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Back at full strength the Dogear Guys have a great big show for you. We enjoy a very full 3D Internet section this week, while trying not to die from 3D. Andy tells us why 3D is crap, even though he loves 3D worlds. Nokia and others give Apple some help in dealing with their attenna problems on the new iPhone 4. While Apple unveils their latest product – the iHand. Andy and Michael even get into a bit of a tussle over wireless network providers.

What’s cool?
Andy — Folding Matter and Dancing Paint
Michael R — Tim Burton’s Art
Michael M — You preserved my Battleship! 3D views of one of the 16 inch turrets

Obligatory 3-D Internet
3-D without the glasses epredator
3D video hazardous to your health wideawakewesley
3D can damage children’s eyes allerhed
Gulf oil spill in 3D epredator via lx5
Rezzable unifies Unity and OpenSim epredator

Mac-a-roni
How to hold a Nokia andypiperuk
Wriststrong bracelet to fix iPhone4 reception heidigoseek
Talk to the iHand! andypiperuk
Windows on iPhone heidigoseek

Social Networkin’
Coffee coupon for you, Buck, buda-buda-buda heidigoseek
6% of people consume 50% of mobile data heidigoseek

Final thoughts
Michael R — Internet is made up of cats
Andy — Help when Checking in your code
Michael M — Waze taps into Geo Tweets

bonus links
Why 3D is so 1950′s
The vSide – That music world Michael talked about
Get your Tomaccos here
It’s the Falcon!
Hippo Remote Pro

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Michael and Michael welcome Phaedra Boinodiris, from the IBM Serious Games team, to the show. We are recording our first show with all the participants in the same room. We discuss games, gaming, and the future of, you guessed it … games and gaming. Oh yeah, and the iPhone 2.0 upgrade and 3G came out today.

Obligatory 3-D Internet Section
Lively by Google
SL / IBM intravirtual world teleport
Lego Universe
Virtual World timeline

Games for health
Wii Fit
Eyetoy
Humana — pedometers on kids… (like the nike+ipod?)
Bogost
Emsense

Dark Knight — pain management – http://www.warnervideo.com/batmangothamknight/

Future of gaming
Neverwinter nights — be the puppetmaster!
Doom
Raph Koster — star wars galaxies
World of Warcraft
Lord of the Rings Online

iPhone 2.0 / 3G upgrade event
Problems with iPhone Activation

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