You are here:
Home Page »
Broadcast Engineering on 3-D
Posts Tagged ‘technology’
by Michael Grotticelli June 28th, 2011
 SMPTE has launched a new YouTube channel for 3-D enthusiasts. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has launched an official YouTube channel with a series of 60-second clips on the scientific and research findings presented at its recent International Conference on Stereoscopic 3-D for Media and Entertainment.
The conference, held on June 21 and 22 in New York City, focused on the critical technologies and strategies needed for widespread and sustained 3-D adoption. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3D, issues, production, SMPTE, technology, YouTube
Related Topics: Products |
by Michael Grotticelli June 6th, 2011
 Panasonic’s AG-3DP1 3-D camcorder was used for the first time in a live broadcast. Eurosport’s live 3-D broadcast was distributed by many of the largest operators across Europe. Sports fans with 3-D-capable TV sets can visit the Eurosport website to know if the 3-D broadcast is available in their country and learn how to access the channel to enjoy the matches in the exceptional immersive experience that 3-D offers. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3-D, broadband, cameras, French Open, Internet, networks, Orange, Panasonic, technology, Web
Related Topics: Infrastructure, Post Production |
by Michael Grotticelli February 4th, 2011
 Rieko Fukushima, a researcher at Toshiba, helped set up a new research and development team in 2002 to explore the possibilities of 3-D displays at a time when Toshiba was skeptical. Rieko Fukushima, a researcher at Toshiba, has developed a promising new way to eliminate the need for special glasses for 3-D viewing. At the same time, she has made news by cracking Japan’s glass ceiling for women.
“I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t tough as a woman,” Fukushima, 39, told The New York Times. It was she who led Toshiba’s effort to develop the world’s first “naked-eye” 3-D TV; a project she began nine years ago when she had just returned from maternity leave.
It’s not known yet whether Toshiba can create a market for its new glasses-free 3-D TV sets, which it introduced in Japan in October and demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas; however, Fukushima’s success is already an inspiration to many in Japan. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3DTV, Cell, engineer, glasses-free, Rieko Fukushima, sets, technology, Toshiba
Related Topics: Application, Broadcast, Infrastructure, News, Products |
by Michael Grotticelli December 20th, 2010
 Apple’s patented auto-stereoscopic 3-D display technology shows promise because it allows a group of viewers to have the same visual experience from a variety of angles. Apple has been granted a U.S. patent for a new 3-D projection technology that enables multiple viewers to watch 3-D without the glasses.
Although quite complex, its design concept is described simply as providing “highly effective, practical, efficient, uncomplicated and inexpensive auto-stereoscopic 3-D displays that allow the observer complete and unencumbered freedom of movement.”
The term “auto-stereoscopic” means without 3-D glasses, which has become the Holy Grail of 3-D imaging. Apple’s patent states, “Most voyages into virtual reality are currently solitary and encumbered ones: Users often wear helmets, special glasses or other devices that present the 3-D world only to each of them individually.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Apple, autosteroscopic, patent, projection, technology, Three-Dimensional Display System
Related Topics: Application, Broadcast, News, Products |
by Michael Grotticelli November 22nd, 2010
 3Dfusion’s new 42in 3-D display features a lenticular lens design that creates nine distinct autostereoscopic views. After a number of public events involving presentations of its 3-D TV display technology in the past two months, a New York-based startup called 3DFusion is beginning to receive recognition as a promising new way to watch 3-D in the home or at a retail location without special glasses.
Leveraging the company’s 3DFMax image optimization technology, 3Dfusion now offers a new 42in 3-D display with a lenticular lens design that it said creates nine distinct autostereoscopic views. This allows multiple viewers to watch from a large comfort zone. The display and internal 3DFusion technology is designed for a wide range of applications, from home viewing to digital signage and immersive information provisioning. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3DFMax, 3DFusion, auto-stereoscopic, display, glasses, image optimization, monitors, technology
Related Topics: Application, Broadcast, Products |
by Michael Grotticelli October 25th, 2010
 Small, white globes attached to the athlete appear on a video screen and are connected by a computer program, creating a biomechanical 3-D twin of the pitcher on screen. Photo courtesy Greg Short, www.newjerseypitching.com. Sports teams are looking beyond entertainment and embracing 3-D video technology to help players train and play better as well as recover from injuries faster.
Teams are working with 3-D technology to capture human gestures with sensors for biomechanical and orthopedic research. The work is being used to discover the most powerful and least damaging ways that a human body can swing a bat, hit a ball or run fast.
The use of 3-D imaging creates a picture on a computer screen that can be viewed from any direction and in any dimension. Limb angles, accelerations and stress on joints can then be studied in comparison to ball speeds and the g-forces behind them. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3-D imaging, injury, motion capture, Motion Capture lab, sports, technology
Related Topics: Acquisition, Application, News, Products, Professional video |
by Michael Grotticelli October 20th, 2010
 The Toshiba 3-D TV sets will initially come in 20in and 12in models and include built-in circuitry to convert standard 2-D images into 3-D. Toshiba said it would be the first on the market with a TV set that displays 3-D images without requiring viewers to use special glasses; however, the 3-D TV models, due to their small screen sizes and Americans’ preference for sets of 50in and larger, will become available to Japanese consumers first.
Today, 3-D glasses are required to watch 3-D programming on TVs sold throughout the world by Samsung, Panasonic and Sony, as well as those currently offered by Toshiba; however, the Toshiba announcement means a technical breakthrough has occurred that might soon end that. The need for 3-D glasses has proven to be a detriment to 3-D set sales in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3-D, Active Shutter, glasses-free, LCD, sales, technology, Toshiba, TV sets
Related Topics: Application, Broadcast, News, Products |
by Michael Grotticelli October 12th, 2010
 Parents and others with lots of friends (or patrons) can rest a bit easier knowing that they’ll be able to enjoy 3-D TV in their living room (or bar) without having to spend exorbitant amounts on glasses for everyone in the room. That’s because, according to the president of RealD (the company whose disposable glasses are now used in most 3-D theater presentations), passive 3-D HDTV sets will arrive the spring of 2011, ending the need for active-shutter (expensive) glasses. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3DTV, active, glasses, Josh Greer, passive, RealD, shutter, technology, ZScreen
Related Topics: Application, Broadcast, Film, News, Products |
by Michael Grotticelli September 13th, 2010
 Inside Bexel's reconfigured BBSOne mobile production environment, five temporary control rooms were set up during the U.S. Open. Photo by David Leitner. Historically known as a broadcast equipment rental house that has supported all types of SD and HD digital productions, Bexel is now jumping into the 3-D production arena with a series of services and equipment packages that puts it and 3-D production within reach of a wider variety of professionals, from broadcast networks to single-camera operators.
“We see an opportunity to service the middle of the production market and also to be a company that the big boys can turn to when they need something extra, but don’t want to hire another entire production truck,” said Jerry Gepner, CEO of the Bexel Group. “For 3-D to truly reach its potential, production companies need to start employing it across a wide range of content, not just at premier events. Until now, scalability and operating costs were among the key challenges limiting 3-D production.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 3D, Bexel, cameras, mobile production, Panasonic, production, technology, Vitec Group's Services Division
Related Topics: Acquisition, Broadcast, Film, News, Products |
-
-
Michael Grotticelli is writer and editor of Broadcast Engineering’s “Beyond the Headlines” and “Sports Technology Update” e-newsletters. Each week, he provides a fresh perspective on the latest in 3-D technologies and innovations as well as report on real-world applications of 3-D in the broadcast, professional video and film industries.
-
-
-
-
-
-
|
