Jeffrey Sanker Talks About the White Party 3D Experience (3D AUDIO)
Jeffrey Sanker, the premier producer of gay extravaganzas, is the founder of L.A.-based White Party Entertainment, Inc. I talked with Jeffrey about the White Party 3D Experience, which takes place April 6 through April 9 in Palm Springs, Calif., with Grammy-winning superstar Mary J. Blige as the headliner. ...
"White Party 2012 is going to be a 3D experience," said Sanker. He described "bigger and bolder LED and visual displays and immense stage and platform structures designed to stretch the limits of your imagination. The only lenses needed are your shades." ...
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To 3D Or Not To 3D: Buy The Right Titanic Ticket
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Final Verdict: 23 out of 35. It's a good score, but not a great one. Cameron's team did put an incredible amount of work into adding a new dimension to his epic tale of romance and tragedy, but the results can't truly compete with features planned for 3D. Still, Titanic is amazing on the big screen, and the 3D does make some scenes absolutely stunning. When buying your ticket it really just depends on what you want from your viewing experience. Because some things—like Billy Zane's wonderfully campy performance as the villain millionaire—cannot be improved upon by 3D, but some of the spectacle certainly is, and the rest really needs no improvement.
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A Look At Titanic’s 3D Makeover And Early Box Office Estimates
The video below, courtesy of iTunes, features writer/director James Cameron, producer Jon Landau, Stereo D president William Sherak, and Stereoscopic Service Supervisor Mike Hedayati discussing the process of turning Titanic into a 3D movie, and aiming to set the "gold standard of conversion." We also get a few glimpses behind the scenes...
As of today, Titanic 3D is available at 2,674 theaters. ...
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Cheaper 3D Boasts Titanic Entertainment
It's an occasion to look back at this once-hyped and overpriced technology, which has now morphed into a more low-key and accessible form. For sure, some 3D is still an exotic toy — spawning $18 movie tickets and Cadillac home-theater bundles. But it's also trickling into cheaper TV setups and humbler devices, such as phones and cameras.
Television
TVs capable of showing 3D content are still expensive. But it's really just a bonus that comes in sets with more compelling features, such as high-quality screens, slick design and Internet connections for accessing online video such as Netflix and audio such as Pandora, said Paul Semenza of analyst firm NPD DisplaySearch. Those will probably be your reasons to spend more for a set. ...
Cameras
As with TVs, 3D is slipping in as an extra in higher-end cameras. You would probably buy models such as the Sony HX7V ($280) and Nikon S6300 ($200) for features such as 10X optical zoom, full HD video and panorama photography. But it so happens they also capture 3D photos ...
Phones and game consoles
Oftentimes, the phone is your camera, and a few models throw in 3D, as well. ...
Along for the ride
... But unlike the real Titanic, 3D doesn't have to sink a fortune.
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Netflix Could Undermine UltraViolet As Low Cost Rentals Trash Studio Profits: Report
Moguls will need a stiff drink nearby when they read Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne’s bracing report today about the state of the home video business — and Hollywood studios. He says that film operations at Universal, Disney, Paramount, Fox, and Warner Bros are worth about $19.3B, down from $40.2B in 2007. And a big reason for the 52% drop is that studios’ annual home video profits from each TV household fell to $100 last year from $127 in 2007 — and will continue to slide to $93 in 2015. Sales and high-priced rentals of DVDs and Blu-ray discs from retailers such as Blockbuster are simply falling too fast as consumers discover that they can do just fine paying $1.20 a night to rent a disc at a kiosk — or less to watch a movie from Netflix. The analyst says it’s possible that studios will boost sales of discs with the UltraViolet initiative, which gives buyers opportunities to stream the movies to mobile and other digital devices. But probably not: Swinburne figures that Netflix users, who pay about $8 a month for a subscription, in effect pay just 48 cents for each movie that they stream. As a result, “the incentive to rent a film at $4-$5 or buy a digital copy at $10-$15 goes down considerably,” he says. “It suggests Netflix film deals are potentially an impediment to the success of UltraViolet.” Meanwhile, DVD sales are falling much faster than Blu-ray disc sales are growing. ...
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Scanner Will Capture Your Room, Give You 3D Replica [VIDEO]
When the Xbox Kinect came out in 2010, most people drooled over its ability to read gesture-based commands.
Matterport founder Matt Bell, however, was more excited about the prospect of low-cost, high-quality 3D imaging.
As a co-founder of a company that makes gesture-based interactive display advertising (such as virtual soccer balls that can be controlled by a kick), Bell spotted an opportunity to create a new visual technology.
He ended up using Kinect to make Matterport, a handheld device that instantly creates 3D renderings of any space.
Seconds after pointing the device around a room, you can browse a 3D replica on your laptop.
Here’s the simplified version of how it works: The Kinect creates millions of individual images as it scans the room. Bell’s software stitches those photos together in real-time in order to create one 3D mesh image that can be tilted, rotated and annotated.
“You can think of it as a giant 3D jigsaw puzzle with millions of pieces that needs to be solved in real time,” Bell tells Mashable.
He pitched his latest protoype, which no longer includes an actual Kinect, at startup accelerator Y-Combinator’s demo day last month. ...
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Masterclass: James Cameron And Jon Landau Teach Bleeding Cool The Dos And Donts Of 3D Conversion
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Jon Landau: You can say to a movie studio “Let me pay the bill” at dinner and they’ll say “No” because that’s what they do. Studios are in the business of saying no. They were sceptical about this conversion.
It cost $18 million dollars plus the cost to open and market the movie because in my mind, it’s not a re-release, it’s a new release. When people go back to see this in the theatres, it’s going to be a new experience for them.
But we did our due diligence. We took one minute of film from 5 different scenes in the movie and had 15 different companies convert it, and we stood back and watched all the versions. We found a company, Stereo D that we found we could work with, and we could improve what they were doing so that the end result would be something acceptable to us and creatively we’d feel comfortable. If we can say “Jim Cameron is proud of this” then we’re happy.
James Cameron: Stereo D had their in house artists and then their supervisors, and then there was my team who would receive the shots as works in progress and they would kick them back and turn them around five or six times before they ever came to me and I’d say what’s not working, and where we needed more or less depth or volume.
Shots were converted all out of order, then we’d view complete scenes, then compete reels. Sometimes it would bump a little bit as we went along so we’d adjust.
I found that in wide angle shots it was ...
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NBC/ABC trial Days Of Our Lives & Happy Endings comedy in 3D
During the 'Focus on 3D TV' conference at MIPTV, Spencer Stephens, Chief Technology Officer of Sony Pictures USA, revealed the company has partnered with 3ality Technica to prove 3D can work in scripted drama and comedy.
According to Stephens, most of 3ality Technica’s business has moved away from live 3D sport, as soap and comedy producers hire the company’s technology and expertise to trial what impact 3D could have on their lifestyle shows.
The MIPTV audience were presented with clips from 3D versions of the long running 'Days Of Our Lives' soap, produced by NBC. This was accompanied with a stereoscopic clip of ABC’s comedy series 'Happy Endings' and TV movie 'Battle of the Year: The Dream Team' (which, unlike the others, will be broadcast in 3D).
Stephen’s core message was that 3D for TV can be achieved working to a 2D schedule and for little extra cost. All three examples were produced working in conjunction with the regular 2D production crew – a process termed as '5D' by 3ality Technica. ...
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Hollywood formally brings ISPs into the anti-piracy fight
The country's top Internet service providers, along with major film and recorded music companies, announced that they have hired the person who will oversee their joint antipiracy efforts, scheduled to begin this summer.
Earlier today, CNET reported that Jill Lesser, who is currently managing director of the Glover Park Group, a lobbying and public policy firm, was the leading candidate to run the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), the organization that will help support the antipiracy program known as graduated response.
The ISPs and entertainment companies confirmed that Lesser has been appointed executive director of CCI. They also said CCI's advisory board will include a large number of privacy and technology advocates, including Jerry Berman, chairman of the Internet Education Foundation and founder of the Center for Democracy and Technology; Marsali Hancock, president of iKeepSafe.org; Jules Polenetsky, director of the Future of Privacy Forum; and Gigi Sohn, president and CEO of Public Knowledge. ...
"It was not an easy decision for me to join this Advisory Board," Sohn said in a statement. "I did so because I saw the need to be an advocate for the rights of Internet users and to provide transparency."
Sohn said that one of the first things she wants to see once CCI is up and running is to abolish any kind of service suspension.
"I will ask at the appropriate time," Sohn said, "for the ISPs to promise not to interpret the agreement's 'temporary restriction' provision as allowing for suspension of user Internet accounts."
EON Reality Releases EON Icube Mobile, the Smallest Fully Immersive 3D Experience (a small CAVE)
EON Reality, www.eonreality.com, the world's leading interactive 3D software provider, today announced the release of the new EON Icube Mobile, a portable multi-sided immersive environment in which participants are completely surrounded by virtual imagery and sound. It offers the most user-friendly interface -- from hardware setup to software deployment. This high impact 3D immersion solution benefits many different markets such as energy, aerospace, healthcare, AEC, education and entertainment.
The hardware construction truss frame is in a lightweight sturdy aluminum material that is easy to set up and it comes with a reusable shipping container for easy transport. It is a front projected systemconsisting of 120" Diagonal Size Screens with 4:3 aspect ratios. Ceiling height required is 9 feet (2.7 m) and display foot print required is 10 x 10 feet (3 x 3 m). The system cost starts at less than 30% compared to traditional Icube cost. ...
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