You'll still be able to play existing DVDs, but they may look less thrilling once the smoke clears on two incompatible standards for high-definition DVDs jockeying to ship consumer-level models next year.
The company expects to start shipping consumer models of its 3DLCD early in 2003.The only catch is that there are, as yet, few consumer applications for 3D displays.
At the end of this month, one of Ridgeway's ideas comes to fruition with the launch of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition's "cradle to grave" online tracking tool which measures the impacts of materials, manufacturing, packaging, shipping, consumer use and end of life.
When it becomes shipping consumer software, Office 2016 For Mac will be included in the price of an Office 365 subscription.
In fact, Oculus has always seemed a company intent on playing the long game, from its protracted concept to shipping consumer hardware development cycle to its work winning over dedicated advocates in the developer community.
UltraViolet's progress numbers indicate that people are using the service, but the decision to include free copies with new shipping consumer electronic devices is also obviously designed as a way to promote the service and get it traction with a wider population.
Google Glass and Thalmic's MYO offer similar quandaries to their respective creators: these are crazy new gadgets that have little or no precedents in terms of shipping consumer devices, and people aren't quite sure what to make of them.
ATAP has shown off a working Project Ara prototype before, but this was a version that looked much more like a shipping consumer prototype than developer hardware, and it was the first time the company has publicly demonstrated installing a camera module and actually capturing an image.
Google Glass is still a pre-release product that's fairly rough around the edges, compared to a lot of shipping consumer hardware, but new clues (via Slashgear) from the latest firmware update suggest that there are a number of practical additions coming to the device.
Hardware startups, especially those dealing with novel input paradigms or wearable computing, have been multiplying sharply in the past couple of years, and recently we've seen a number that were initially crowdfunded via pre-orders deliver their shipping consumer devices.
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