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Did you know that Google Earth is now in stereoscopic 3D?

Did you know that Google Earth is now in stereoscopic #3D? I should have known but only just discovered this. I vaguely remember the announcement in early summer (my Mom passed away at the age of 93 this summer and I was distracted from the Google Earth announcement).

I have an Nvidia display chipset and in the Nvidia Control Panel, I have the “Set up stereoscopic 3D” option set to “Enable stereoscopic 3D”. I do not have a 3D monitor but for me, I have it set to red/cyan anaglyph.

Anyway, Google Earth imagery – and street views – are now display in red/cyan anaglyph 3D!

Update: I am told the street level views, which are in 3D now too, are a fake 3D created from processing the laser range finder data with the still images. Depending on they do the drive-by shooting (couldn’t resist), another possibility would be to use a single frame offset between one image as the left eye and the next frame as the right eye (or vice versa).

3D, Cameras, Technical, Techniques

3D isn’t awful – its the bad 3D that’s awful!

I went searching through Youtube this evening for 3D content and found plenty of it – and plenty of it was basically awful!

Badly misaligned left and right eye views, edge violations, poor quality 2D-to-3D conversions. Not the sort of quality that will encourage others to enjoy 3D.

It is good to see people trying to do 3D – but it will take time for new enthusiasts to learn how to shoot and process 3D correctly. As 3D hobbyists ourselves, we need to help teach others how to create good quality 3D.

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Movie critic argues the world is a flat surface and 3D is not needed

Critic insists the world around is a single flat surface and agrees to remove one eye ball since it is not needed anyway, says 3D is useless: Hollywood and Fine – Marshall Fine Blog » Blog Archive » Why 3D doesn’t matter.

Presumably he thinks the advent of “talking” pictures did not add value and the later introduction of color, well that just added distractions from the story! In fact, let’s go back to theater stages – no, let’s just go back to books – no, let’s just go back to oral story telling!

Does the world need movie critics? No. In one city where we used to live, the local paper’s movie critic larded his reviews with French phrases and citations to exotic foreign films, usually labeling the American made movie as pointless. At which point we knew it would be a good movie for us to see!

3D, Business

Global live 3D broadcast via Internet demo’d in November

I think 3D will take hold on the Internet before broadcast 3D really gets underway:

Taking place between November 26th-30th, thousands of Internet viewers all over the world saw the best Russian and Vietnamese surfing athletes performing long board and short board styles in Vung Tau, Vietnam. What was unique was that, for the first time, viewers could watch the event in 2D, 3D and even 3D without glasses.

via Like a 3D window to the world – Russian Surf Championships | 3D News from 3D Focus.