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The Desktop Hologram Monitor #AWE18
A video hologram was the eye-catching display and product of Looking Glass at the Augmented World Expo. Starting at $499, this HDMI connected device, allows artists, designers, teachers and marketers represent their works and offerings in three-dimensions. With an SDK that has interfaces to Unity, SketchUp and more, it is possible to take 2D and…
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3D Eyes with a 360 Degree View #CES2017
A 360 degree, 3D (8 cameras), 4k per camera resolution, with 8 stereo audio pairs are the vital specifications for the Vuze from Humaneyes Technologies. Controlled by a smart phone, this $799 device offers a relatively low-cost way of capturing immersive content, ideal for virtual reality headset displays. The accompanying editing software stitches together the separate…
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You Don’t Need to Be There to See It in 3D
Is 3D video poised for a rebirth of sorts through user-generated content? Looking through it with the eyes of a 15-year-old and hearing the “wow moment”, one has to think that 2016 might finally be the year of 3D video. Low-cost and simple 3D capture, along with low-cost virtual reality headsets could be the elements…
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A Cost Effective Way to Use 3DTV as a Teaching Tool
Look closely at the background of this video and you will see an autostereoscopic 3D display. The cool thing about this type of display is that one doesn’t need glasses to view the 3D images. As explained by Rob Koplin of Elixir XES 3D, the first application for the displays was in the medical industry…
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3D Outdoor Reality
A concern of mine regarding 3DTV has been what happens if I am at a friend’s house to watch a program and I don’t have 3D glasses. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, would I really want to borrow a pair of glasses from someone who would be a friend of mine (or vise-versa)? Who knows what…
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3D TV – Here Today
Roger and I happened to shoot the above video in the Samsung booth at CES 2010, but it could have just as easily been in any number of booths from a number of manufacturers. What is impressive is how quickly the component ecosystem is coming together. Panasonic was showing 3D (dual lenses, with sensors spaced…
