‘Jackass 3.5’ Blazes Distinctive Path To Digital Platforms
Online weekly episodic release starting March 2011.
Thomas Lesinski, president of Paramount Digital Entertainment, presided over the launch of Jackass 2.5 and is back for 3.5. One key difference: 3.5 was shot simultaneous with the 3D film, while 2.5 was cobbled together 18 months after Jackass 2 was in theaters.
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3D-Enabled Mobile Devices to Surpass 60 Million by 2014
What In-Stat said:
- Autostereoscopic 3D is necessary for 3D mobile device consumer acceptance.
- By 2012, 3D-enabled smartphones will represent 45 percent of all 3D-enabled mobile devices shipments.
- Penetration rates will be highest in the handheld game console market segment.
- Tablets, smartphones, and handheld game consoles, will incorporate 3D more quickly than other portable devices.
full story here: http://www.televisionbroadcast.com/article/110018
Your portrait in 3D
Passionate about photography, Tassos Makrakis, Momento's lead photographer and co-owner, conducted extensive research and boldly added to Momento's repertoire of fine portraiture a new line of 3D portraiture. "Researching the possibilities of 3D photography has opened my mind to a whole new aspect of character portraiture.
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Current and potential 3D software producers for schools
Amazing Interactive offers teachers signing up for its forum the chance to play a part in the development of new software content, suggesting that if eight or more teachers suggest a particular idea, then they will build it: amazing-int.com
Designmate offers what it calls Universal Curriculum content: software resources open to adaptation worldwide: designmate.com/uc.html
Cyber-anatomy produces 3D content aimed originally at doctors and students in countries where dissection is culturally discouraged, but it clearly sees the schools' market as a way of driving sales. Check out how much it has adapted its software content for school use at: cyber-anatomy.com
JTMconcepts focuses strongly on physical geographical and geological content, according to reports on trials of software held in US schools:jtmconcepts.com
Virtualbiotk focuses on biology and structures of the human body, but there is little evidence as yet of specific content for schools:virtualbiotk.com
Full story here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/classroom-innovation/3d-software-producers-schools
Samsung Mobile Display Shows Off Flexible 3D OLED Concept
Samsung is starting to show that, here in the near future, one market they will be focusing on is going to be the foldable and flexible. Especially when it comes to consumer electronics. They took some time out of their busy schedule to showcase what they believe the next stage of home entertainment will look like. Their idea, is that you should be able to enjoy your 3D entertainment wherever you are in the living room, thanks to your TV being folded in a particular way.
Full story here: http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-mobile-display-shows-off-flexible-3d-oled-concept-at-fpd-international-30116927/
Eye boggling 3D telly outsells HD among early adopters (Updated)
Update - related story
Infogroup/ORC has conducted research which found in January 2010 that 6% of respondents either owned (1%) or expected to own (5%) a 3DTV within the next two years. The research firm estimates that this interest has since more than doubled to around 15%, with 4% owning a 3DTV and 11% expecting to purchase one within the next two years.
“Our research clearly demonstrates a significant growing interest in 3DTV,” said Wayne Russum, SVP and Director of ORC’s CARAVAN suite of omnibus services. “The household interest is at 15% which equates to approximately 17.5mn US households who either now own or intend to purchase the technology within the next two years. Given the average current price of a 3DTV, this finding should put smiles on the faces of retailers and manufacturers.”
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Eye boggling 3D tellies are selling faster than 2D High Definition TVs ever did, according to Futuresource, with UK 3D TV shipments for 2010 expected to hit 120,000 units.
The company is predicting global sales of 3D TVs to exceed four million this year with 1.2 million of those in Western Europe alone. Of those forecast sales numbers the UK comes third behind France and Germany.
The recent 40 per cent price cuts are expected to be followed by further price reductions as the technology gets cheaper.
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Strawberry picking robot
This robot uses cameras to detect the color and ripeness of strawberries, and harvests them by snipping the stalks, so it doesn't damage the fruits. It can harvest over 60% of a strawberry crop, taking nine seconds to pick each strawberry.
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Comcast Yule Log Goes 3D
PHILADELPHIA: Comcast is cablecasting its traditional “Yule Log” in 3D this year. The multichannel video provider runs The Yule Log channel every year during the Christmas season. Developed in 1966 by WPIX-TV chief Fred Thrower, the Log is simply a 24/7 video loop of a burning fireplace. Comcast said it had more than 4 million views on-demand during last year’s holiday season.
“This year, customers can watch The Yule Log in standard-definition, high-definition and in next-generation 3D, or pick from a dozen other holiday-themed screen savers to get into the holiday spirit On Demand,” Comcast said.
Comcast blogger Rose Farrales notes there is also a new Yule Dog singing Christmas carols and a radar screen for tracking Santa.
source: http://www.televisionbroadcast.com/article/109892
2 Kinects Used To Create 3D Images in Real Time
With every passing day, more and more of the technology created by Microsoft for their gaming device Kinect is broken down and reconstructed in new ways that might very well change the future of open-source technology. We’ve seen how the Kinect can be used to create new interfaces with PCs and other simple re-purposing, but it seems that we’re still waiting to see the demonstration that will prove just how revolutionary the technology may prove to be.
Now, YouTube user Oliver Kreylos may have done just that, combining multiple Kinect cameras to create an accurate 3D reconstruction of an object in real time.
See the full story here: http://gamerant.com/video-2-kinects-3d-image-dyce-54785/
Sony has ‘working holographic demos’ – almost
Sony's Mike Hocking has revealed that Sony already has working demos of "holographic" technology at its studios. Yes kids, it's The Future. Almost.
... Hocking explains he was referring to 3D and head tracking working together, not space-age stand-out holograms.
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Gran Turismo 5 has 3D and head tracking via the PS Eye, but it only (inaccurately) tracks the position of your head rather than the direction you look in. As DF ponders, we hope this 'holographic' stuff makes it into one of the many updates Kazunori Yamauchi has promised for the game.
Read the full story here: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=278087