And the image didn't blur--a common problem when contrast controls are set to extremes--meaning that the in-game text remained crisp and readable.

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However, the Lytro can't correct motion blur.

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As if on cue, the very first thing the user tests is the browser's multitouch support, revealing that performance could be an issue here -- even on the phone's OMAP3 core -- but the good news is that the presence of Blur doesn't seem to cause the home screen to stutter like we've seen on the CLIQ and DEXT.

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Gibson admits in the introduction that these pieces, some of which originally appeared in publications like Rolling Stone, Time and Wired, aren't quite nonfiction or fiction but, like all of his writing, blur the line between what's real and what's imagined.

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The Voodoo 5 5000 also features the T-Buffer Digital Cinematic Effects engine, which creates cinematic effects including motion blur, depth of field, soft reflections and soft focus.

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The team at Oculus isn't done optimizing yet, though, and promises that slight issues with motion blur (among other minor snags) will be ironed out ahead of launch.

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And when Blur later made a decent record that aped American indie rock, I still didn't care, except maybe for that little woohoo on their shameless hit "Song 2, " now best known as a TV commercial thing.

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But back in the '90s when his first band Blur was rising high in the self-impressed genre known as Brit pop, I couldn't care less about them.

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If the extra clarity and absence of motion blur make you wonder if Orlando Bloom's elf ear is crooked or an Ent isn't blowing in the breeze like a tree ought to, then we might get another 90 years of good ol' 24 frames per second.

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