The end of the yellow boxes:
The venerable but bankrupt camera company Eastman Kodak has put the iconic film portion of its business up for sale.
Eastman Kodak said on Thursday that its selling the business unit, which includes its "traditional photographic paper and still camera film products." Film has been overtaken by digital imaging in recent years.
Google Invents 3D Video Conferencing for Notebooks & Beyond – Telepresence Options.
But from the drawing, their interaxial spacing is WAY too large to be useful. Let’s assume its just a concept.
The actual patent application appears to be no so much about 3D video conferencing as about using two cameras for either 3D or two separate 2D images, say, for a 2nd person sitting next to the first.
This goes with my sense that business applications of 3D could be more lucrative than the better known entertainment options.
Wish I could go:
The 38th National Stereoscopic Association Convention “3D-CON” is planned for July 25-30, 2012 in Costa Mesa, California, USA. Come immerse yourself in some spectacular 3D stereo over six action-packed days! This is the place to find cutting-edge stereo theatre, informative workshops, a stereoscopic art exhibition, image competitions, room hopping, a 3D auction, a large trade fair and a technical exhibit of new equipment and displays.
I do not understand wedding videos, at all: Your Wedding Video Shot in 3D with RED Epic Cameras. The RED Epics and 3D rig weighed about 45 pounds – so portable!
People spend a lot on a Hollywood-level production and then end up watching it later a couple of times. I do not get it.
It is hard to believe, in this YouTube age, that taking video of people in public could be a crime. But the police are serious about not wanting to be recorded — and they have been making arrests to prove it.
via Adam Cohen: Is Videotaping Police a First Amendment Right? | TIME Ideas | TIME.com.
A U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston, a Court of Appeals in Chicago, and a filing by the U.S. Department of Justice are establishing that the people have a right to record police activity in public. Continue reading Courts ruling that video recording police in public is legal