J.D. Power and Associates Reports: 3D Capability Does Not Increase Consideration When Purchasing a High Definition Television
Only 11 percent of customers who purchase a high definition television do so because of its 3D capabilities, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 High Definition Television (HDTV) ReportSM released today.
International 3D Society and 3D@Home Consortium Announce New Officers and Board
Tom Cosgrove, Co-Chair of I3DS & 3D@Home and President & CEO of 3net.
Dan Schinasi, Senior Marketing Manager, Samsung Electronics America, and Co-Chairman.
Also named were: Chair-Elect Howard Lukk, VP, Digital Production Technology, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures with Mike DeValue, Director Advanced Technology as his alternate; 1st Vice-Chair/Treasurer Kappei Morishita, Vice President & General Manager PHL Advanced Authoring Center, Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory; Vice-Chair/Secretary Pete Lude, Senior Technology Executive, Sony Electronics and Toshino Yuhaku, SVP Alliances, Sony Corporation of America as his alternate; and Vice-Chair Phil Corriveau, Principal Engineer - Director User Research Group, Intel Corporation.
Jim Mainard, Head of Digital Strategy, DreamWorks Animation (DWA); Lenny Lipton, 3D Inventor; Jim Chabin, President and CEO, International 3D Society & 3D@Home; and Pat Dunn, Dunn & Pariser, CPA's will also serve on the Executive Committee.
Elected to serve on the Board of Governors were: Grant Anderson, Executive Director and Stereo Supervisor, 3D Technology Center, Sony Pictures; Chris Armbrust, Technical Director, THX; Matt Blute, Cinematographer; John Cassy, Director of 3D, bSkyb; Chuck Comisky, Stereo3D Design, VFX, Supervision, Chromium Labs 3D; Maria Costeira, CEO, XpanD 3D; Ron Geller, VP, Worldwide Content Relations of Dolby Laboratories, Inc., with Alternate Jana Spotts; Rick Heineman, SVP, Marketing and Communications, RealD; Kay Johansen, CTO, MobiTV; Louis B.J. Kim, Senior Manager, Samsung Information Systems America; Lily Knowles, VP Marketing, Vizio; Matt Liszt, VP Marketing, MasterImage 3D; Steve Schklair, CEO, 3ality Technica; William Sherak, President, StereoD; Lisa Truitt, President, National Geographic Cinema Ventures; and Bob Whitehill, Stereoscopic Supervisor, Pixar.
Elected Chairmen of International Committees were: ASIA: Masayuki Kozuka, General Manager of Media and Content Alliance Office, R&D, Panasonic Corporation; CHINA: Wenhua Ding, Chief Technology Officer, CCTV; KOREA: YY Park, Korea Telecomm; JAPAN: Takashi Kawai, Director for Department of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda University; EUROPE: Jacques Verly, Professor, University of Liege; and The U.K.: John Cassy, Director, 3D, bSkyb.
See the full press release here: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/international-3d-society-and-3dhome-consortium-announce-new-officers-and-board-2012-08-23
3D printers tell you when your design will fail
[Philip Lelyveld comment: back in my engineering days this was called 'strength of materials' design training. I'm surprised it wasn't implemented in 3D printer design software sooner.]
MAKE a mistake with your average office printer and the worst that happens is a paper jam and some wasted ink. Do the same with a 3D printer, though, and your newly realised creation - anything from a toy to a key piece of machinery - could crumble the second you start using it. That's because 3D printers cannot yet check if a digital 3D model will hold together when printed.
"Even when a model looks perfectly fine on your computer, its physical representation after 3D printing might not be structurally sound and it can simply break down," says Ondrej Stava at Adobe in San Jose, California. Now he and colleagues have developed software that can check whether printed models will resist gravity and rough handling, and fixes them if they can't.
Their program works out the most probable rest positions for a model, such as standing up or on its side and calculates the effects of gravity for each.
Read the full story here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528785.800-3d-printers-get-a-reality-check.html
Haute render: $900, custom 3D printed shoes are your next splurge
Continuum, which makes customizable or user-designed fashion, is now selling shoes made with a 3D printer. The Strvct line of footwear is based on a delicate but austere pump design or a similar sandal one; from there, users can ask for different colors, styles, or heel lengths. The shoes are then given a patent leather inset and the bottom is coated with textured rubber, making them (theoretically) wearable.
See the full story here: http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/20/3255745/continuum-strvct-3d-printed-shoe
Hollywood’s three ‘R’s in India: revisit, rehash, re-release
However, 3D is only one of the constituents of the rinse-and-repeat formula. The echo effect ultimately depends on how noisy the movie is.
See the full article here: http://www.livemint.com/2012/08/20170604/Hollywood8217s-three-8216.html
Swiss Supreme Court cancels LEGO’s 3D-trade mark
The Federal Supreme Court held that, given the eternal monopoly a 3-dimensional trade mark could confer on the sale of a product, a strict standard was appropriate.
Read the full story here: http://www.marques.org/Class46/article.asp?XID=BHA2942
3D audio-opera: Neither fully live or fully there? (VIDEO)
Clive Couldwell reports on AV’s first 3D audio-opera – Neither – which features a virtual orchestra, with only a single soprano on stage, situated right in the centre of the audience.
Watch video and see the full story here: http://www.avinteractive.com/features/42337/3d-audio-opera
These Wild iPhone Cases Are A DIYer’s Dream
With the advent of cheap 3D printing, I was wondering when someone would jump into the completely custom iPhone case market. Netherlands-based Polychemy has just released iPhone and Blackberry cases in five unique styles complete with 3D customizations.
The company is actually a bulk 3D printing provider and can produce objects in ceramic, metal, gold, and plastic.
See the full story here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/19/these-wild-iphone-cases-are-a-diyers-dream/
Sony Announces 3D Camcorder for Operation Microscopes
It is the industry's first general-use 3D camcorder that can be attached to commonly-used operation microscopes, the company said. There is no manufacturer's suggested retail price, but the expected price of the camcorder, "MCC-3000MT," is ¥2.6 million (approx US$33,129).
"We will promote the use of our 3D technologies, which we have developed for the field of consumer electronics, in the medical field," Sony said. "We will establish a position so that everyone will say, 'Speaking of 3D in the medical field, it's Sony.'"
See the full story here: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20120811/233651/?ST=english_PRINT
To 3D Or Not To 3D: Buy The Right ParaNorman Ticket
Final Verdict: I started this piece thinking I could point out whyParaNorman's 3D was good but not up to the rapturous standards ofCoraline, but as it turns out, ParaNorman's 3D is pretty terrific in general. That still doesn't make it strictly necessary to buy the 3D ticket-- you'll get just as much out of it in 2D, as friends who saw it that way tell me-- but if you want to get an even closer look at the movie's gorgeous stop-motion animation, the 3D won't disappoint you.
Read the full review here: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/3D-Or-3D-Buy-Right-ParaNorman-Ticket-32520.html