The 3D Bubble (infographic)
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It is no secret that Hollywood has gone crazy for 3D, every other movie appears to be “in 3D”, but is this really a revolution or is this just another fad that will fade away in a few years? Sortable.com has taken a look at the 3D movie industry to see if 3D is hear to stay or if the bubble is about to pop!
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Sortable 3D Bubble
Better 3D, voice control, more apps: How CES 2012 will advance the TV
More passive 3D, cheaper active glasses with a universal standard, better 3D PQ. Even with passive 3D's picture quality issues, its cheap glasses and practicality advantages over active mean that more TV makers than just LG, Vizio, and Toshiba will sign on to the passive bandwagon in 2012. Meanwhile active glasses will get cheaper and we'll hear about the Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative, a universal 3D glasses standard that allows interoperability between different makers' active specs. Finally I expect 3D picture quality for both active and passive technologies to improve, although I'm doubtful anybody will announce "full-resolution passive" at the show. ...
Bezel-less TVs. ...TVs such as this year's Samsung D7000 have shown the way with an incredibly slim bezel, ...
OLED. OLED won't be a viable technology until about 2015, but this year we'll see more bendy, wacky, and see-through OLED panels. Samsung and LG ...
1080p passive 3D. ... I think there will be 1080p passive TVs at the show, where the TV performs the shutter effect...
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Vuzix VR Manager 4 -Upgrade Allows For 3D Head-tracking in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Vuzix Corporation will announce the launch of VR Manager 4. The software upgrade will allow Vuzix VR users to create extensions that add 3D stereoscopic video and head tracking support to many Direct X and Open GL applications and games, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Vuzix’ Virtual Reality Manager 4 is the first software upgrade to put stereoscopic 3D video and tracker support in the hands of the end-user and gaming community. Users are no longer reliant on game developers or Vuzix to create extensions that allow for head-tracking and 3D gameplay with their favorite titles.
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Shroud of Turin in 3D
Philip Lelyveld comment: I'd file this under "bad idea."
The final work of the conversion from 2D to 3D by Bernardo Galmarini included the positioning of the 625 virtual camera shots, placed in a virtual lateral camera array, which was to be the basis information that the Dutch Holographic Laboratory needed to produce a Master-Hologram.
It also opened up the possibility to produce movies of the face and the front and the back of the body, moving from the middle to extreme left and extreme right and resulted in impressive pictures, which showed the 3D of the images very well. ...
See the full story and more videos here: http://shroud3d.com/conversion-process-of-2d-to-3d/3d-movies-of-head-body
Digital rock physics offers shale rock insight at molecular level
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there is great overlap in the underlying technologies used in entertainment, medical imaging, and oil & minerals research.]
Want to get so close to the Marcellus Shale that you can see its pores? You need digital rock physics.
This type of analysis uses medical scanners, such as CT scans and X-rays, to produce images of rocks at the molecular level, which allows geologists to study where in the rock oil and gas accumulates and enables them to calculate features such as permeability.
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Louvre Museum Replacing Audio Guides With 3DS Consoles
Nintendo will supply the museum with 5,000 3DS consoles in March, and visitors will be able to locate themselves in the Louvre via the stereoscopic 3D screen, then listen to recorded commentaries depending on whereabouts they currently are in the museum.
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Lisa Frank’s wide open art cave (3D immersive cave experience)
...There are fewer than 10 CAVES© in the country that allow for a fully immersive 3D virtual environment. CAVES© are typically used to prototype new devices, in this case, an unprecedented collaboration made possible by researcher Patricia Brennan and her Living Environments Laboratory who opened Madison’s CAVE© up to an experimental art project....
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Experience the future of Paris in 3D with Google
Google is taking over Paris one project at a time. Today, the web giant helped launch anew interactive exhibit at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal called Paris, le métropole et ses projets (Paris, a metropolis in the making). The highlight is a first-ever digital mosaic composed of 48 LED screens that feature 2D and 3D views of Paris through HD Google Earth images.
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Amon Tobin ISAM: A 3D projection electronica performance piece
“One thing I’ve noticed,” says Tobin, “is that evolution of technology and technology-driven music isn’t always in sync. I think this is because, in the end, creativity doesn’t really need technology. It’s very much the other way around.”
Watch the video of this electronica concert performance piece here: