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What Happened to Glasses-Free 3D TV?
Heh:
I can’t say I came away from CES feeling like the arrival of glasses-free 3D is imminent, but the prototypes are getting better. Maybe once the obsession with 4K television subsides, glasses-free 3D can be the next next big thing.
#CES is over
I hope to have more comments on 3D business and technologies soon. However, the last day I came down with a nasty cold, fever, headaches, aches and pains. A bit worse than the usual sore feet problem.
Consequently, no big updates for a bit.
#3D is dead, #3D is alive and future is bright #CES #CES2013
CES: Nobody Cares About 3D – says 3D is dead.
I don’t expect much from IGN and they do not disappoint:
Each major manufacturer had at least one 3D demo at their booth, but gone are the elaborate 3D installations that would greet you as you entered.
Hello? LG had the world’s largest 3D video wall on display – you CANNOT MISS IT as it encompassed the main entry to Central Hall.
3D was on display but 4k – and sometimes 8k – (all with 3D built in) is the main item promoted big and loud at CES. Yet, there is no 4k content available for all those consumers clamoring to buy a 4k TV.
Then we have this Fox News item – 3D is dead – (its a content free news story by the way).
But then we get to “The Future of 3D” which says 3D is here to stay with some actual reporting that backs that up.
I am anxious to write up an explanation of the 3D business, where we’ve been and where we may be headed. 3D is far from dead.
More from #CES2013 – #3D info and more – #CES
Joutec will be shipping soon this wireless add on 3D camera for smart phones. They will have apps for iPhone and Android.
The camera shoots 3D video and transfers to an app on the smart phone via WiFi, where the stream can be recorded to memory. This is a nifty way of adding 3D capability to a smart phone.
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Modular robotics based on behavioral robotics concepts. Each module has different capabilities – motor drive, sensors, communications – and so on. By assembling them together, one creates a device that will interact with its environment, without any programming. Perhaps hard to explain in a few words and especially if not familiar with behavior-based robotics that sort of sense – do, rather than sense – plan – do. Anyway, very neat idea.
This display is out of Russia. Its a humidifier output stream being lit up with computer generated imagery (Disney does something like this already). However, this one has a group of sensors that sense your hand position and you can interact with the content of the screen. Sort like a touch screen in the air. A future version will provide volumetric 3D capabilities.
Projections on to a four-sided sort of prism used to create volumetric 3D.
I liked this shirt…
Some inexpensive (not!) Nikon optical hardware:
The new Nikon Android-based camera
Nikon’s Wi-Fi dongle for a large set of their cameras, adds Wi-Fi transfer capabilities direct to your smart phone
