Surprise: “The Great Gatsby” Has Some of the Best 3D Ever Put To Screen
Gatsby was shot in 3D, and it shows.The director skillfully framed his shots with an eye towards the third dimension, with wind-swept curtains and confetti-spewing champagne bottles seamlessly travelling across the Z axis. The effect adds fun (indeed, it may one of the only fun things about the experience), without coming off as corny. Grand West Egg mansion halls seem to stretch on forever, and fireworks burst into background behind talkative characters’ headds. Best of all: The shots come off as both brightly lit and very sharp (dimness and blur are common sins of 3D filmmaking).
So lets give The Great Baz credit where it’s due: The Great Gatsby has some of the best utilization of 3D since Avatar.
See the full story here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/sethporges/2013/05/08/surprise-the-great-gatsby-has-some-of-the-best-3d-ever-put-to-screen/
3D/4D ultrasound hologram printing service
[Philip Lelyveld comment; They take a 3D ultrasound and impose predictable false color onto it to produce a "full color" in-utero 3D image of the fetus.]
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EMILY CARR’S S3D CENTRE PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH AWARD-WINNING 3D CINEMATOGRAPHER PHILLIPE BAYLAUCQ
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CinemaCon: Rival Companies Prepare For Immersive 3D Audio War
The battle over next-generation “immersive audio” is afoot, even if its top two major competitors are playing nice on the surface. For now. NATO’s pushing the theatrical innovation hard this year atCinemaCon, where industry leader Dolby scored crucial placement of its Dolby Atmos system in the main Coliseum theater for all major studio events. Today reps for Dolby and #2 rival Barco spoke in a panel discussion of how they, studios, and theater owners might work together to establish standards that would allow both Dolby Atmos and Barco’s Auro 11.1 immersive audio systems to co-exist.
Read the full story here: http://movies.yahoo.com/news/cinemacon-dolby-atmos-vs-auro-11-1-prelude-014824031.html
Sony’s badass 3D-shooting binocular now smaller, lighter, faster
The DEV-50V digital binocular is an improvement over the DEV-5 in every way. In addition to the 30 percent smaller and lighter body, and the new dust- and splash-proof construction, the old 7.1-megapixel sensor has been replaced with two 20.4-megapixel sensors that can shoot in ultra-low light conditions, including at night.
Other welcome upgrades include a max 25x digital zoom, image stabilization (yes!), and automatic autofocus and auto brightness (although a manual mode is available).
See the full story here: http://www.dvice.com/2013-4-24/sonys-badass-3d-shooting-binocular-now-smaller-lighter-faster
Wanted: A Print Button for 3-D Objects
To print a solid plastic apple on MakerBot’s $2,000 consumer printer, for instance, takes seven hours and costs $50 in supplies, so it’s no competition for cheap plastic goods made in China.
But the bigger obstacle to a 3-D printing revolution is that few consumers or designers can actually operate the software used to render objects and turn them into files that can be printed.
Lynx A 3D point-and-shoot camera/tablet does motion capture and 3D modeling, we go hands-on
...the Lynx A is billed as a point-and-shoot 3D camera that uses Kinect-esque hardware to obtain depth mapping and imaging info from your surroundings. Using GPU computing power and some custom code, it turns that data into 3D scene and object models or motion capture, and it displays the finished models on its 14-inch screen a minute or two after it's finished recording -- all for $1,799.
Read the full story and watch a brief video here: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/17/lynx-a-3d-point-and-shoot-camera-tablet-hands-on/
The Tupac Hologram: One Year Later
Although some people were pleasantly surprised by the Tupac projection, there are others who felt it tainted the artistry, or some who were just plain ol’ creeped out by it. This raises the ultimate question, Who can do what with the artists’ image in the event of their death?
Graphic companies who plan on re-enacting their own holograms should seek
permission from the estate, right of copyright, and information on right of publicity and false sponsorship and false endorsement.
“I wouldn’t mind it happening to me because that only means I left a dent in the game enough for them to want to bring me back. But if I’m still living, I’m against it. I don’t want to see a younger version of me up there,” Crooked I laughs. “It might be that way soon. What happens when the whole crowd is a hologram? What happens when nobody is going to crowds physically?”
See the full story here: http://thesource.com/2013/04/18/the-tupac-hologram-one-year-later/
‘Iron Man 3’ to Become First Film to Play in 4DX Format in Japan
Starting April 26, “Iron Man 3″ will be shown in 4DX (fourth dimension effects) at a theater in Nagoya, located in central Japan. The theater is operated by Korona World chain, which plans to screen 12 titles per year using the new format. 4DX can include tilting seats, blowing wind, odor effects, strobe lights and equipment built into the ceiling that can drop bubbles onto the audiences. A ticket will cost $13 for 3D and $10 for 2D.
“The 4DX system already is in use in theaters in China, South Korea, Thailand, Russia, Mexico, Israel and several countries in South America,” explains The Hollywood Reporter. “The first film to be shown in the format was ‘Avatar’ in 2009 in Seoul, where the company behind the system, CJ Group, is headquartered.”
CJ Group has plans to bring 4DX to the U.S. this year, and hopes to outfit 200 theaters over the next five years.
Read the full story here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/iron-man-3-become-first-440359
New $443 3D scanner on sale: “Looks awesome. Shoots lasers.”
Weeks after 3D printing startup Makerbot announced that it would be selling a 3D scanner, a Canadian startup called Matterform has upped the ante: a C$450 ($443) “Photon 3D Scanner.”
“We built [the Photon 3D Scanner] in mind for anyone with a 3D printer,” Drew Cox, one of Matterform’s co-founders, told Ars. “It’s a less complicated machinery [than a printer]. It doesn’t have the same amount of moving parts that a 3D printer has. There’s a rigidity that printers need to have. We don’t have to have a lot of weight. When it comes to price, it just ended up being [relatively low-cost].”
Read the full story here: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/04/new-443-3d-scanner-on-sale-looks-awesome-shoots-lasers/