Join Neil Schneider from MTBS talking about the stereoscopic 3D history in this about 10 minutes long video… he is explaining a lot of interesting facts about the pioneers from Metabyte, NVIDIA, iZ3D, and DDD and what is their part in the stereoscopic 3D technology development. The video was shot with Minoru 3D webcamera and is available in stereoscopic 3D format on YouTube, but you can also download it to watch is on your PC with 3D Vision for example. And don’t forget to watch the next part of the video next week… ;)
There is a very interesting interview that Neil Schneider from MTBS and S-3D Gaming Alliance (S3DGA) did with Frank Vitz, Senior Art Director and CG Supervisor at Electronic Arts. Before joining EA Frank Vitz has worked on the first Tron movie, on the special effects for the first two X-Men movies and also on Spider-Man ride in stereoscopic 3D at Universal Studios in Orlando. Frank shares a lot of information about some of his old and new projects and his perspective about the stereoscopic 3D. The whole interview is something you should not miss, so head out to MTBS and take a look…
Just a few days ago I’ve written about the small, but very useful tool that allows you to convert MPO pictures taken with Fujifilm’s Finepix Real 3D W1 digital camera into separate JPEG images – one for the left and one for the right eye. The drawback of the tool called MPO2Stereo, written by cybereality at MTBS forum was that it did not directly produce JPS files, but you still need to join the two frames another software. But now, thanks to KindDragon from the same forum, and his tool JPG2JPS the process can be automated and done very easily. You just need to Drag and Drop the MPO file over the mpo2jps.bat file and you’ll get everything done, the MPO2Stereo will extract the left and right frames and jpg2jps.exe will create a single JPS file, containing the two stereo pairs. The resulting JPS file will be smaller than the input coming from the MPO, because there is some compression done when joining the images for left and for right eye into a single side-by-side image.
