (music made on old videogame soundcards). Many of you have asked how we do what we do, so now we’re starting a series to explain the inner workings of our tech for those of you who wish to make chiptune and/or program controllers too! Forthcoming Tutorials: -Little Sound DJ (gameboy) programming -MidiNES (nintendo) programming and usage -rarer chips programming and usage (Commodore 64, Atari 2600) -Chipsounds (plugin) programming and usage -How to hook up videogame controllers as music controllers -Recording and Mixing with Bill and Stanley And possibly more! We’ll try to do one every week or two from here on out! Here’s a video of I Fight Dragons performing “Money.”
[ Video Link ] This disturbing video is making the rounds today, and there are conflicting reports of what it documents. The man on the ground has been identified as 32-year-old Ari Douglas, a legal observer at the Occupy Wall Street protests for the National Lawyer’s Guild . The video appears to show a police officer running over Mr.
[ YouTube video link .] This YouTube video title misidentifies the person being punched as female. The person is Felix Rivera-Pitre, reports Gothamist . He tells Gothamist that he is HIV positive and is a former dancer: [Rivera-Pitre] tells us he was walking a little bit in front of the police on William Street, and admits he “shot the cop a look.” But then, according to Rivera-Pitre (and this is in line with what we witnessed), “The cop just lunged at me full throttle and hit me on the left side of my face. It tore my earring out