Taiwanese media website Economic Daily News [Google Translate] (via GforGames) is reporting that Apple may be gearing up to introduce a glasses-free 3D display on next year’s iPhone. The site also reports that Apple is aiming to create a 3D “hardware and software ecosystem.”
via Next iPhone Rumored to Carry Glasses-free 3D Display – Mac Rumors.
I saw a prototype of this technology in 2013 – its awesome! Add glasses free 3D viewing to your Apple iPad:
Leveraging many years of 3D industry experience, Ooyavah has created a glasses-free 3D viewing solution for the world’s most popular tablet – the Apple iPad.
from Ooyavah. The product itself is named Pryzma.
Click here to learn how it works.
It combines a state of the art lenticular lens overlay, on the Apple iPad screen, with use of the iPad’s camera to track your eyes in real time, automatically adjusting the screen’s content to deliver true and accurate glasses free 3D viewing your left and right eyes.
Introducing HERO4 Black, the most advanced GoPro ever. Featuring improved image quality and a 2x more powerful processor with 2x faster video frame rates,1 HERO4 Black takes Emmy® Award-winning GoPro performance to a whole new level. Incredible high-resolution 4K30 and 2.7K50 video and high frame rate 1080p120 video enable stunning, immersive footage of you and your world. New Protune™ settings for both photos and video unlock manual control of Color, ISO Limit, Exposure and more. Waterproof to 131’ (40m) with 12MP photos at a blistering 30 frames per second and improved audio
via GoPro – HERO4 Black camera – 2x the performance. 4K30, 2.7K50 and 1080p120 video.
With all the 4k and high frame rate gear coming out, we can see why Youtube is pushing into 4k and HFR solutions.
I am not seeing a GoPro Hero4 3D package like they had with the earlier camera. A great solution for the Hero3+ is available form a 3rd party here, though.
The implementation of the universal 3D video player on Youtube was the work of Google’s Peter Bradshaw, who thought of the idea of combining left and right images in to multiple 3D formats, right in the player. He built it in about 3 weeks time. That was then: How YouTube 3D Came to Be.
For reasons unknown, as of September 30 2014, the user interface for the 3D video options has been removed by Youtube. No explanation has been given. 3D options still remain in the Advanced Settings pane of the video upload page. Perhaps the 3D player options will come back?
From Stereoscopy News and 3dstreaming.org:
Abstract | Digital stereoscopic 3D cameras have entered the consumer market in recent years, but the acceptance of this novel technology has not yet been studied. The aim of this study was to identify the benefits and problems that novice users encounter in 3D photography by equipping five users with 3D cameras for a 4-week trial. We gathered data using a weekly questionnaire, an exit interview, and a stereoscopic disparity analysis of the 699 photographs taken during the trial. The results indicate that the participants took photographs at too-close distances, which caused excessive disparities. They learned to avoid the problem to some extent; the number of failed photographs due to excessive stereoscopic disparity decreased 70 % in 4 weeks. The participants also developed a preference for subjects that included clear depth differences and started to avoid photographing people because they looked unnatural in3Dphotographs.They also regarded flash-induced shadows and edge violations problematic because of the unnatural effects in the photographs. We propose in-camera assistance tools for 3D cameras to make 3D photography easier.
via STEREOSCOPY :: Nokia Research Center Publication – Why 3D Cameras.
Click through for a link to the full study.