Documentary on North Korea’s love of 3D photographs
Source: Documentary on North Korea’s love of 3D photographs / Boing Boing
Microsoft thinks 3D and “3D Goggles” are the wave of the future
Microsoft may be about to make its case for how Windows Holographic devices will make professionals and consumers more productive and creative.
Source: Microsoft ready to put Windows at the center of 3D – CNET
If 3D TV failed because people did not want to wear 3D glasses (often called 3D Goggles by the media), how will VR with its VR helmets be a long term mass market item?
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Sony announces 4K 3D monitors for medical applications
4K TVs aren’t just for home cinema – that level of detail can also help guide surgeons and doctors. Sony has unveiled a new line of medical monitors that are the first to combine 3D and 4K images, and new recorders and management systems that allow the storage and sharing of images and video.
Source: Sony stitches 4K and 3D video together in new medical monitors
#ELSEWHERE introduces #3D viewing system based on iPhone and viewing lenses
It’s a $50 setup that says it dynamically converts any image or video screen into 3D, doing a 2D to 3D conversion. It works in conjunction with an iOS app. Looks like it uses the iPhone camera to collect images, the app to do a 2D to 3D conversion into side-by-side viewing, and then uses the “3D viewer” to enable parallel view on the Phone screen’s side by side image. I think.
Parallel viewing glasses is not new. But using an iPhone camera to record 2D and then converting in real time to 3D is a neat trick. Provided you want to watch it on your iPhone. Photo, below, form the Elsewhere web site:
This post is a bit more info on our previous post which did not have any details.
Source: ELSEWHERE
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Virtual Reality Contact Lenses
Contact lenses that enhance normal vision with megapixel 3D panoramic images are being designed by scientists using military funding.
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Innovega’s contact lenses could effectively generate displays with a screen size “equivalent to a 240-inch television, viewed at a distance of 10 feet.”
Moreover, by projecting slightly different pictures to each eye, the display can generate the illusion of 3D. “You get full 3D, full HD, fully panoramic images,” Willey said.
Although some might balk at using contact lenses, “100 million people already do, including 20 percent of the key target group of 18- to 34-year-olds, those involved in gaming and using smartphones,”
Source: Virtual Reality Contact Lenses Could Be Available by 2014
Eliminates the VR helmet and 3D glasses, apparently.
