Family portraits, team pictures, and wedding photos. We’ve all taken them and put them in a frame or scrapbook. But now there’s a new way to make those pictures come to life.
Source: 3D Modeling Giving New Dimensions To Photography « CBS Minnesota
Category Archives: 3D Tech
3D Imaging Market Forecast to Grow
This growth is due to the use of 3D imaging technology in health care.
The 3D imaging market to grow from USD 4.9 Billion in 2015 to USD 16.6 Billion by 2020, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 27.5% during the forecast period.
NY Times says big screens and 3D are coming back
Interestingly, the new 3D blockbusters are targeting adult viewers:
Hollywood’s major studios are preparing to flood festival screens and commercial theaters with an unusual, year-end wave of grown-up movie spectacles — shown in the 3-D or large-screen format that is usually reserved for action blockbusters with younger audiences.
Source: Hollywood Uses Bigger Screens to Tell Sophisticated Stories – The New York Times
Youtube announces 360 degree 3D video support is coming
Starting in the fall of 2014, Youtube began dropping support for 3D videos. Now, Google briefly mentions it will be launching 360 degree VR 3D support soon (it’s #7 on this video).
Presumably, 3D VR will also support conventional 3D streaming again, as well.
Touchable 3D holograms
Source: Scientists have created 3D holograms that you can touch – Quartz
System uses lasers to create tiny bits of plasma in the air, which are touchable.