Lab investigates 3D Stereoscopy Comfort Issues
iGO3D is a Canadian initiative founded one year ago in 2011. Its efforts will include investigative issues related to comfort, effectiveness, audio, and how the stereoscopic viewing experience impacts gameplay from both the player's and developer's perspectives.
Other aspects of iGO3D's mandate include development of a game test facility, further stereoscopic S-3D vision and auditory research with a view to establishing game design parameters and disseminating this information to Ontario's gaming industry through focused webinars and conferences.
Academic partners include UOIT, York University, the University of Waterloo, University of Western Ontario, and the Ontario College of Arts and Design University (OCADU). Industry partners include The S-3D Gaming Alliance (S3DGA), Electronic Arts Canada, Bedlam Games, Big Blue Bubble, Digital Extremes, Interactive Ontario and Junction VFX.
2020 3D Media Project Results
The 2020 3D Media project, funded by the European Commission, showcases its main results at Fraunhofer HHI’s Time Lab in Berlin on February 13-14, 2012, in conjunction with the Berlinale 2012 Film Festival. During the open showcase event, the project’s experimental production short film, directed by Eric Joris, will be premiered. The film combines cutting-edge stereoscopic and immersive technologies developed in the project.
Oscam kills 3D headaches
OSCAM stands for "optimized stereoscopic camera control for interactive 3D". A paper from Thomas Oskam working for ETH Zurich and Disney Research Zurich (Switzerland) has been published in ACM Transactions on Graphics. Available for 15$ (or 10$ for ACM members), the paper describes a realtime method that can be implemented in a graphics card and reduces the stereoscopic disparities to an acceptable level in real time for any 3D content on any 3D screen, be it small or IMAX-size.
Princess Leia on your Living Room Table?
Japanese technology company Burton was showcasing its Aerial True 3D display at CES 2012. The display makes use of lasers to create a volumetric display in the air, just as the Princess Leia avatar in Star Wars. The laser ionizes molecules of oxygen and nitrogen of the air enough for them to emit light. Full HD and non-green colors seems to remain a few years in the future however.
The display is really done in volume and the 3D effect don't require any special glasses. Watch the CNET showcase video here under. This Sci-Fi display will be visible agoin at Imagina 2012 from 7 to 9 February 2012 in Monaco.
A Phd Thesis about Stereoscopy Needs your Input
Janne Taponen from the TUT university in finland is writing a thesis about 3D stereoscopic video capture artifacts. The emphasis on this thesis is to focus on how the content producers experience the various stereoscopic artifacts and to bring this knowledge to the academic world to hopefully direct the research done for stereoscopic artifacts and their mitigation to right direction.Janne initiated a survey for all persons involved in 3D. Just follow this link.
