Also consider the products offered by 3dGuy.TV – description here, and order here. I held Al’s gimbal rig in my hands at NAB and it is a great product for shooting stabilized 3D with the GoPros.
Category Archives: 3D
Seattle’s Fremont Solstice Parade photos and video
I have posted a lot of 2D and 3D photos of the Fremont Solstice Parade and naked bike ride, on my Flickr page. You need to log in to Flickr using your Flickr or Yahoo account, to view any NSFW photos. Yes, the bike ride really is a naked bike ride.
I am also in process of posting 3D videos of the bike ride, parade and HONK! Fest West, the celebration of street bands (heavy on the brass). You can find these on my Youtube channel.
Amazon’s 3D Phone may have a stereoscopic lenticular display
It’s not clear whether the phone has stereoscopic 3D or not: Amazon’s Smartphone Is Coming on June 18 with 3D Effects | Digital Trends.
Update: I doubt it has a lenticular display. The online video makes it look more like it is using 3D perspective effects typical of a video game, but in a good way. Its sort of like the well known 3D “wiggle” effect used for 3D still photos, except here, the “wiggle” is generated at 60 fps by tilting the phone and is under the control of the user.
But that description implies it uses head (eye) tracking to dynamically create appropriate 3D imagery and positioning through a stereoscopic lenticular glasses free display. It says its similar to the Nintendo 3DS display, which did use a lenticular glasses free display.
However, I heard no mention of a glasses free display (may be those are bad words). In fact, Amazon seemed to prefer “dynamic perspective” to saying 3D, as if the word “3D” is poison.
If it does have this ability, then it can likely play Youtube 3D videos and other 3D content on its 4.7 inch display.
Update: Some of the media in advance of the announcement, and after the announcement, are calling this a “holographic” display. It is not holographic. I stop reading when I see someone use that word to describe a stereoscopic display – they are very different technologies.
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Alaska Airlines flight in 3D
Horizon Air flies Bombardier’sde Havilland Dash 8 Series Q400 70 passenger turbo props for Alaska’s shorter routes. This photo was taken at the Oregon International Air Show in the summer of 2013, as a conventional 2D photograph. I converted it to 3D by creating a depth map using StPaint Plus.
Click either image to see the full size version on Flickr. Be sure to subscribe to my Flickr photostream as I am now adding photos every week.
Alaska/Horizon have painted one aircraft with the logo and colors of each college/university for the towns they fly too. They fly to Eugene, OR, home of the University of Oregon – and this is the aircraft painted in the UofO scheme. They’ve done this for many college towns, including, for example, Washington State University in Pullman, WA.
This fly over at the Oregon International Airshow at the Hillsboro, OR airport, was extremely well received, to put it mildly. A very enthusiastic crowd response. The aircraft was piloted by a captain who lives in Hillsboro, OR and who did his first flight training at Hillsboro Airport.
IMAX introduces 4K 3D camera
Their theater projection system, however, is still dual 2K projectors: Here’s the 4K IMAX Camera That’s Going to Make 3D Movies Awesome Again.