3D TV penetration to grow 50% in 2013
Spurred by rapid consumer acceptance, the 3D TV’s market penetration is projected to exceed 10 percent in 2011 and 50 percent in 2013, overtaking connected or Internet TVs. Consumer demand has also prompted local technology companies in Taiwan to develop and release new lines of 3D and Internet-enabled televisions in the second half of this year.
Leading these companies are Chimei Innolux (CMI), which announced plans to adopt active 3D TV panels for its large-size LED TVs, and BenQ, which will adopt passive 3D panel technology for its 3D TV product lines. Read more…
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Nvidia Releases Web-Streaming 3D Vision Video Player Technology
Last month, Nvidia announced major changes to its consumer 3D Vision kit for adding stereoscopic 3D capabilities to home PCs, including a lower price and longer battery life. But 3D Vision owners may soon have even more content to sample, as Nvidia announced today that it is making its 3D Vision video player technology freely available to Web developers, with the intention of simplifying the process of creating Web sites that stream 3D content to 3D Vision–equipped PCs.
The technology comes by way of a special plug-in Nvidia has developed for the open-source Microsoft Media Platform Player (MPP) Framework v2.5 (formerly known as the Silverlight Media Framework). The plug-in supports active-shutter 3D glasses, and is based on the same technology used on Nvidia’s 3DVisionLive.com 3D Web community. The framework includes full support for both IIS Smooth Streaming and Microsoft Playready DRM.
Categories: 3D Gaming, 3D Insights, 3D Internet, 3D Progams, Living In 3D Tags: 3d player, 3d streaming player, 3d web player, NVIDIA, streaming player, web player
What Can 3D Do for the Web?
Electronics manufacturers are still trying to pull together the right mix of conditions necessary to make 3D TV reach critical mass in consumer popularity — price, content, standards, etc. Could the Web be an easier channel through which 3D can blossom? It may be easier to distribute content, but hardware runs into a familiar chicken-and-egg problem.
In 2009, director James Cameron made people love seeing 3D movies in the theater again. In 2010, electronics companies began offering the first in-home stereoscopic 3D TV sets, and content providers launched Blu-ray 3D and broadcast 3D channels.
Now it’s 2011, and there are still big changes happening in the 3D space, but there’s one major source of media and entertainment that hasn’t really come a-knocking to the 3D door yet.
It’s surely only a matter of time before the Web starts going to a new dimension.
Categories: 3D Internet Tags: 3D, 3D Internet, 3D Technology, 3D web, 3D websites
YouTube’s New Support for 4K Video Resolution Means Better Stereo 3D
YouTube has officially announced that now they support upload and playback of videos with resolution of up to 4K (up 4096×2304 or 2304p and of course also 4096×2160/3840×2160 pixels or 2160p), and although this is not something that every normal user will be able to take advantage of at the current moment, it is still a good move.
Actually the update of the supported resolution is more interesting move for people that are working with stereoscopic 3D video than to those that work with higher resolutions than Full HD 1080p (1920×1080). The reason for that being is that commercial cameras that offer recording in 4K 2D resolution like the RED Camera for example are quite expensive for a normal user to afford, but using two consumer grade Full HD cameras you can record stereo 3D video on the cheap and get it in Side by Side format with resolution of 3840×2160.
Then you can upload the video in its full resolution and everyone will be able to watch it in its original intended quality in 3D, instead of having to rely on 1080p with half resolution, because of the image being squashed in order to fit into the old supported video format, although this mode will still be available for compatibility reasons with some 3D hardware.
Categories: 3D Internet Tags: 3D, youtube, youtube 3D, youtube 4k video support
3D Internet Forecast Within 5 Years
A technology guru at Intel Corp. predict that the internet will look significantly different in five to 10 years, when much of it will be three dimensional, or 3D.
Sean Koehl, a technology evangelist with Intel Labs, said technology is emerging that will one day change the way we interact with electronic devices and with each other. That could come as soon as five years from now when, he predicted, there will be realistic-looking three-dimensional applications.
Categories: 3D Insights, 3D Internet, 3D Technology Tags: 3D, 3D experience, 3D Internet, 3D Technology, 3D web
Google trying anew for a 3D Web
Two related projects from Mozilla and Google, each with the similar goal of bringing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the Web, appear to be joining forces after a change in Google tactics.
The two projects emerged at nearly the same time in 2009: the O3D browser plug-in from Google and the proposed WebGL standard from Mozilla and the Khronos Group, which standardizes the OpenGL graphics interface on which WebGL is based. O3D is a higher-level technology, whereas WebGL is more concerned with the nuts and bolts of 3D graphics.
O3D lets browsers show accelerated 3D graphics such as this island scene. It’s tailored for tasks such as first-person shooters or virtual worlds.
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