3D open house, Entertainment Technology Center, USC School of Cinematic Arts
ElectricTV.com sent a reporter to last Monday's ETC 3D Lab press event.
See their highlight video of the lab tour above and here, and read their story here:
USC 3D Technology Center a trailblazer for the 3D Summit
In anticipation of the 3D Summit now taking place at the Hollywood/Highland Center, the people at the Entertainment Technology Center at USC put together a presentation on Monday, September 19th 2011 including a guided tour by Mr. Phil Lelyveld—Center Director who graciously conducted a tour and directed our attention toward the future of 3D.
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RePro3D: Naked-Eye 3D Display Lets You “Touch” Virtual 3D Characters (Video)
Using past methods to display 3D images, it was hard to perfectly match the positions and images users were touching on the 3D display. But with this technology, it feels like you are touching the exact spot as you see it. In the future, they plan to build a touchable 3D display system that expands the size of the visible image, so that multiple people can be in the same space, and can share the same image.
Watch the video here:
MIT Shows Off New 3D Printing Projects
A new video released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the birthplace of 3D printing, provides a glimpse of how researchers continue to push forward on the new technology. Graduate students and professors are making strides with projects as varied as printing full meals, housing, and fully assembled cuckoo clocks. There's even an ongoing project to 3D print a 3D printer.
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Apple patents 3D display with holographic images and Kinect-like gesturing
...the patented system generates an invisible 3D space in front of the user and allows them to work with holographic images. It can also project the user’s hands onto a screen where they can manipulate virtual objects. ...
Under this patent, the virtual items in this 3D space can include nearly any object that can be grasped and manipulated within the virtual space, including sheets of paper, hand tools, paint brushes, pencils, pens, knives, scissors, etc. ...
See a detailed story on the patent with multiple diagrams here
Polaroid Eyewear Launch Professional 3D Glasses Collection
Polaroid’s 3D glasses use circular polarised lenses for viewing content on passive displays targeted towards professionals and producers of 3D content.
These first two styles feature interchangeable lenses which are produced using exclusive Thermofusion TM to ensure distortion-free vision. These can be removed and replaced with regular sunglasses lenses. ...
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NASA Stereo 3D Camera Rig Offers New Horizons for Film and Television
School Safety Summit announced today that a new panoramic 3D motion picture camera rig developed at MIT under 2 NASA contracts, and capable of producing stereoscopic 3D cinema spectacles that completely surround the audience, will be tested by Colorado education leaders and community partners to visualize the schools of tomorrow.
...New image blending techniques take image data that is transmitted wirelessly and provide an extended panoramic view in which the combined images form a full circle, or movie cyclorama. Images can also be combined so that the cycloramic view extends upwardly or downwardly to create a continuous, unobstructed, omnidirectional image that extends a full 4 pi steradians....
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Eighth Annual Extreme Redesign Challenge by Dimension 3D Printing
...The global contest encourages students to submit an innovative new product design, a redesign of an existing product, or an original or redesigned work of art or architecture. ...
Dimension 3D Printing will award nine student winners either $2,500 or $1,000 scholarships in the categories of Middle School and High School Engineering, College Engineering, and Art & Architecture. Designs are awarded based on creativity, usefulness, part integrity and aesthetics. Instructors of the three first-place student winners will receive an Apple iPad for use in the classroom. Since the contest's inception, more than $90,000 in scholarships have been awarded to students.
Each submission must:
-- be a sound mechanical design
-- be realistic and achievable
-- include a clear written description of the design.
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3D Systems Selected by Georgia Tech and DARPA for MENTOR Program
High Schools Receive Hands-On 3D Printing Experience
3D Systems Corporation announced today that it has been chosen by the Georgia Institute of Technology to provide its personal and professional 3D printers to select high schools across the U.S. as part of The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach (MENTOR) program.
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Jealous clan chief’s Canna jail in 3D survey by RCAHMS
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RCAHMS said the ruins were difficult to survey using conventional methods.
Instead its surveyors used a laser scanner to build up a detailed 3D picture of the external walls from below. Several scans were made from different angles.
Engineers will use the 3D images to measure the size of gaps in the castle's stonework.
The information will be used by the National Trust for Scotland (NTS), which owns Canna, to aid in its conservation.
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