3D Vision Blog

The professional photographer Cesar Sommer has just made available a new stereo 3D video giving us a nice slideshow with more stereo 3D photographs that he took during the last few months. The new 3D video is in Full HD quality and Side by Side format, so you should be able to watch it with the 3D Vision Video Player or the Stereoscopic Player without issues. If you still haven’t seen his first 3D portfolio, then you can get the video here featured on the blog or from the newly opened download section that is now also available on his official website. Some more things that you can check out about him for example is the short interview that I did with Cesar earlier this year if you’ve missed it to learn more Cesar and his 3D photography. And then there is also the report on his Stereoscopic 3D Photography Vernissage Event, where he presented some of his 3D work on different 3D solutions in front of live audience.

- Download the new Stereo 3D portfolio – mirror 1 – mirror 2 – mirror 3 – mirror 4 – mirror 5

The MPO Toolbox is a suite of four small applications solving various issues for owners of the stereoscopic 3D consumer digital camera Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1. The author of the program is Jérôme Leens, Researcher at Université de Liège (ULg) who is distributing it for free. The MPO Toolbox is currently in its first version and is intended to be used under any version of the Microsoft Windows operating system (32 or 64 bit). The software package contains a few very simple to use tools that will help you manage the MPO (Multi-Picture Object) stereo 3D pictures you get when shooting with the Fujifilm 3D camera…

The MPO Toolbox contains four programs that are quite easy to use, you just need to drag and drop a MPO file over the certain tool to get it perform its action. The tool MPO2JPEGS converts one or more MPO files into pairs of left and right JPEG files and MPO2JPS creates single JPS file with the left and right frames in a Side by Side format. The MPO2ANAGLYPH creates anaglyph red-cyan images and the MPO2DUBOIS is an alternative that creates different anaglyph images from MPO with the colors of the original picture being modified in order to reduce the brightness difference between left and right images for the red objects that are difficult to perceive in 3D with the standard anaglyph method.

- To download the free MPO Toolbox by Stereoscopy News…

I’ve been looking for a good book, written more recently and starting by covering how our stereoscopic vision works and then how its way of functioning can be taken advantage of in order to create the appropriate stereoscopic 3D content. A book that starts from the basics on how and why we see with depth and what it means to create a suitable digital content in 3D, that can be comfortably viewed in stereo 3D. It has turned out to be a quite hard task, but finally I was able to find such a book and it is called 3D Movie Making: Stereoscopic Digital Cinema from Script to Screen written by Bernard Mendiburu. The book is mainly targeted at people interested in 3D movie productions, but at the same time it covers all the basics of stereoscopic depth perception quite well and I found a lot of interesting things that I was not aware of. Of course it will be best if you are interested in 3D photography and 3D movies as this is the main focus of the book and especially how they are being produced and the specifics that the 3D format introduces. Even if you are interested only in stereo 3D gaming, you’ll still find a lot of information to help you understand how to achieve better results when tweaking the depth and convergence settings inside the game and why some games may give you problems even though they might seem to be rendered just fine in stereo 3D. The book also has an extensive list of references to useful websites and products – both free and commercial, that can help you in a lot of different 3D projects, especially if you consider to start shooting photos in 3D or even working on a stereo 3D amateur movie. For me the book was a great read and I’ve read it completely in one day, although it is over 200 pages, as it was indeed an interesting material to read and I could not stop myself until I’ve completely finished it. For me it was mostly stereo 3D gaming up until recently, but I’m starting to develop more and more interest in shooting photos and videos in 3D, so the whole book was full with useful information, and I can definitely recommend it to anyone really interested in stereo 3D…

- 3D Movie Making: Stereoscopic Digital Cinema from Script to Screen (Paper Book)