Posted on 12/26/2011 1:55:15 PM PST by Dallas59
Ultra- D is the company’s display technology that can carry out realtime conversion of 2-D to 3-D without necessitating the use of special glasses for viewing. What’s more, the technology enables the realtime conversion of 3-D content with glasses to 3-D content without glasses.
The company’s press announcement describes this approach as autostereoscopic 3-D imagery. The company’s Ultra-D is dependent upon custom hardware, middleware techniques and software algorithms to give viewers the instant conversions.
The company says Ultra-D works with Blu-ray, DVD, PC gaming, Internet, cable and satellite content.
The technology allows users the freedom to customize the 3-D effect as well. This will address, the company says, individual differences in spatial perception and reactions in eye comfort.
Complaints about 3-D eye strain and a general reluctance toward wearing special glasses for home viewing appear to be proactively addressed by the company, eager to accent the positive about 3-D’s future.
(Excerpt) Read more at physorg.com ...
Still not sold on 3-D.
I haven’t seen anything that convinces me that it adds to the experience.
Still waiting for Holography TV. 3D isn’t the same.
/johnny
Binocular vision is great. Semi binocular vision is actually hazardous to your health.
So, how do you lose it ~ well, you could lose an eye, or go blind in one eye, or when it comes to 3-D TV or movies, just LOSE the receptors for one of the three primary colors in one eye, or part of an eye, or maybe lose part of your optic nerve devoted to the signals from one zone in one of your eyes.
It can get so bad that you can't actually watch a 3-D movie comfortably. Cataracts can hinder enjoyment of 3-D.
Best have your eyes checked ~ http://colorvisiontesting.com/online%20test.htm
Color too. Black and white makes you use your “imagination”.
As long as there is a screen, it ain’t 3D, it’s simulated 3D
If your brain thinks it's 3D, that's good enough. The first time I ever was at a non-3D movie where a car went airborne over the top of a hill, my brain was absolutely sure I was in that car. I felt weightless.
Nothing against good new technology, but it is best to let someone else buy first. I know, as my family has bought into a fair amount of bad electronic tech.
The quadraphonic 8-track tapes I bought from Maxell didn’t have much of a shelf life. Now that I think of it, the regular stereo ones weren’t much better.
My dad’s RCA Disc-O-Vision wasn’t exactly DVD, despite price drops. He also thought that giant magfying lens for his 23” RCA color TV was was going to make a true home theatre, and that a “voice canceller” device would be able to make his own karoake recordings with his LP/reel collection before there was karaoke (at least state-side). Heck, even my 4-hour recorded VHS tapes ( LP) weren’t compatible with the majority of players that were 2/6 hour only (SP/SLP) a few years later.
Then there were the attempts to create simulated stereo ... tinny sound came with it for free. And Mr. Turner was going to show us that Frank Sinatra looked better in green eyes and that Cary Grant favored baby blue suits with colorization.
Of course, RCA’s CED and the Philips laser disc were forerunners to DVD. The fuzzy projection TVs and magnifying glasses gave way to large screen LCD and plasma. QUBE gave way to the web. FM Simulcast gave way to true broadcast hifi stereo and later 6.1. UHF converters and Jerrold Traps and Channel Master signal boosters and set couplers gave way to cable, dish and 1080p digital. (Oddly, rabbit ears and roof antennas still have a role in urban and suburban settings).
Eventually something like functional 3D may come along, but I don’t think this system will be it. Color TV could not take off until a system that allowed both color and black and white sets to view both color and black and white programs. Short of a forced conversion, like we had with digital, I don’t see that happening any time soon. In the meantime, we have high-priced full-motion GAF ViewMasters.
My kids did recently.
It was something called a “play”.
can’t wait to try this out. I have not been a big fan of 3D because of the glasses. If they can simulate it without the glasses I am in - once the early adopters help bring the price down.
LOL.
Not for me - I want 3D without a brain.
3D is awsome. It makes the move not so flat. It may not make much of a difference on a home tv, but at a theater it really adds to the experience.
No, thanks, I’m waiting for 4D.
It hasn’t made a difference to me, as of yet anyway.
I'll pass....Until they force me to buy it.
Probably the effects are more obvious in some shows than in others. I just saw a 3d movie in a theater today (haven’t seen one in years) and the 3d really made a difference.
Probably not something you want to watch porn on.
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