My 3D photos never turn out this cool ⊟

It's hard to take an awesome photo with the 3DS's camera -- the feature was obviously built with gameplay functions in mind and not for taking high quality shots. This is still the coolest wigglepic I've seen taken with a 3DS.

The above shot turned out so cool because No Anchor took it with a fancy Nimslo stereo camera. I hope someone caught the Game Boy Color and that it's now in the hands of someone who loves the portable.

By the way, if you're looking for a new site to post your 3D photos to (now that 3D Porch is just an archive), upload them to Stereotastic with your 3DS!

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A Secret of Mana winter scene by Mikael “Orioto” Aguirre

You can see a much larger version of the artwork, download it as a wallpaper, or purchase it as a poster here.

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Wigglepic'd screenshots of Cave Story for 3DS, coming to eShop October 4 for $10. Its features, according to developer and publisher Nicalis:

Ready to however-many-times-it-is-dip on Cave Story? I really like Cave Story a lot, yall.

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An informal Steve Jobs memorial set up outside of an Apple Store in London, shot by Super Jezmeralda.

Two news items about 3DS photography:

Wigglepics forever.

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[Via Super Jezmeralda]

It was a close call, but it looks like 3D Porch, the site for uploading and sharing 3DS photos and wigglepics, won't be closing after all. Site admin Phil Dhingra says he can reduce his hosting expenses to break even on the service (thanks to some suggestions and free hosting offers), and has turned the uploading feature back on. Yay!

On a related note, I was browsing photos at the site and kept seeing these ads for The Babe Dimension (SFW), a $1-a-month membership site that features "3D pictures of Hot Chicks streaming directly to your 3DS web browser."

It's all very silly and pervy, but the site claims to be raising cash to help save endangered pandas, though it's not specific on how your money will accomplish that. Of course, this could all be a scam, and some Ukrainian mobsters might end up emptying your bank account, kidnapping you, and feeding you to ravenous pandas kept as pit fighters, so, uh, keep a look out for that.

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[Image via BlowTheReactors]

3D Porch on the verge of shutting down

3D Porch, probably the most popular site for people to upload and share their photos taken with a 3DS, will cease to exist as we know it, according to a letter posted last week by the service's admin Phil Dhingra.

He explains, "I've come to the point where I can no longer afford the time or money to maintain 3D Porch. I've been running it at a financial loss ever since it started." Dhingra says he's tried to monetize the site in various ways, but none of those options worked, and that "3D Porch would have to be 5x more popular to break even, and 10x more popular to even give [him] a decent trickle of income."

And so he's turned off uploads, and intends to remove 99 percent of user photos in the coming weeks.

The site isn't completely doomed yet, though, as he updated his letter to note that he's "currently looking for other options to keep the site up". Dhingra is considering a "booster club pledge drive thingy" and applied to donation-ware platform Kickstarter seven days ago, but he hasn't posted any news on that front since.

The dream solution would be Nintendo of America swooping in to save the site (and likely closing down its secret NSFW section), but it's doubtful that will happen.

If 3D Porch were to close, it would be a serious blow to the 3DS community -- where else would we convert pet photos into wigglepics? Think of the wigglepics, people.

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[Image via Apsspa]

More video game art transformed into 3D and wigglepic'd by Orioto (click for larger versions; they might take a while to load). You can see these in their actual 3D forms via your Nintendo 3DS's web browser at these links:

If you're curious about wigglepic-ing your own artwork, Orioto put up a neat tutorial you can use! 

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[Via Orioto]

More 3D Mario art by Mikaël “Orioto” Aguirre. After seeing a favorable response to yesterday's experiment on a certain influential blog, Orioto converted another of his digital Mario paintings to 3D, available either in wigglepic format or as a 3DS browser-friendly MPO here. 

He then did the same for some of his Sonic artwork:

3D Sonic that looks cool! Miraculous!

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"Foret en Fleur" by Mikaël "Orioto" Aguirre, made into an .MPO and wigglepic'd on 3D Porch. Orioto made a 3D version of his "impressionist" Super Mario World piece for viewing on 3DS browsers, as a "test."

Being one of the most impressive, convincingly deep 3D images I've seen, I'm going to call it a successful test. You can look at the MPO yourself through that 3D Porch page with the Nintendo 3DS web browser, and a big version of Orioto's original artwork here.

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Beyond the Labyrinth wigglepic. Konami released three 3D screenshots of tri-Ace's 3DS dungeon RPG yesterday -- as we all suspected, those first, stunning images were a bit optimistic (read: not actual 3DS screens), and it's looking more like something a 3DS could actually produce now. But it still looks really nice! 

If you'd like to see the rest of the screens, they're on the official site, where you can download them there. However, Inside-Games, 4Gamer, Dengeki, Famitsu, and GAME Watch each have an exclusive screenshot included with their ZIPs of the set. And if that sounds like too much work for you, you could always just load up this page in your 3DS's built-in browser.

We still don't really know anything about how this game plays, and most of these screens are just a girl looking at the camera, and therefore not really helpful in that regard. But you'll totally get a good idea of what that girl looks like, and that's ... something!

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Chill dog wigglepic'ing around at the Sears parking lot. No big deal, just hanging out in the back of this truck.

Two related items:

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[Via Nintendo Camera Club]

Gabrielle's Ghostly Groove screenshot, wigglepic'd. Santa Entertainment posted a bunch of MPO screenshots of its cute 3DS dancing game, which you can download and transfer to your 3DS, or just check out in the 3DS browser, here. Where else are you going to see a mummy bear dancing in 3D? Hopefully nowhere, for the sake of your safety.

If you're totally into the adorable character designs in this game (like if you're some weirdo who posts about it on this game blog), you can adorn your Twitter profile with some new icons and a background here, and find even more papercraft models here. You'd damn well better believe I'm going to make these! When I have time to do that!

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Reggie Fils-Aime announcing 3DS games at E3 ... in 3D. It's like you're there, in the red-wristband section of Nintendo's E3 conference! For one moment frozen in time forever!

I would have taken more pictures, but I was actually there to take several hundred pictures (with a real camera) for Joystiq's liveblog, which I would love to think that some of you were following. This was the first time since I've gone to E3 that I didn't write the text for the liveblog -- Griffin McElroy covered that admirably -- but those pixxxx were all me.

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Wigglepic, just a little bit

Thanks to the 3DS's two external cameras and the very useful 3D Porch sharing site, wiggly pictures like this one of a dog staring wistfully out the window are the thing. Sharing 3D photos on non-3D displays is difficult, but creating a GIF animation from the left/right photos is the next best thing. Why? Because it's wiggly.

We've done our part to feature outstanding wigglepics here, but a couple blogs have popped up to serve this fad's fanbase, some of which we've collected here:

Three more related links:

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[Thanks, DavidRY!]

If you're too impatient to wait for Nintendo to bring Paper Mario and Mario Kart to the 3DS, here's a way to at least see what those games would like with the stereoscopic 3D effect! GBAtemper Eighteen created a buttload of screens for games like Sin & Punishment 2 and Super Smash Bros. Brawl that you can load into your system.

He also made 3D images for third-party releases like Muramasa (wigglypic'd above), Fragile Dreams, No More Heroes 2, and The Last Story. You can download the MPO files for your Nintendo 3DS here.

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[Via BY2K]

3D picture of a 3D picture of a pizza, posted to 3DPorch by Jessicatz. This image, made using 3DPorch's "wiggle" option, is like a glimpse of the future, with a damn personal pan pizza on the other side!

Not only is it the first 3D picture I've seen of either a 3DS or a pizza, but it's also the first picture I've seen in which you can see the 3D effect in action on a 3DS screen. I have a 3DS right here and I still think this is mesmerizing. 

If you want to see this picture of a 3DS, shot by a 3DS, on your 3DS, you can download the MPO file, and see other 3D options, here.

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My cats... IN 3D. A new site called 3D Porch lets you upload MPO files from devices including the 3DS, and share them as either "wiggle" or anaglyph 3d images -- I chose the wiggle variety for two reasons: 1) lol, and 2) I can actually see this 3D effect!

As a result, I'm learning a bit about 3D photography. For example, the further away I am when I take a picture (see Indiana on the floor there), the more "3D" it appears instead of merely "the same picture taken simultaneously with two cameras". 

Happy Caturday!

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[Via @brandonnn, who has been documenting SXSW stuff with his 3DS]

Update: In case you can't see the images correctly, here they are inlined: