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Stereoscopy News Newsletter Issue #66

on Monday, 06 December 2010 23:38. Posted in Newsletters

Stereoscopy News Newsletter Issue #66

3D as Christmas gift? Look here !

Tuscon Citizen aka "The Voice of Tucson" (USA) is listing all the 3D gifts you can imagine realistically. The price of admission is dropping as the competition heats up. And it’s the holiday season, so you can take advantage of discounts.

Thor 3D will be released in May 2011 by Marvel Studios

Thor -directed by Kenneth Branagh- will be released on 6 May 2011 in the USA. Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins are part of the adventure. Portman promises a strong female character and wants to elevate the figure of Jane Foster from the comic version – which was pretty rubbish. Foster appeared in the second Thor story ever written.Thor will be converted to 3D before release.

Looking for additional 3D glasses for your 3D Vision kit?

3DStereoMedia (USA) reintroduces the Reality name with a whole new line of 3D products offering an inexpensive answer to the high cost of manufacturers' glasses. The Reality glasses are compatible (among other brands) with Nvidia 3DVision infrared googles for a price of 79.95$ (Lifestyle model) or 89.95$ (Lime and Raspberry models). Instead of USB connection to refill the batteries, Reality is using replaceable button batteries lasting 200 hours.

The Hobbit 3D will be filmed with 30 RED EPIC cameras

Peter Jackson, who’s made a few movies, is preparing to shoot another one called The Hobbit. That’s interesting news! What’s also interesting is how he will film it: Thirty uber-expensive RED EPIC cameras. It’s good to be the king.

A new Apple 3D patent

Apple has been issued with a US patent for a display system that would let numerous viewers see a high-quality 3D image projected on a screen without 3D glasses. The described device use a special screen and implies head tracking.

Swiss researchers create a panoptic 3D camera

EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) has a signal processing lab where Prof. Vandergheynst and fellow researchers are developing a panoptic 3D camera, kind of a Startrek device but working...

Strawberry Fields Forever... in 3D

Maybe you will soon eat strawberries picked by a 3D vision equipped robot at a rate of 9 seconds per berry...
The Institute of Agricultural Machinery at Japan’s National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, along with Seiko, has developed a robot that can select and harvest strawberries based on their color. Ripened berries are detected using the robot’s stereoscopic cameras, and analyzed to measure how red they appear. When the fruit is ready to come off the vine, the robot quickly locates it in 3D space and cuts it free.

New frame-rate technology boosts 3D performance

Zoran has developed a new frame-rate conversion platform that it claims will “noticeably improve” the video quality of both 2-D and 3-D images on a TV display.

First live 3D for Italian Rugby

Outside Broadcast NV (Belgium) teams up with Frame Italia for 3D live transmission of the international test matches of the Italian Rugby Team. Outside Broadcast NV will deploy its Unit 14 in 3D, equipped with one side-by-side camera and five mirror-rigs.