Comments on: Glasses-free 3-D TV looks nearer

By: Alastair Carnegie

Alastair Carnegie — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 02:18:34 +0000

A webcam knows when two eyes are looking at it. A linear parabolic lens, can send a pixelated picture, a bit like a lighthouse beam, but as a pixel matrix map. The rest is just a matter of a liquid crystal screen, switching off the left eye and right eye photon beam signal. Simples!

By: starnois

starnois — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:18:39 +0000

I’m fine with waiting 3 more years for holograms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d68yRIE9OvQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:00:30 +0000

A hyper 3d is more true to tech and to Hollywood. Think of the freeze frame, perspective change in movies like ,The Matrix and Inception. That you might pause the movie, and change your angle of view. It still would allow the director to frame shoots, in terms of action, yet allow the viewer to control the pace and perspective. Kind of like those cameras described in other articles, that you could focus into any plane, after the fact.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:00:22 +0000

So it will be more like a stage play.

By: James Lindelien

James Lindelien — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:54:55 +0000

I would not want to watch a movie experience which would depend on what seat I’m sitting in and along which sight line I am viewing the story, where my particular parallax might ruin the scene’s action from my viewpoint.

Directors of Photography painstakingly block and frame their camera angles and image content–it is a critical part of the art form and essential to conveying the full expression of the art form as intended by the storytellers.

This will be an incredibly hard sell to Hollywood.

That’s not to say this technology is not exciting and valuable in its own right for other applications, such as for immersive game playing.

By: Rob B

Rob B — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:32:10 +0000

in addition to holography, there a swept volume displays and solid-state displays which are currently in the research stage.

By: Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:19:58 +0000

What some people fail to understand is that none of these techniques, with the exception of true holography, is going to create a true 3D image. In a natural scene, my eyes have to focus at different distances, depending on the distance of the object being viewed. At the same time, there are subtle differences in the angle of my eyes as I focus on objects of varying distances. In a 3D theatre or TV, my eyes are always focused at the same distance…at the screen…regardless of the content of the 3D image being displayed. This is why supposed 3D images never appear natural, and why I always get sick to my stomach when I watch 3D in the movie theatre. I won’t get excited until we have a true 3D experience available.