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February 8th, 2011

The 3D Camera in the Nintendo 3DS saves photos in the open .mpo file format

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Good news everyone! Not only can you capture 3D photos with your Nintendo 3DS, but you’re able to transfer these photos to your computer via your SD card in the open .mpo file format. This means that they can be easily viewed on 3D-enabled computers, digital picture frames and televisions. And, I imagine you could use some fancy tech wizardry to take this sort of file and make it viewable in that old-school form of red and cyan type of 3D. That might not really be necessary, but it’s nice to know the option should be possible.

…and at least we can breathe a sigh of relief that Nintendo aren’t using some funky proprietary format.

  1. Vinay

    Awesome! :D :D

    And I dont care whether I’m first or not.

    1. Sylverstone Khandr

      Thank goodness. A good thinker.

    2. skywardsword

      Don’t bring it up, if that’s the case…

    3. abujaffer

      @skywardsword You’ve done it before…..

  2. Sylverstone Khandr

    Glad to hear this news.

    I have my pair of red-cyan 3D glasses here, and it’ll be cool to enable 3D on the photos.

    1. Craig

      Why would you need to wear them, you do know the 3DS is 3D without glasses right? And not the red-cyan type either. You don’t sound like you’ve heard a lot but I might be mistaken and misunderstood….

    2. Brown_Yoshi

      You need the classes if you want to see the photos in 3d on your computer or elsewhere

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  4. bananaoomarang

    ahhhh, that’s awesome Nintendo! I love you for using an open format!

  5. knight_dAniel

    maybe nintendo is listening to the claimers.
    C:
    thats why they use open file format.

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  7. Birthbisleep

    Awsum btw skywardswordgay

  8. ffdgh

    lol its been confirmed since january 19 that it has mp3 support.

  9. WingedOne

    Is there a program that I can use to combine two .jpg or .bmp images into a single .mpo image?

    I want to try making some computer-generated 3d images to display on the 3DS.

    1. WingedOne

      I was able to find some stuff about splitting .mpo files into single images, but I want to to the opposite.

      Anyone know?

    2. WingedOne

      “want to to” = “want to do”.

      Arghh!

    3. Jesse

      Try googling it. :P

    4. WingedOne

      I’ve already tried Googling it.

      I’ve only been able to find software that will convert from .mpo to .jpg, but not from .jpg to .mpo.

    5. WingedOne

      I found something here that might work:

      http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/

  10. TheGeekyOne

    It’s good that they’re using an open format. It’s even better that they’re using one that basically contains two standard JPEG files which I gather can be split apart ( http://www.srphotos.co.uk/wordpress/?p=574 ). :D This has suddenly made the 3D camera a lot more interesting to me (and it was already pretty interesting to me to begin with!).

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  13. sexiboy

    open format 3D also mp3 and aac ready most likely also mp4 or other… compatible sound and media fully covered witch is kind of obvious with the media and 3D media side of things..

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