3D Vision Blog

What will make or break 3d at the consumer level will be end-user content. If there is nothing out there to make 3d worthwhile for the average consumer then it will slowly fade back into the shadows of something that is amazing but not fully understood. Also, the technology has to keep in step with other technologies. As in if 4k resolution video and monitors are the next big thing then 3d will have to scale with it or be left behind. I am hoping that OLED technology will be what saves 3d as far as standardizing a display type in that eventualy LCD's and LED backlit LCD's will be fazed out in favour of a display technology that could eliminate ghosting and allow for almost IPS type colour reproduction. http://www.dpreview.com/articles/712222 ... on-to-oled Basically what I am saying is that we need more 3d content, although 3d gaming is pretty much the best thing ever, people still need stuff to look at for it not to be just a gimmick as a lot of people see it. And there also needs to be a set of standards or protocals that would allow companies to maintain a level of availability to for all stereo devices. This might be lame and counter-production in theory but it seems to work as far as consumer technology is concerned, an example would be why HD t.v.s are all 1080p or why we have bluray players instead of HD dvd's and so on.

I think 3D and S3D is already made; it is here to stay. It is just a matter of how it can be served up. There is even R&D on holographic delivery. "Star Wars" is being made into 3D so the depth of content will be there in a few years. I see this as better than putting old movies on Bluray, for me there is nothing really added when that is done. But old movies made into 3D adds another dimension(pun intended).

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Head-tracking / parallax simulation is finally starting to take off,

Sony are working on it with the Playstation Eye (last paragraph):

http://www.3dfocus.co.uk/3d-news-2/3d-g ... aming/7779


Also, this free apps turns your phone into a 3D HMD with head tracking!

http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/diy/fov2go/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... n5ov-DKBMA

John Carmack (id) is backing development of a cheap HMD:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/30/30521 ... -with-john

and NHK is working on a lenticular / plenoptic 3D system that lets you "look around" objects:

http://www.3dfocus.co.uk/glasses-free-3 ... 3d-tv/8626

This how the future of 3D is shown by by two student filmmakers Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo. Perfect!

http://vimeo.com/46304267

By the way, I have found an article about the graduation project I mentioned in my previous post:

http://3dblog.org/everything-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/

Sega did release a Hologram arcade game called Time Traveler in the early 90s. Some operators made their money back on the 1st weekend. Then they never released another one for some odd reason

The future of 3d is this. Gamers don't like change whatsoever. My example is how many street fighter 2's came out? Not to mention 19 mortal kombats. The 2nd was the best one,I spent idk how many qtrs playing it. It will be a slow transition, unless the home consoles get a hold of the rift and make games strictly for it (not ports). Home consoles are declining every year and if they don't do something, tablets will be the next style of gaming. Then console gamers can finally understand why us computer gamers hate "console port" games.

the problem with 3D and particularly sterescopic vision is : it is not a product, it is a bunch of technologies serving a purpose. So even if everybody is pleased with the idea of seeing hi favorite content, there are so many ways to create and display , and none of these ways is really ok up to now.
Autostereoscopic is clearly the most evident, unfortunately it is the most difficult, because you need more than the 2 usual views and probably you need eye tracking also.
So for most people, 3D vision does not exist yet, because the usual tricks we use today (mostly the fact to wear glasses) are not acceptable.
But there is another problem. Content.
If people in early age of photography or cinema stopped to shoot movies because after all , "shooting in black and white is useless, better to wait when it will be in color", we would not have made the experiences and progresses required to developp this industry and we would get no pictures of our past.
So fortunately if we know that stereoscopic is far from perfect, it gives pretty neat results and leads the quest for finding a better way to shoot and a better way to display. And more important it records content today.