A new 120 fps 3D Full HD Projector Chip.
Did a little looking around regarding digital holography – this is a technology that is definitely coming in the future. And would potentially be far more desirable than stereoscopic 3D. Very interesting ….
Keep in mind that when you have “cineplex” sites with multiple screens, they typically need only equip a couple of screens. Let’s say a cineplex has 8 screens – as they are still showing a lot of 2D movies, they need only set up perhaps 1 or 2 theaters with the 3D technology.
Is Variable Frame Rate Better than High Frame Rate for 3D?.
There are times, in video, where we want 30 fps – but that can result in jittery motion if the shutter speed is fast. We can either use a longer shutter speed (e.g. 1/30th of a second) to blur motion, or we could shoot at higher frame rates (60 fps).
The authors propose shooting subjects that have fast action in 60 fps but continuing to shoot slower moving subjects in 30 fps. In post production, the entire production can be rendered as 60 fps by doubling up the 30 fps frame.
They did their tests, by the way, for 3D video. 3D likes good detail and does not like lots of motion blur, complicated the decision: how to render detailed 3D without ending up with motion blur problems.
(Actually, the link is to a PAL world discussion where they do thinks in 25 or 50 fps. I translated to 30/60 fps for the North American audience. Also, I did some similar tests sort of along the lines of the authors, but was just playing around with 720p/60 for 3D and found the results were much better than I had expected. But that also may have depended on the inexpensive cameras I was using.)
The week ended Oct. 14, 20th Century Fox’s Prometheus, in its first week in stores, generated 25% of its unit sales from the 3D version which, it should be noted, came with an extra bonus disc to encourage sales, according to Nielsen VideoScan. Since 76% of Prometheus sales were of a Blu-ray configuration, that means 33% of Prometheus Blu-ray shoppers opted for the 3D edition — a collector’s set that included the film on Blu-ray 3D, regular Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copy iTunes and UltraViolet.
via 3D Starts Popping Up in U.S. Homes – The Hollywood Reporter.
Is there a rehab group for 3D photography addiction?
I went out to shoot plain old fashioned 2D fall color pictures. Within about 10 minutes I was looking at railroad tracks going off into the distance and thought, “That would be cool in 3D!” and was doing the “cha cha” to shoot a 3D image with my one camera.
In another 30 minutes, I had two cameras mounted on my tripod mount … and was shooting 3D video. Sigh. I am addicted to 3D. Is there any hope of recovery?
(I posted this earlier on my Google+ page!)
