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Check out the photo gallery for some highlights, and be sure to watch the videos to see the “Caramelldansen” 4chan meme in full effect.

Nintendo’s new portable, the 3DS, features some pretty amazing 3D technology that doesn’t require the player to wear glasses. Although I was skeptical going into the demo, I came away impressed. While traditional 3D movies create an effect where items pop out of the screen at you, the 3DS feels like their is depth to the screen, where the action is taking place inside of a shadowbox. Nintendo smartly has provided a slider to tweak the amount of 3D present, allowing players to disable the feature so they won’t get nauseous when playing on trains, planes, etc.  I also imagine the ability set the level of 3D means that games won’t require the feature to be enabled. After spending some time playing on the 3DS, I knew I wanted one.

Sony is taking a much more cinematic approach to their 3D implementation for the PS3. A player has to wear powered glasses, and the action comes out of the screen. I played some racing games to experience the technology, and was thoroughly underwhelmed. The glasses are uncomfortable and expensive, the effect blurred the graphics and made them murkier, and after a short time I started to get a headache. I don’t see myself going out to spend a fortune buying a set of goggles to allow for multiplayer fun, and I feel the same way about this that I do about 3D TV’s: meh.

Ultimately, I think Nintendo has come up with an innovative way to add a new dimension to gaming that really adds to the experience while Sony is pushing a technology to get us to spend more money on something that doesn’t make the game any better.

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Overall, it was a wonderful time and I couldn’t be happier for them.  Please enjoy these photos of the weekend festivities, and a video of their first dance to Rick Astley’s memetastic “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

Check out these videos for some of the highlights of the trip.  It was another amazing time in Austin, and I’m already looking forward to next year.  I should be fully recovered from this year’s by then…

The online conversation space has been historically undeserved, with outdated tools that create fragmented and unwieldy discussions.  Our mission is to help people engage in meaningful conversations about their passions.  Be it gadgets, cooking, Voltron, or whatever you may fancy, Gravity will provide users with a place to have discourse with other people who share their interests.  Traditional tools like forums, group email lists, and collaborative blogs haven’t offered users with simple, functional, and fun way to interact and share.  When we talk about what we’ve built, we like to describe it as a turn-based conversation site.  This isn’t about allowing for chatter, but instead about creating a destination where we provide a framework for people to better share and communicate.  We’re focused on building out the Interest Graph for the web to help people connect with their passions and discover people and topics that are personally relevant.  Additionally, we’re embracing the distributed nature of the web, current movements in open API’s and technology, and are looking at how we open up our technology while inter-operating with others.

Please check out this TechCrunch post that delves into more detail on the company and our mission, and be sure to follow us on Twitter at: @gravity.  This is an exciting moment for me personally and professionally, and I can’t wait to share more about the project, and more importantly, give everyone a chance to play with the product and tell me what you think.