Monthly Archives: December 2011

I was finally able to get the new firmware update V21b for the LG Optimus 3D smartphone that brings new and improved stereo 3D features for the device as well as other non-3D related ones and also updates the OS to Android 2.3.5. So after updating the firmware to V21b (dated 13th December) I tried [...]
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Brian Cury, founder and chief executive of Earthcam.com, talks about the company’s planned 3D webcast of tomorrow night’s New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York’s Times Square. He speaks with Jon Erlichman on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West” here under.

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If you have concerns about losing half the pixels of your stereoscopic 3D image on 3DTVs using passive glasses, LG has the answer!

LG (Korea) announced that they will unveil at the CES (in January 2012) the LW6500, a quadruple resolution stereoscopic 3DTV set with a 84″ size and a 3,840 x 2,160 pixels resolution. Even if the passive technology means you are losing every second pixel, you are nevertheless left with two times the usual pixel count of the best 3DTV sets on the market.

With passive glasses, there is no flicker at all as with active glasses; and passive glasses are cheap. Will this incentive be enough to overcome the (huge) price of the LW6500 behemoth? Maybe for wealthy families with more than 15 children…

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If you are looking for an active DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter for use together with a laptop that only has a DisplayPort interface available, but you want to be able to connect a 3D-capable LCD monitor with a DVI interface, then Club 3D might have exactly what you need. The Club 3D CAC-1051 DisplayPort [...]
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There are many ways to put a 3D video clip shot on the Nintendo 3DS on YouTube. The easiest one is obviously to use the free StereoMovie Maker application. The last beta version released this December directly supports the 3DS video format.

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Toshiba has released a BIOS update for their Qosmio F750 (EU, Asia) and F755 (US) 3D-capable autostereoscopic (glasses free) laptops that adds support for gaming in stereo 3D mode, a feature that was not available initially at the release of the products. Up until recently you could officially only play 3D movies on these laptops, [...]
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The comedy horror musical movie “Eldorado 3D” will be released in Blu-ray 3D on January 30th, 2012. Pre-oders are open on Amazon UK for 13.99£. No sign of Eldorado on Amazon US for now… David Carradine, Darryl Hannah and Brigitte Nielsen are on board Continue reading →

The Vizio E3D420VX is a bargain-priced 42-inch 3D TV with lots of extra features, including Internet streaming. Reviewers are impressed with the 3D functionality and color accuracy is quite good. Continue reading →

The Photographic Society of Vienna (Austria) celebrates its 150th anniversary this year and finalizes its festivities with an exhibition of more than 300 photos made since 1945 of more than 150 Austrian photographers. 3D works are on display on 8 LG 3DTV sets and 12 Fuji Continue reading →