3D Insights

iPhone 3D Camera With Panorama4D: Face Detection

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The big technology of today is looking to be 3D, with numerous smartphone makers working on pushing out 3D enabled devices, something Apple hasn’t yet done with their iOS gear. But that doesn’t mean iOS users have to miss out on that 3D action.

The Panaorama4D iOS app can apparently turn your iPhone into a 3D camera and works with the iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod Touch 4G and the Apple iPad 2 and is the first iOS app that enables the user to shoot 3D photos.

The Panaroma4D iOS app offers such things as Gyroscope 4D mode that delivers a 4D effect, face detection, the ability to share in 3D on Twitter and Facebook, and an Anaglyph 3D mode whereby the user puts on anaglyphs glasses to view a 3 dimensional show. Read more…

3D Erotic Movie A Hit In Hong Kong

The erotic movie ’3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy’ has become a huge draw in Hong Kong, a media report said.

Shanghai Daily reported Thursday that the pioneering 3D movie, which is $3.5 million Cantonese-language production, has beaten the first-day record set by ‘Avatar’. Read more…

Global Spending On Blu-ray 3D Booming Thanks To PlayStation 3

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One of the reasons 3D TV sales got off to a slow start was because of lack of content. Those gamers and early adopters who picked up a new 3D TV to try out their PlayStation 3 stereoscopic upgrade had very little to watch on it, or play. But with Hollywood now starting to release some of its biggest 3D movies on Blu-ray 3D, IHS Screen Digest research predicts that Blu-ray 3D (BD3D) sales will explode in the U.S. and major European economies this year.

“We certainly view gaming and video content as equal drivers of the 3D experience, and we know that the PlayStation 3 is the device that most people are choosing as their 3D player for the living room because it plays such a variety of 3D content,” said John Koller, Director of Hardware Marketing, Sony Computer Entertainment America. Read more…

How 3D TV Works

According to PC World:

If you want to see a 3D image in a 2D plane (on your HDTV), you need a way to show your eyes slightly different images—that’s how you “trick” your brain into perceiving depth. The easiest way to do this is to wear glasses that can help to present a different image to each eye. (Smaller displays, such as the one found on the Nintendo 3DS, don’t need glasses because the display itself is designed to show each eye a slightly different image, but this technology doesn’t work well enough for larger displays quite yet.) Read more…

Next For 3D Movies: Better, Brighter Technology for the Screen and For Your Glasses

There is no doubt that 3D movies are here to stay. The people who do such things came to CinemaCon, the annual gathering of that National Association of Theater Owners, attended by exhibitors, studios and manufacturers of movie going accoutrements from seats to snacks, to tell those in attendance what others changes are being brought by 3D.

For example, back in the day, 3D movies were projected on any old screen that happened to be hanging in the theater. Now, however, screens are specialized for exhibiting digital and 3D film. Read more…

3D Technology Could Brighten Solar-Industry Output

With the solar energy industry booming, companies large and small continue to look for ways to squeeze efficiencies out of decades-old technology. So why not 3D technology?

Santa Barbara-based startup Solar3D wants to harness concepts found elsewhere in high tech to increase the capture of more of the sun’s energy hitting solar panels and turning it into electricity.

“Our inspiration comes from fiber optics,” says Solar3D CEO Jim Nelson. “They manage the light to make it do what they want it to do, versus [flat] solar [panels] that just takes it as it comes.” Read more…

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.

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What Turns People Off From Buying 3D TV

Try as they might, Panasonic and Sony have yet to convince consumers that 3D TV is a necessity.

Released today, a new study commissioned by The NPD Group found that while people know more about 3D TV now, they’re not generally any more convinced of why they need one.

A year and a half into the 3D TV era kicked off by Sony and Panasonic and since joined by others, 45 percent of people who said they wouldn’t buy a 3D TV said the reason is it is too expensive. And 42 percent of people said the reason they wouldn’t buy one is because they don’t want to wear glasses. That’s an increase in both categories–just six months earlier only 37 percent said price was the inhibiting factor in their purchase, and 32 percent said wearing glasses was. But interestingly, the increase of people who were hung up on 3D glasses was larger than people who thought the TVs were too expensive.

This NPD study follows a survey Nielsen conducted last fall that found, among other things, that 90 percent of respondents said they wouldn’t want to wear glasses for 3D TV because it would hinder multitasking–like working on a laptop, or other things people generally do while sitting in front of the TV.

And therein lies the main problem with 3D TV. The prices of the sets will eventually fall–in fact it’s already happening, more on that in a moment–but we’re still not that close to not wearing 3D glasses while watching a 3D television at home. And unlike HDTV, which went from the new must-have feature to commodity item in less than half a decade, 3D TV still doesn’t feel like it’s anywhere near becoming as ubiquitous as HD despite the best efforts of TV makers.

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3D TV: Can you see it yet?

‘Early adopters’ – the geeks who have every gadget first – always pay the price. That has never been truer than with 3D. The first 3D TVs launched in the UK last spring, with an average price of £2,000.

The 2011 ranges are getting nearer the £1,000 mark and include a lot more choices of screen size. Neverthless, 3D is still very much a premium option – analysts predict it’ll take until 2014 for even 30 per cent of TV sales to be of 3D sets.

There will at least be something to watch, though. Read more…

Glasses Free 3D killing 3D TV Market

With the advent of 3D TV’s the general public have taken to the new technology, however there is now something that looks to put a stop to 3D TV!

No one likes to buy something that’s out of date, however the risk of 3D TV is high at the moment! Imagine inviting your friends round to watch the latest 3D Movie only to ask them to put on some £200 3D Glasses! Looking blankly at you they ask “Why? Don’t you have the latest 3D TV?”

Every week there is a news article talking about “Glasses Free 3D” (GF3D), basically saying that the new range of 3D TV’s will not require you to wear glasses at all. Also with the invention and release of the Nintendo 3DS demonstrating that the technology is possible, consumers are worried about buying into 3D TV’s that currently require 3D glasses. Read more…