Monthly Archives: October 2011

i3DCamera is another application from Masuji Suto for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices equipped with a camera for quickly and easily taking stereo 3D photos with automatic alignment. The i3DCamera can be considered as a much simpler version of i3DSteroid by the same author, because in the latest version 1.2 it also got support [...]
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I have a little teaser for you, an Asus VG278H 3D monitor with 3D Vision 2 ready for testing. I’ll be testing the display in the next few days, so soon you can expect a detailed review of the stereo 3D performance of the first 3D monitor equipped with Nvidia’s 3D Lightboost technology very soon. [...]
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Canon introduced the LV-8235 Ultra-Short Throw 3D Projector, capable of projecting a 2-meters  (80″) picture from a distance of only 32 cm (1 ft). the LV-8235 can sit on a table or be mounted horizontally or vertically on a wall, ceiling or floor and is available now for 1799 $ in the USA.

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Paradise FX (Van Nuys, CA, USA), the comapny fouded by Max Penner,  just launched HELIOS, an autonomous and cost-effective wireless3D rig. Helios is suitable for all types of untethered camera work, including handheld, Steadicam and studio applications, with optimized metadata handling, crucial to VFX-oriented 3D production. HELIOS may reduce the technological and crewing footprints of 3D stereo cinematography, bringing them into line with 2D production practices and costs

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This is something that you must check out in 3D. A short stereoscopic 3D motion-controlled (moco) time-lapse video footage shot in San Francisco showing: server farms, indoor gardens, and brilliant artist/sculptor Jeremy Mayer building intricate and lifelike “robots” out of typewriter parts. Thanks to Peter H. Chang for sharing his impressive work, the music in [...]
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Paramount Pictures and James Cameron  just released eight scenes of the upcoming 3D-converted Titanic, designed to create a buzz and kill off any doubts that the conversion is less than top-notch quality. The money invested in converting Titanic to 3D amounts to 18 M$. The process took 60 weeks to complete.

Steve Weintraub from Collider.com said “The footage I saw this morning left me speechless.  I’m not joking around when I say it’s the best post conversion I’ve ever seen and it looks like they originally shot it in 3D back in 1997.”

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When considering the possibilities to make a portable and relatively affordable stereoscopic 3D camera rig for recording 3D video there are actually quite a few options. One of the most talked about and convenient is probably to use two GoPro HD Hero action cameras together with GoPro 3D Hero system, but this is not the [...]
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Carl Hernz, chief stereographer at Carmichael3D (Florida, USA) made a strage discovery while digging old film stock looking for movies to convert in 2D: he discovered that “Phantom of the Opera” was shot with two side-by-side cameras, but NOT to produce a 3D film. The setup was done to produce two original copies of all takes. As one set of copies was used for local distribution and the other for international distribution, the fact that both films were “sligthly different” never bothered anybody.

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The UK Border Agency reminded us recently that positions in Britain’s IT sector are still going to locals, although more software developers and graphic designers than available are needed to produce visual effects, 2D and 3D computer animation for film, TV and video games. The agency just published a list of occupations having a shortage of Brits to fill available positions.

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