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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...

Imagine being able to “print” an entire house. Or a four-course dinner. Or a complete mechanical device such as a cuckoo clock, fully assembled and ready to run. Or a printer capable of printing … yet another printer? These are no longer sci-fi flights of fancy. Rather, they are all real (though very early-stage) research projects underway at MIT, and just a few ways the Institute is pushing forward the boundaries of a technology it helped pioneer nearly two decades ago. A flurry of media stories this year have touted three-dimensional printing — or “3DP” — as the vanguard of...

<p>As workers in the space industry look for ways to turn their talents into Earthbound jobs, one group has gone from mapping Mars to re-creating faces of the dearly departed.</p> <p>They've formed a company called LookLikes that is creating three-dimensional images of the deceased to be placed on grave markers. The images cost about $1,000, and the scanning devices the funeral homes will use to help make them are expected to be available for leasing starting in October.</p>

Report says consumer adoption of 3DTV will slow this year. The shroud of indifference in which retailers find themselves as they try to incite consumer interest in 3DTV isn’t expected to lift much this year, while consumer interest in connected TVs continues to thrive, according to a new report. Sales of 3DTVs are projected to actually decline in 2011 as issues surrounding a universal standard, eyewear, dearth of content and price resolve themselves, according SNL Kagan. Principal 3DTV drivers include live sports and ongoing (though waning) interest in theatrical 3D movies. 3DTV households should top 1.8 million by the end...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the third in the Transformers series, is in some ways the perfect summer movie. A movie where you can turn off your brain, ignore reality, and simply enjoy sugar sweet Hollywood mayhem. The movie starts with a basic concept: that the space race in the Cold War was focused on reaching the moon first, not for its scientific achievement, but to obtain alien technology that both the Soviets and Americans secretly knew had crashed on the dark side of the moon millenia ago. Americans, led by Neil Armstrong, get there first...but keep the information hidden.

Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr showed off the company’s revolutionary new 3D transistors in an announcement this week in San Francisco. The power, performance, and real estate gains are impressive. Moore’s Law seems to be holding. Video at Link.

Posted: Tue., Feb. 15, 2011, 6:59am PT Third Reich 3D movies unearthed Documaker Philippe Mora finds unknown pre-war pics By Nick Holdsworth BERLIN -- Films shot on 3D in pre-war Nazi German have been unearthed in Berlin's Federal Archives. Two 30 minute black and white propaganda films in 1936 were found by Australian director Philippe Mora, who is prepping a feature length documentary on how the Nazis used images to manipulate reality. Mora broke new ground with his first film "Swastika" when it was released in 1973 featuring previously unseen color footage from Hitler's "home" movies shot on a 16mm...

NEW YORK – From Hollywood studios to Japanese TV makers, powerful business interests are betting 3-D will be the future of entertainment, despite a major drawback: It makes millions of people uncomfortable or sick. Optometrists say as many as one in four viewers have problems watching 3-D movies and TV, either because 3-D causes tiresome eyestrain or because the viewer has problems perceiving depth in real life. In the worst cases, 3-D makes people queasy, leaves them dizzy or gives them headaches.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uef17zOCDb8&feature=player_embedded This may make 3D finally usable, or not.

Naval Aviation Training Systems program office (PMA-205) delivered two Super Hornet Integrated Visual Environment Maintenance Trainers (IVEMT) to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) at Amberley Air Force Base, Ipswich, Australia in October. The IVEMT is a 3-D visual trainer which allows military personnel to virtually navigate through multiple aircraft systems. It provides maintainers training on ground operation, maintenance, and testing. It also offers troubleshooting procedures for the F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft including avionics, environmental control, electrical, flight control, fuel, engines, landing gear, and hydraulic systems. The IVEMT was designed exclusively for RAAF and is the first Super Hornet maintenance...

, Sweden: Defence and security company Saab has received an order from FMV, the Swedish Defence Material Administration, for the delivery of 3-dimensional (3D) models to the Swedish Gripen simulators. The 3D-models will give the simulators a highly realistic visualisation model. The 3D-models will be generated by the system Rapid 3D Mapping based on aerial images, developed by Saab. “This is an important milestone that proves that 3D-models generated by our new product Rapid 3D Mapping can be used with excellent results for visualisation in simulators”, says Ulf Hellberg, Head of Business Development within Saab’s business area Dynamics

Virtual idol Miku Hatsune has gone from a character marketing voice synthesizing software to a full blown pop star -- pretty clever for a hologram Home › Sound Check › Tokyo › Play Japan's holographic rock star -- Miku Hatsune Virtual idol Miku Hatsune has gone from a character marketing voice synthesizing software to a full blown pop star -- pretty clever for a hologram By Robert Michael Poole 11 November, 2010 Select ratingPoorOkayGoodGreatAwesome PoorOkayGoodGreatAwesome. .EmailTwitterFacebookShare. Forget the tantrums, entourage and ridiculous riders. Here's one rock star that only needs electricity to keep her happy. Following on from Japan's cybernetic...

"Race is on to make the first 3D porn movie Filmmakers in Europe, Asia and the USA are competing to produce the world's first ever 3D porn film. Published: 12:25PM BST 15 Aug 2010 A group of Hong Kong filmmakers have started shooting what they claim will be the world's first 3D pornographic film, Photo: AFP Adult video actress Saori Hara and actor Hiro Hayana of Japan perform for the camera during filming on the set of '3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstacy' in Hong Kong Photo: AFP Hong Kong director Christopher Sun is currently filming his $3.2 million '3-D...

Panasonic Consumer Electronics North American president Shiro Kitajima (left)and Steven Roberts, DirecTV senior VP, celebrate the launch of DirecTV's three-channel 3D HDTV channel suite that went live Thursday. ______________________________________________ New York - DirecTV and sponsoring partner Panasonic formally threw the switch here Thursday on the satellite-TV provider's first 3D TV channel suite including "n3D", which is a 24/7 linear non-anaglyph 3D channel. As the exclusive sponsoring partner for the 3D channels, Powered by Panasonic is featured prominently in the new 3D service's branding. Panasonic is using the sponsorship to play up its "end-to-end" 3D efforts ranging from new Panasonic professional...

Alrighty then, so let’s move on to the third and thankfully last thought: On Thursday, May 14th, the 3-D Playboy hit the newsstands. And no doubt, hundreds have donned their 3-D glasses, gathered a “full head of steam”, and “spanked the light fantastic.” While the imagination boggles and cringes, it also rolls on the floor laughing...

This June, Playboy is introducing its first 3-D edition of Playboy Magazine complete with those 3D glasses. Three thoughts… (I’ll try to be discreet as possible)

Don’t count Francis Ford Coppola as a fan of 3D ... at least not yet. The Academy Award-winning director of “The Godfather,” “The Godfather II,” and “Apocalypse Now” says 3D does not enhance movies and cites the need to wear glasses as a major drawback. While admitting digital technology is well suited for 3D filmmaking and that the new technology has improved, Coppola believes 3D today is “no different from the 1950s” because of the need for glasses. “I feel that until you can watch 3D without glasses, it's the same thing we know," he says. "I personally do not...

James Cameron's love of science and high-tech cameras has previously shone through with his undersea documentaries -- not to mention Titanic or even Avatar. Now the film director is playing "public engagement co-investigator" on NASA's upcoming SUV-sized rover mission, which will carry full-color digital cameras and zoom lenses -- but it's a race to complete the lenses in time for the mission's 2011 launch. Cameron approached NASA administrator Charles Bolden about including the 3-D camera in January, according to the AP. NASA had originally cut the 3-D camera and zoom lens options back in 2007, for budgetary reasons. But Cameron's...

Do you want a successful career as a LOUSY FREEPER TROLL? Well, the best way to accomplish this is to get 1000+ posts in DUmmieland. Otherwise you will remain under suspicion. And the BEST way to reach that mark is to post to non-political threads so you don't "out" yourself. Post to non-political threads in which you find the topic to be of interest and with which you agree with most of the DUmmies. A very good example is this DUmmie THREAD, "'Why I Hate 3D and You Should Too' Roger Ebert." In fact, I found this subject so...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores this week, inaugurating what TV makers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room. Samsung Electronics Co. announced Tuesday that it is selling two 3-D sets. Combined with the required glasses and a 3-D Blu-ray player, the prices start at about $3,000 for a 46-inch screen. Panasonic Corp. has said it will sell its first 3-D set Wednesday. The push into the living room comes as moviegoers have shown considerable enthusiasm for the latest wave of 3-D fare in the theater. This...

The 3D TV hype machine begun at CES in January rolls on today as Samsung, the world's biggest TV maker, officially announced pricing and availability of its 2010 3D-capable HDTVs, Blu-ray players and home theater gear. The initial wave of televisions that can handle the new 3D TV Blu-ray and TV formats won't be cheap. The company's first 3D TV, the UNC7000 series, has been available for the last few days and is currently going for around $2350 at Amazon for the 46-inch model ($2600 MSRP). That's a $350 premium compared to Amazon's price for Samsung's closest 2009 non-3D equivalent,...

ames Cameron decade long production of Avatar finally came to the big screen on Friday. With the cutting edge technology and 3D special effects, Cameron tried to bring the alien world of Pandora from his mind's eye to the movie theater.

BERLIN--We're here at IFA at the Sony press conference, where Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer reckons the "3D train is on the track--and we're the ones to drive it home." 3D is Sony's big push, but we're more interested in the announcement of a movie-download service for PS3 and PSP, via the PlayStation Network. Sony has announced its first 3D-compatible Bravia LCD TV, to arrive in 2010. It promises a high frame rate and 1,920x1,080 pixels per eye to give what Sony describes as "high-definition, high-quality 3D images." 3D-enabled Blu-ray players are set to follow and even the PS3 will...

Fujifilm has developed a compact digital camera that can be used to shoot three-dimensional (3D) photos and movies that can be viewed without special glasses. The FinePix REAL 3D W1 uses a “groundbreaking” system comprising two lenses whose images are merged in a single 3D picture or movie. Users can view the images on the camera’s rear display screen or a larger separate monitor. Fujifilm said it would also offer a special 3D photo printing service. “Viewed with just the naked eye, 3D images come alive with breathtaking reality and natural beauty,” Fujifilm said in a statement. The gadget will...

Sony chief executive Sir Howard Stringer unveiled prototypes of video bifocals and bendable televisions as he kicked off a gadget-rich Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Stringer, with help from film celebrity Tom Hanks, unveiled the future products after Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) chief Gary Shapiro called on president-elect Barack Obama to support the industry. "Obama is the first digital president," Shapiro said while outlining the association's political agenda. "We don't seek a hand-out. We say embrace us. Let us innovate. Let us create. Our economy will flourish. Innovation is the best medicine to end economic stagnation." The CEA expects...

With sports fans still getting used to their high-definition television sets, the National Football League is already thinking ahead to the next potential upgrade: 3-D. Next week, a game between the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders will be broadcast live in 3-D to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston. It is a preliminary step on what is likely a long road to any regular 3-D broadcasts of football games. The idea is a "proof of concept," says Howard Katz, NFL senior vice president of broadcasting and media operations. "We want to demonstrate this and let people...

Philips unveiled a killer new 3D HDTV at the 3D Biz Ex event in Hollywood earlier this week, with a hefty price tag to boot. The 56″ Quad Full (3840×2160 resolution), autostereoscopic 3D HD TV does not require special glasses to be viewed and has a 160 degree viewing angle. Put simply, autostereoscopic displays work by projecting a different image into each eye, though there are a range of technologies which can be employed to achieve this effect. The Philips TV boasts 46 simultaneous views, seen depending on the angle the viewer is watching from. The 8.29 megapixel monster will...

New Scientific Evidence For The Shroud of Turin Photo negative of Shroud of Turin Scriptural Reference To The ShroudJohn 19:38-42 After this Joseph of Arimathe'a, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took away his body. Nicode'mus also, who had at first come to him by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds' weight. They took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the...

The virtual worlds in computer games provide a realistic backdrop to the action. But step too close and the effect is lost – you'll see that textures and patterns are usually displayed on flat surfaces that look dull and artificial. A simpler way to add depth to textured surfaces could change that. The new technique can reconstruct the depth of a surface simply by taking two photos of it – one with a flash and one without (see video, right). Merely analysing the resulting shading patterns can capture the surface's 3D texture. Until now making realistic textures required the use...

(What makes someone a "decorated combat veteran?" Thurman Hart puts the question to us framed within the drama of a New Jersey Congressional race. From the diaries - promoted by Brandon Friedman) I don't usually make a huge deal out of my six years of service in the US Navy. I went in when I was eighteen, spent four years as an electrician on the USS Saipan, and got out. I have a box on a shelf where I keep some spare bits of cloth and metal that the Navy gave me for various things, but it's really not a...

A Forgettable Journey to the Center of the Earth July 11, 2008 - by Kyle Smith Journey to the Center of the Earth is aggressively bland, a display of X-treme mildness, a cinematic saltine. Like many children’s movies, this remake of the Jules Verne adventure novel, starring Brendan Fraser as a scientist following the trail of his lost brother from an Icelandic cave into the bowels of the world, would be more accurately described as a grandparents’ movie. Little kids brought up on Shrek and The Incredibles have nothing in their memory banks to compare to this movie’s air of...

Samsung this March will launch two Plasma HDTVs that can display 3-D images. The company made the announcement this week at the Consumer Electronics Show. At a press conference yesterday, Samsung executives said the two sets would be 42-inch and 50-inch models. Charles Park, who heads Samsung's Plasma unit, said the company is still working on the pricing for the 3-D HDTVs. However, he promised that the sets would not carry a "premium" -- meaning they would not be more expensive than a non-3D set. The two Plasma sets will come with special 3-D goggles and software. To get the...

Today I was reading about Anderson Cooper's coverage of the Iowa Caucus and many people were talking about his magic 3D Pie Chart. Apparently CNN is trying out some new toys. I like new toys. I found some still images, but I'm looking for a movie showing off the tech. (Though I can imagine it in my head if I close my eyes. :) ) Better image here. If anyone has a link to a video showing off this technology, I'd love to see it. :) Peace.

PASADENA, Calif. — Sometimes a particular piece of plastic is just what you need. You have lost the battery cover to your cellphone, perhaps. Or your daughter needs to have the golden princess doll she saw on television. Now. In a few years, it will be possible to make these items yourself. You will be able to download three-dimensional plans online, then push Print. Hours later, a solid object will be ready to remove from your printer. .................................................. “In the future, everyone will have a printer like this at home,” said Hod Lipson, a professor at Cornell University, who has...

WASHINGTON, April 3, 2007 – Virtual reality made its way into the operating room last week when an Army doctor performed the military’s first three-dimensional minimally invasive surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here. Armed with a state-of-the-art helmet, Col. (Dr.) Ernest Lockrow, director of the Telerobotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, used the 3-D capabilities to perform a hysterectomy. Minimally invasive surgery, also known as laparoscopy, uses tiny incisions to operate and typically involves a telescopic lens that is connected to a video camera. The operation last week was the first time the military has used the...

VirtueMedia Inc., a leading producer of pro-life media, annnounces Windows, the latest addition to its impressive list of pro-life television commercials. Windows reports on the impact that advanced technology has on the issue of abortion.

Baby Insight Photogenic - Images from elective ultrasounds. The procedure is becoming more popular but has detractors. IT'S a rite of passage for many expectant parents: baby's first ultrasound. The fuzzy images of the fetus, produced during an examination in an obstetrician's office, are prized by couples, passed around proudly among friends and relatives. Now, trying to capitalize on this phenomenon, a number of companies are selling elective ultrasounds that have little to do with neonatal health. The services, often in small offices or shopping malls, amount to fetal photo studios and use newer 3-D ultrasound technology to produce...

Please excuse the hypervanity -- and Admin Mod, when I get it, feel free to delete the thread -- but I am looking for this super cool 3 dimensional animated gif (or JPG) of this East-indian 'god' that was posted a few days back. I'm sure someone saw it and either retained a copy or a link. It was awesome and I want to send it to a dear friend.

Via the EET comes word of a new technology called Photosynth, which can stitch together 2D snapshots of a location to build a 3D walkthrough. So for instance, you could do a Google Image or Flickr search for photos of the Eiffel Tower, dump all the resulting photos of the monument into Photosynth, and have the software recreate it and its surroundings in 3D. The software also lets you annotate an object in an image, and that annotation will follow the object as you view other photos in the same collection. Here's the abstract, which gives a summary of the...

Face recognition technology that could revolutionise security systems worldwide has been developed by computer scientists at Sheffield Hallam University. The new specialist software can produce an exact 3D image of a face within 40 milliseconds. Similar systems that have been trialled have proved unworkable because of the time it takes to construct a picture and an inaccurate result. The ground-breaking invention, by experts in the University’s Materials and Engineering Research Institute (MERI) was tested by Home Secretary Charles Clarke on a recent visit to Sheffield. It could be used for tighter security in airports, banks, and government buildings and ID...

This stuff is absolutely amazing..click the link..

IBM is set to release 3D television technology which is nearly half the cost of current systems. 3D video has been around for a while, but one of the things that have held it back has been the steep cost. A normal system will set you back at least $1,800 and use two projectors to simulate both left and right views needed to form 3D image. Big Blue boffins have worked out a way of creating a 3D video system that works with normal DLP (Digital Light Processing) televisions and needs only one projector. It does this by adding lots...

The world's first interactive 3D display has been developed by IO2 Technology. HelioDisplay creates 3D displays in the air using lasers, drawing input from computers, TVs and DVDs. It also allows interactive applications to be controlled by a finger, instead of a mouse. "Our first generation version, the Heliodisplay, projects TV, streaming video and computer images into free space, (mid-air)", the company's website claims. While it's early days for such technologies, the company has just completed its first production unit and claims it is ready to release a limited number of units for sale.

IN a nondescript optics lab in tucked into an anonymous office park in the San Fernando Valley, the photon hackers of Deep Light are showing me the future of media. The object of their affection is a small screen on which an animated gladiator is clashing scimitars with a horned monster in a Coliseum-like setting. But this isn't a flat cartoon image: it's full 3-D space, the combatants circling each other inches from my eyes so convincingly that my hand twinges to grab them - and I'm not wearing those clunky red-and-blue cardboard glasses, either. I'm seeing a 3-D image...

Well, here we go again with the strange and stupid software patents. Granted I haven't seen this in enough places yet to confirm it but it's so strange that I have to think it's probably true since it concerns a software patent. Article is here. The patent is here. In simple terms it seems to be saying that this patent is for the technique of displaying 3D information on a 2D monitor. Which means in case of this lawsuit nearly every game created in the last five to ten years. But it goes beyond that. FAR BEYOND. Any company that...

"Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit." Available for MAC...

If you’re marveling over the incredibly detailed pictures of Mars sent back to Earth by Spirit, the Mars Exploration Rover, prepare to be blown away by what you can do with these images right on your own Mac. All you need is Maestro, a scientific visualization tool created by the scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to work with the rovers Spirit and Opportunity. During the 2004 Mars Exploration Rover Mission, you can download a free copy of Maestro for Mac OS X from NASA JPL that allows you to see Mars in ways you’ve never imagined. “It’s actually...

[Times photos: Ken Helle] This 3-D image, made Oct. 16, shows Jonathan Whitcomb, a fetus at 27 weeks. Susan Guidi of Advanced Ultrasound Services in Tampa has an $80,000 machine in her office to make the images. She charges $225 per session. Guidi, left, performs an ultrasound Oct. 16 on Melanie Whitcomb as her husband Robert watches. Parents leave with images on tape and a CD. TAMPA - Tiny Jonathan Whitcomb has very little hair, full lips and his daddy's nose. Some pretty amazing observations, considering Jonathan is a 27-week-old fetus, kicking and turning inside his mother's womb. Jonathan's...

One Christmas, when I was about eight years old, my father gave me a chemistry set. I remember the metal box filled with little bottles of chemicals, test tubes, stirring rods and a clamp for holding test tubes over a small alcohol burner. That Christmas morning my father and I set up the chemistry set on the kitchen counter and tried some of the experiments described in a book that came with the set. I remember one of the experiments in particular because I think it had a profound impact on my life. It was probably the beginning of...

Found this on Trailer Park. Walter Cronkite narrates a World Wildlife Fund propaganda flick, in Imax 3-D format, pushing environmental idiocy blaming man for the ills of the world. SOS Planet Quicktime 5 player required to view... 3-D not included...