Category Archives: 3D

3D, Business, Still photography

North Korea in 3D Photo Art Exhibit

January 21, 2016 3DM 1 Comment

CNN report on a photographer’s 3D photo gallery of North Korea.

Source: 3DPRK: Take a 3D tour of North Korea – CNN.com

3D, Business, Virtual Reality 360

VR needs compelling content to succeed

January 8, 2016 3DM

Consumer 3D faded due to:

Lack of content, lack of content and lack of content
It was launched in the midst of economic depression
The 2011 quakes and tsunamis damaged manufacturing plants (as well as later floods in Thailand), after which manufacturers eliminated their consumer 3D camera products

VR faces a similar challenge of lack of content, plus VR gaming requires top of the line computing gear that few people own just yet.

Which leads to words of caution:

Early optimism that virtual reality is about to blossom into a new mainstream medium could collapse into despair

Source: Lessons from CES: How VR Can Avoid the Fate of 3D TV – IEEE Spectrum

VR seems likely to achieve success in gaming and specialized applications (engineering, science, medicine for example).

Will VR be a big story telling medium?

How will consumers react to the need to wear VR helmets?

(I use the term “VR helmets” since they are …. Consumer tech reporters said 3D required wearing “3D goggles that no one wanted to wear” – the same writers now enthusiastically endorse VR helmets because … well, wearing a helmet is simpler than wearing glasses?)

3D, Videos

Yellowstone Epic in 3D, Youtube version, Part 1

January 2, 2016 3DM 3 Comments

I finally managed to get Sony Vegas Pro to output a proper side-by-side format 3D video for Youtube. When producing .mp4 files, Vegas is scrambling the images. But I found I could output to WMV file format instead and it did that properly.

3D, Videos

Yellowstone Epic in #3D

December 29, 2015 3DM

640,000 years in the making – Yellowstone Epic in 3D! Part 1 (4 minutes)

3D (Top over bottom format, for 3D monitors and TVs): https://flic.kr/p/CDBrz2
2D: https://flic.kr/p/C689mg
3D red/cyan anaglyph (glasses required): https://flic.kr/p/BGmUzy

Photographed in 2012 but delayed due to *numerous* technical difficulties with video editing software that destroyed the project three times! Even in this final version, Sony Vegas Pro is unable to output standard side-by-side 3D without scrambling the video!

Photographed using dual Lumix GH-2 cameras and dual Canon HF M100 camcorders. Music licensed from The Music Bakery.

“3D Thumbs outwards!”, says Sikel and Ebert
“Totally rocks!”, says a geologist
“Puts the Steam in Steampunk”, says Professor Elemental
“Breathtaking – can’t breath due to the sulfur!”, said a kid at the hot springs
“The Force Awakens!”, said no one in particular.