Jozef Chúťka has did manage to create anaglyphs using Pixel Bender and displacement maps. The result is amazing!

There are multiple kinds of 2 color glasses used with anaglyphs but the demo in Jozef’s article is for the common cyan-magenta glasses.

To find out more read Jozef’s article: http://blog.yoz.sk/2010/06/anaglyphs-with-pixel-bender-and-depth-map/

The next release of Flex SDK is code-named Hero. It has three main goals:

• Multi-Screen Development: Allow developers to build applications that target the web, desktop or mobile devices using a single unified framework.
• Spark Maturation: Polish and grow the Spark architecture by adding new Spark components and capabilities.
• Large-Application Development: Support developers building large applications by improving fundamental Flex infrastructure pieces.

Previously, Flex for mobile was a separate branch code-named Slider. The rapid increases in performance on smartphone and the optimized performance of Adobe runtimes on these devices, now make it feasible to support Flex framework directly on mobile devices.

You can find out more reading this article on the official Flex team blog.

Serge Jespers did post an article regarding the new application Innovation Mecom has built for Dräger Carina medical device. The application is a simulation that reproduces all functions of the real device. So it is possible to get a real good impression of it even without using a real device.

Watch the following demo about it.

You can experience the application for yourself following this link: http://www.draeger.com/local/products/carina_trainer/start.html

You can read how it was developed on the creator’s blog: http://www.ketzler.de/2010/07/simulations-of-medical-devices-on-touch-devices-desktop-iphone-ipad-android/

Last two week I seen two great applications that make use of multi-screen experience capabilities of Flash Platform.

1. Androideroids by Grant Skinner
2. Desktop MP3 Music Player by Mihai Corlan

The first is a prototype multiplayer asteroids game in which each player uses an Android phone as their game controller. The player connects to the game and on the main screen he can see 3rd person view of the whole game while in the same time he can see the 1st person view on their Android phones.

The second one is a mp3 player that can be controlled by any numbers of Android phones. Mihai did the application using AIR and Flex Framework. The communication between the remote controls (AIR apps running on Android phones) and desktop player is done using the peer to peer features of AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1.

Demos of the running application can be found on each of the application pages. So take a look at them.

These two applications show the power of the Flash Platform for all types of devices: Computers, TVs, Phones, etc.

Enjoy!

Yesterday, Adobe has released AIR 2.0 runtime and can be downloaded at get.adobe.com/air/.

The new things in AIR 2.0 are:

• New Webkit with additional HTML5 and CSS3 support
• Multitouch and gestures
• Enhanced drag-and-drop support
• Enhanced socket support
• Enhanced printer interaction
• DNS resolution
• Local microphone API
• Native document handlers to open document
• Native process APIs
• Native installer
• Socket servers and peer-to-peer networking
• TLS/SSL sockets
• UDP networking support
• Global error handler
• IPv6 network support

I named just a few changes but there are a lot more, so please read the release notes.

If you to know even more read the Adobe AIR Team Blog article about the new AIR 2.0 at http://blogs.adobe.com/air/2010/06/introducing_air_2.html

Yesterday Adobe did release Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 7.

This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content. Consumers can try the prerelease of Flash Player 10.1 to preview hardware acceleration of video on supported Windows PCs, x86-based netbooks, and Android 2.2 supported devices. You can also help make Flash Player better by visiting all of your favorite sites, making sure they work the same or better than with the current player. We definitely want your feedback to help improve the final version, expected to ship in the first half of 2010.

Half a day ago new versions of Flash Player were released. I’m talking about Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate 6, Flash Player “Gala” for Mac OS X 10.6.3, Flash Player 10.1 for Android and a few other versions.

Flash Player “Gala” introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3 which should reduce the processor activity on YouTube or other video social sites. To bad there is no debug version for Flash Player “Gala” yet.

You can read more about these releases here and about “Gala” here.

Adobe published a few numbers about Flash Player, numbers that we may already know:

• 98% of Internet connected PCs have Flash Player
• 85% of the top 100 websites use Flash Player (Alexa)
• 75% of web video is viewed using Flash Player (Comscore)
• 98% of enterprises rely on Flash Player (Forrester)
• 70% of web games are delivered using Flash Player (Evans Data Corp.)
• 3.5 million developers use the Flash Platform
• 19 of the top 20 device manufacturers worldwide have committed to shipping Flash technology on their devices

Read more on Adobe’s article: http://www.adobe.com/choice/flash.html

Couple of days ago Ryan Stewart, Evangelist for Adobe, presented the latest version of Flash Player on Android. The versions we are talking about are 10.1 for Flash Player and 2.2 for Android (Froyo). He shows up the http://ecodazoo.com/ a full 3D flash site, Google Finance (http://www.google.com/finance?q=adbe), How I met your mother from CBS, etc.

See Ryan’s video bellow…

Kevin Lynch was speaking about the future of the Internet, Flash & HTML5 at Web 2.0 Expo and one of the many interesting things he said is this:

The technology issue, I think, Apple actually have with us is not that it doesn’t work, is that it does work.

The whole interview is great and I encourage you to watch it. And is not all about Apple .