To project the image, the process is reversed. Half the laser light is reflected off the interference pattern, and then recombined with the a beam that has not been modified. The combined beam is then projected towards the viewer using a lens system. Viewers perceive the 3D object rather than the interference pattern. So, computing [...]

The 21st century age of Three Dimension is about to dawn—and you’ll love it. A 3D television set   and a 3-D Blu-ray disc player are coming our way—along with more inexpensive 3D cameras. Panasonic has announced it will have a new HD television set on the market in 2010. Yoshi Yamada, Panasonic’s North American CEO, [...]

Melbourne: Aussie leg spinner Shane Warne was amazed to meet his virtual self when he visited at the National Sports Museum, which now houses a three-dimensional hologram that can make people feel that they are actually in the room with the former Test cricketer as he discusses his career. The hologram called Shane Warne – [...]

The PS3 Slim wasn’t the only point of interest from Sony’s GamesCom 2009 press conference — attendees also got a look at some of the capabilities of the tentatively named (we hope) PlayStation Motion Controller which was revealed at E3 earlier this year. The device’s developers created a neat little reel showing off a few of the [...]

Imagine a world where outdoor posters can recognise your face and address you personally. Where you can update your Twitter feed as you watch TV and the morning commute is a sea of people reading Metro on their Amazon Kindle. Sound far-fetched? These are all trends the futurologists and experts consulted by Media Week on [...]

It is a fair bet that almost anywhere and everywhere you look at this year’s IBC there will be examples of 3D in action. Indeed, the green shoots of 3D on TV are everywhere around us. In Europe satellite operator Eutelsat has been running a free-to-view experimental 3D channel for the past 18 months. It [...]

Channel 4 (UK) will air 3D shows and films in the autumn which viewers will be able to watch on standard TVs, while Sainsbury’s will distribute 3D glasses free to customers. Sky has also planted a flag in the territory with plans to launch its first 3D channel in 2010, while Virgin1 aired a 3D [...]

Panasonic said it contributed AV tech to the making of the film and is continuing to hype the Dec. 18 release with supporting consumer technology. Hence, an alliance with Twentieth Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment and Cameron himself. The agreement calls for Panasonic to tie the film in with a global ad campaign for its 3DTVs [...]

The tech world, it seems, has secretly decided to make today ‘national 3D day’. First Sky announced its first 3D channel, then Fujifilm’s exciting new ‘Real 3D’ camera dropped onto our doormat.It did so with a rather large thud – the Finepix Real 3D W1, to use its full name, is a beast of a compact [...]

One of the biggest trends for movies these days is 3-D, consumers are paying higher prices for 3-D movies in the theaters even in the recession.  As more and more movies are released it is only time before these movies make it to the home.  In order to work in the home a 3-D TV [...]

Over 1.2 million “3D Ready” TV’s were sold in the US alone in 2008, coming from Mitsubishi, Samsung, and others according to CEDIA (Consumer Electronics Dealers association)… 3D ready TV’s of today face the same struggle that “color TV’s” did back in the early 60′s when there were color sets available, but none of the [...]

With the addition of a new 3D adaptor to an innovative portfolio of digital cinema products and services, Sony can now offer the best of all worlds to exhibition: stunning 4K imagery from 4K movies, and incredible 3D with no triple-flash artifacts. You’ve just got to see it for yourself. Read More at; Sony: Sony [...]

The movie was authored in 3D from start to finish, and audience members will have the experience of feeling like hamburgers are flying right at them. “If there ever was a movie that was going to be in 3D, a movie about food raining from the sky seemed like a perfect fit,” remarks Miller, “and [...]

Those who remember the cheesy horror flicks of the ’50s might not believe it, but 3-D movies are experiencing a renaissance and may usher in an era where viewing images in three dimensions is the rule, not the exception. In the past five years, about 20 3-D films have hit theaters, most recently Disney Pixar’s [...]

Director James Cameron and Panasonic are joining forces to promote new flat-panel 3D TVs and Blu-ray disc players — while also pushing ticket sales for Cameron’s 3D film “Avatar.” The deal, announced by both parties on Friday, comes on the same day that 15 minutes of “Avatar” are being shown for free on IMAX screens across [...]

The footage, to be aired by Channel 4 will, look like a regular television picture until viewers don special glasses which will make the images appear to emerge from the screen. Director Bob Angell and cameraman Arthur Wooster shot the colour newsreel as part of a package called Royal Review. To achieve the 3D effect, [...]

PassmoreLab Confirms World Premiere of 3D Film will take place at Johnny Ramone’s Annual Pilgrimage in Los Angeles San Diego, CA (PRWEB) August 21, 2009 — The original 1968 version of the mother of all zombie films, George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead”, has risen from the dead — literally — as the film’s [...]

All you can say is..  Wow… This will be the film to bring 3D to the forefront of entertainment.. See it at; Apple Trailers:  Avatar

Until James Cameron’s keenly anticipated science fiction epic Avatar appears in cinemas this December, it’s impossible to say whether the remarkable 3D process developed to create it is an essential adjunct to plot or a diverting novelty. Read More at; Times Online: Avatar: The third dimension of hype?

There’s support for dual-stream 1080p 3D HDMI 1.4 defines several 3D formats for HDMI-enabled devices, including ‘frame alternative’, ‘line alternative’ and ‘field alternative’ methods, ‘Side by side’ methods (full and half) and ’2D plus depth’ methods. The new specification is also capable of handling dual-stream 3D resolutions up to 1080p. Having already made an impact [...]

The movie world has thought of 3D enough as its savior that the fever has spread to the TV industry. While there have been 3D HDTVs already on sale in the U.S., most recently from Mitsubishi, the content infrastructure needs to be in place for the technology to take off in living rooms. Read More at; [...]

Big Brother contestants were bought to tears last night (17 August) after messages from home were beamed into the house using event industry specialist Activ-8′s holographic technology. Contestant Lisa Wallace received news, via the technology, that her brother is expecting a baby, due on her birthday. Elsewhere, housemate David Ramsden cried and covered his face, [...]

Aping human vision, two Sky cameras on the same rig film side-by-side, capturing slightly different left and right images in 1080i resolution to create two 540 pixel images. Together they create a 1920×1080 image that – in quality terms – is a quarter as good as the Full HD 1080p pictures found on a Blu-ray disc. Each [...]

Film, television and media production professionals are slated to gather Monday for a mixer with a futuristic theme. Focusing on sci-fi and fantasy, the event will feature speakers discussing a new Star Trek series, how 3D is changing the world of media and how fantasy novels and art are crossing over into film and new [...]

To view television in 3D, users will also be required to wear polarising 3D glasses similar to the type used in popular 3D cinemas. “3D is a genuinely ‘seeing is believing’ experience, making TV come to life as never before,” says Brian Sullivan, Managing Director of Sky’s Customer Group. “Just like the launch of digital, [...]

NEW ORLEANS — Your HDTV might be getting 3D broadcasts in just a few years, says the top engineer at Sony Electronics Inc. It could happen in as little as two or three years, driven in large part by popularity of stereoscopic movies, said Peter Lude, senior vice president for systems engineering. Japan has a [...]

I had the opportunity to attend the San Diego Comic-Con this past week (July 23-26), and the main focus (besides the “Twilight” movie series) was 3D. In a packed 6700 seat room known as “HALL H”, those attendees, professionals, and press that were able to get in (I barely got in myself) were treated to [...]

What kid can resist going nose-to-skull with a three-dimensional Seismosaurus, a 110-foot creature that weighed up to 100 tons and roamed what is now central New Mexico during the Jurassic period? Or watch on a big screen, with wicked glee, during “Dinosaurs Alive!” as a dino poops in 3D, with a too-real soundtrack delivered by 26 [...]

Venice Film Festival is updating its awards line-up by offering a prize for the Best 3D Movie. Organisers said in a statement on Saturday that nine films will compete for the new award at the festival’s 66th edition, held from September 2 for 10 days. The movies include blockbusters Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, [...]

XPAND, a worldwide authority in 3D cinemas and technology platforms, displayed why the company’s X101 Series active glasses are the viewer’s choice in achieving the absolute 3D experience during their recent collaboration with ESPN and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, at the premiere of X Games The 3D Movie, the first sports-themed 3D film, recently [...]

Novato (CA) – Sonic Solutions is planning to offer consumers a new way to watch 3D movies at home by the end of the year. Sonic’s plan for the digital delivery of 3D entertainment includes professional tools for preparing content for electronic distribution and sell-through, services for delivery of device-optimized 3D content, and software for [...]

At the High Performance Graphics conference before the main show, keynote speeches from Larry Gritz of Sony Pictures Imageworks and Tim Sweeney of Epic Games showed that traditional 3D-rendering methods are being augmented and even supplanted by new techniques for motion-picture production as well as real-time computer games. Gritz reckoned that 3D became a fully integrated element of [...]

We have been working with  the Graphics Lab and Fakespace Labs to put a Four Barrel Holley on the Spinning Display.  It was packed in a rental truck last night and is being driven to Siggraph with Andrew Jones and Magnus Lang behind the wheel. The installation presents a 3D teleconferencing system that enables true eye contact [...]

The new DepthQ® HD 3D projector is the world’s first portable WXGA stereoscopic 3D projector, offering rock-solid 120Hz stereo 3D at 1280×720 resolution. This impressive capability of 120 unique frames per second means the DepthQ® projector’s total achievable throughput of visual data is roughly equivalent to the highest 2D broadcast standard to date: 1080 60P. [...]

One of the hot topics in the electronics industry at present is 3D. With 3D movie production intensifying and 3D titles having an encouraging effect on box office revenues the entertainment and consumer electronics industry are keen to drive 3D into the home. Projectors are in a strong position to take advantage of this roll out [...]

Release Date: August 21st 2009  (One week only) See the Trailer at; Apple Trailers: ESPN X Games 3D

I love me Wacoms as much as I love me bacons, but this Sketch3D–which you can use to draw in three dimensions using three dials and two-color eyeglasses–has got my heart. Read More at; Gizmondo: I Want to Trip With this Wondrous 3D Etch-a-Sketch

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have this week demonstrated at SIGGRAPH09 a holographic system capable of both interaction and touch feedback. The video above shows a system utilizing the Nintendo Wii Remote, an airborne ultrasound display, and holographic unit, to produce Touchable Holography. The demonstration includes a holographic ball which can be moved by pushing it [...]