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3D, Cameras, Technical, Techniques

3D isn’t awful – its the bad 3D that’s awful!

I went searching through Youtube this evening for 3D content and found plenty of it – and plenty of it was basically awful!

Badly misaligned left and right eye views, edge violations, poor quality 2D-to-3D conversions. Not the sort of quality that will encourage others to enjoy 3D.

It is good to see people trying to do 3D – but it will take time for new enthusiasts to learn how to shoot and process 3D correctly. As 3D hobbyists ourselves, we need to help teach others how to create good quality 3D.

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Movie critic argues the world is a flat surface and 3D is not needed

Critic insists the world around is a single flat surface and agrees to remove one eye ball since it is not needed anyway, says 3D is useless: Hollywood and Fine – Marshall Fine Blog » Blog Archive » Why 3D doesn’t matter.

Presumably he thinks the advent of “talking” pictures did not add value and the later introduction of color, well that just added distractions from the story! In fact, let’s go back to theater stages – no, let’s just go back to books – no, let’s just go back to oral story telling!

Does the world need movie critics? No. In one city where we used to live, the local paper’s movie critic larded his reviews with French phrases and citations to exotic foreign films, usually labeling the American made movie as pointless. At which point we knew it would be a good movie for us to see!

3D, Business

Global live 3D broadcast via Internet demo’d in November

I think 3D will take hold on the Internet before broadcast 3D really gets underway:

Taking place between November 26th-30th, thousands of Internet viewers all over the world saw the best Russian and Vietnamese surfing athletes performing long board and short board styles in Vung Tau, Vietnam. What was unique was that, for the first time, viewers could watch the event in 2D, 3D and even 3D without glasses.

via Like a 3D window to the world – Russian Surf Championships | 3D News from 3D Focus.