PETER JACKSON EASING 3D EYESTRAIN FOR THE HOBBIT? (48 FPS)
[by Martin Anderson and Calvin Peat, Shadowlocked.com]
We've written a fair bit about the health issues of watching 3D movies. No, you're not going to go blind, likely as not, but you might be one of the many who suffer splitting headaches or even not be able to participate in the 3D magic at all. Now Peter Jackson is determined to spare us any more cranial collapses by shooting the Hobbit cycle at 48 frames per second, bucking 90 years of filming and projecting tradition at only half that speed.
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iPad 2 gets glasses-free 3D display using front-facing camera for head tracking
Now that the iPad 2 has a front facing-camera and some decent horsepower under the hood, there's a lot of potential for really interesting camera-plus-screen coordination hacks. The clever folks over at the Engineering Human-Computer Interaction Research group have managed to combine a feed from the front-facing camera, with a bit of software wizardry, to track the position of a person's head in 3D in real-time.
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(CNET) What turns people off from buying 3D TV
[Excerpt] Part of the reason people say they wouldn't want 3D glasses is that those people "are not seeing the value proposition of having 3D at home yet," argues Phil Lelyveld, manager of the Consumer 3D Experience Lab at USC's Entertainment Technology Center.
Most people have still not been exposed to 3D outside a movie theater and can't imagine what that would be like at home or why they need it, he says. "Which is why I see the 3DS as an important gateway to experiencing 3D in the home" for less than the cost of buying a TV set.
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Get in on action with first-ever 3D broadcast of match here
Leinster fans who missed out on tickets can feel like they're pitchside tonight thanks to the first ever 3D broadcast of a rugby match in Ireland.
By using the Sky 3D pub finder, supporters could find the nearest venues to Lansdowne Road which are showing the match in such high quality.
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3D porn film ‘sells thousands of tickets’ (China)
3D porn film Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy is about to open in Hong Kong and has already sold thousands of tickets, with people preparing to travel from mainland China to see it.
Reports suggest that thousands of Chinese people from the mainland have snapped up tickets because they won't be able to see an uncut version at their local cinema. There are even reports of tour groups being set up to bus people to screenings.
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Civil War Trust offering teachers new 2-week curriculum, complete with 3D photos from 1860s
Seventy percent of the photos taken during the war were shot in 3D so they could be viewed in a device called a stereoscope. "And that's something that blows most students' minds," Koik said.
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GoPro Launches 3D HERO® System; World’s Smallest 1080p 3D Camera. Professional Quality at a Consumer Price.
GoPro, the world’s leading activity camera company, today announced the availability of the much anticipated 3D HERO® System, a waterproof 3D expansion kit for GoPro’s best selling 1080p HD HERO camera. The 3D HERO System is available immediately at GoPro.com and is shipping to GoPro retailers worldwide with an MSRP of $99.99
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Sir Simon Rattle concert to be screened in 3D
An orchestral concert will be screened in 3D at cinemas across the UK for the first time, organisers have said.
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Foo Fighters to Broadcast Gig Live – and in 3D – in Multiplexes Tuesday
The Foo Fighters will become one of the first bands ever to play a live, 3D show broadcast to movie theaters all over the country when it takes the stage in a studio in the San Fernando Valley Tuesday.
"It's an example of the great types of new and innovative content that they can put in their theaters -- particularly during the weekdays, when the average audience is less than 5 percent of the seats," he said.
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Apple exploring multi-camera iPhone systems for 3D picture taking
Apple has toyed with the idea of adding two or more rear-facing cameras and sensors to a device like an iPhone, allowing pictures to be taken and displayed in 3D.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week revealed a patent application from Apple related to 3D picture taking, entitled "Systems and Methods for an Imaging System Using Multiple Image Sensors." First discovered by AppleInsider, the filing describes a system that would capture, process and render 3D images with the accompanying dual-camera hardware.
The application refers to Apple's approach as a "paradigm shift from the known software-based approaches." It notes that current software must "guess" at how to perform stereo disparity compensation for 3D images.
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