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3D Gaming Summit Sights

3DTV Advocate — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:45:00 +0000

The 3D Gaming Summit had a lot of great sponsors and exhibitors. Here are a few of the displays seen at the 3D Gaming Summit.

3D Gaming Summit Sponsor Board

Virtual Images the 3D Company had a bunch of 3D Posters on display. You get the 3D effect of these posters as you stare and move past them. They were really cool and really stood out against normal posters.

Avatar 3D Poster

Resident Evil 5 3D Poster

Kick Ass 3D Poster

Arkham Asylum 3D Poster

RealD 3D is the leading global licensor of 3D technologies. Their technology was used in the theaters for movies like How to Train Your Dragon 3D, Clash of the Titans, and Shrek Forever After.

RealD 3D Poster

Master Image is one of the fastest going 3D solution providers in the world.

Master Image Poster

This was at the entryway of the conference room.

3D Gaming Summit Display Boards

The 3D Gaming Summit had a huge projector displaying World of Warcraft in 3D. It would be amazing to play on this screen where your character was your same height.

Huge 3D Projection Display 1

Huge 3D Projection Display 2

Huge 3D Projection Display 3

Huge 3D Projection Display 4

The summit had many 3d presentations so a pair of 3D glasses was needed. At the end of the day you could recycle the glasses here.

Glasses Recycling Bin

We will be providing more coverage of the individual exhibitors in the next set of posts.

3D Gaming Summit

3DTV Advocate — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:00:57 +0000

The very first 3D Gaming Summit is taking place tommorow in Los Angeles, California. The summit will feature an amazing lineup of gaming and entertainment leaders and will feature a huge 3D gaming lounge with all the latest 3D games and systems.

This summit should be a great catalyst for the adoption of the 3DTV standard. HD Gaming Systems like the XBox 360 and the PS3 helped increase HDTV adoption. This event will bring together the biggest companies in the industry and should help them work towards creating a real roadmap for 3D gaming in the near future.

Keynote Speakers

Jon Landau, Producer of Avatar

Paul W.S. Anderson, Writer, Director, Producer of Resident Evil Franchise

Phil Eisler, GM of 3D Vision, NVIDIA

Josh Greer, President & Co-Founder, RealD

DTG to develop the UK 3DTV Standard

3DTV Advocate — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:00:32 +0000

Standardization is an important part of 3DTV becoming mainstream and DTG is putting it’s foot forward to developing the UK 3DTV standard. Simon Gauntlett, the technology directory at DTG, made the announcement at DTG’s 3DTV seminar on January 21st.

DTG launched a conference in 2009 to gather members’ views on 3DTV technology and the role that they should have in developing its standards.

Since this conference 3D evolved from a cinema technology to a home entertainment technology. Networks are already set to launch 3D services this year. Standardization has already been set for Blu-ray and HDMI. The last piece of the puzzle is the standardization of the broadcast of 3D content.

DTG has been part of every development in UK digital television and this latest announcement tells us that 3DTV is about to become mainstream.

Spider-Man will be in 3D

3DTV Advocate — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:00:49 +0000

Spider-Man will be released worldwide to theaters in 3D on July 3,2012. Jeff Blake, the Chairman of Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing & Distribution, made the announcement. The new movie has not yet been titled, but it will be a reboot of the series. Marc Webb will produce and James Vanderbilt will write the screenplay. The producers will be Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin from Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios.

Jeff Blake said “Spider-Man is the ultimate summer movie-going experience, and we’re thrilled the filmmakers are presenting the next installment in 3D. Spider-Man is one of the most popular characters in the world, and we know audiences are eager and excited to discover Marc’s fantastic vision for Peter Parker and the franchise”

Why does this movie have to be so far away? I can’t wait for it to come to the theater. I watch most movies at home, but anything that is amazing in IMAX or 3D, I will go to the theater. I just hope the reboot is done well. This series will start with Spider-Man in high school and I expect there to be some crazy high school shenanigans and bully beating.

Panasonic’s First 3DTV Will Be $3,500

3DTV Advocate — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:00:38 +0000

The first 3DTV coming from Panasonic will be the 54-inch Viera (TH-P54VT) and it will be priced at around $3,500. The set seems to be quite pricey, but they are releasing other models as small as 50 inches. Most experts are estimating that all the 3D models will be around $800 more than the non 3d models.

MotoGP to Have 3DTV Support

3DTV Advocate — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:00:34 +0000

According to an interview by ComputersandVideoGames.com, done with Greg Bryant, the lead designer of MotoGP, they are planning on including 3DTV support with the PS3 version of the game. They are also planning to use the PS Eye to do head tracking which should make for an amazing 3D gaming experience.

I believe that this is only the start for 3D gaming. I am expecting that first person shootin games like Halo and Modern Warfare are going to be going 3D next and once they go 3D there is no turning back. This should follow the same trend as Avatar did with movies. The first 3D games will do really well and then all other games will follow suit.

Trendy 3D Glasses

3DTV Advocate — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:00:15 +0000

The first entry into what we expect to be a huge wave of trendy 3D glasses has come. These glasses look a lot better than the current plastic multi colored ones that you get at the theater. They have a kind of Austin Powers look to them. If you hate the current offerings at your local theater and like to stick out in the crowd, then these are the ones to get.

These glasses cannot be used with today’s 3D televisions, because they use active technology. These can be used with home projectors or at the movie theaters.

3D Contact Lenses – Are They Coming?

3DTV Advocate — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:02:04 +0000

According to Oliver Pasch, Sony’s Head of Digital Cinema Europe, 3D contact lenses are in the product development pipeline. This was said during a discussion with Patrick Schappert from a German web portal called Grobi.tv. No other details were released.

Based on the little information that was disclosed, we can make a few assumptions about this technology. For one, it would have to be a passive form of 3D technology. Active technology requires additional electronics to dissect the images. These extra electronics would not fit on a contact.

There are currently two forms of passive 3D technology being used in today’s 3D glasses. Linearly polarized glasses and circularly polarized glasses. Linearly polarized glasses usually have one side processing horizontal images and the other side processing vertical images. This technology does not allow you to tilt your head, because the images will bleed together. Circularly polarized glasses process images that are superimposed on to the screen using circular polarizing filters. Because the filters are circularly polarized, the viewer can tilt their head either way. We can make an educated guess that the contact lenses will be using circularly polarized technology. Contact lenses can rotate within a persons eye based on its shape.

If these contact lenses do come out, they won’t work with the current lines of 3D televisions. The current models require active 3D glasses that have electronics behind them.

I believe the best use for these would be for computer monitors at work. Many people at work spend hours in front of a monitor and 3D glasses may be uncomfortable wearing them for 8 hours at a time. 3D contact lenses would be the perfect accessory for a work station that would allow you to do work in 3D.

New HDMI Specification Targets 3DTV

3DTV Advocate — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:38:43 +0000

The latest HDMI specification has been released by HDMI Licensing LLC. The company intends on releasing a 1.4a version that will have an update for 3D television.

This was done in an effort to standardize 3D formats for movies, gaming, and broadcast content. The HDMI Consortium recognized the importance of doing so after seeing the mainstream adoptiojn of 3D gaining momentum and television networks including 3d technlogy on their roadmaps.

This is great progress for 3D television technology. Standardization always makes adoption of any technology easier for companies. They do not have to develop their own technology, they can just use the standard.

Panasonic’s Full HD 3D – What Is It?

3DTV Advocate — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:43:34 +0000

Full HD 3D is Panasonic’s latest and greatest technology. It promises the same exact 3D experience as the movie theater. Panasonic claims that it is the world’s first HD 3D Technology.

Before we can understand the new technology, we must understand how the brain processes 3D images and how the previous 3d technology works. The brain creates 3D images by processing two images at the same time. These images come from each of your eyes. The brain then takes these images and reconstructs the space. This allows us to see images with 3 dimensional depth. These 3d images require twice as much data as a standard 2d image. In previous 3d systems the number of pixels had to be reduced by half to create left and right eye images. This reduced image resolution and greatly reduced the picture quality. Panasonic’s full HD 3D does not have this limitation. It is able to create 3d images without reducing any image resolution.

Panasonic’s full HD 3D technology is possible due to a combination of their technologies. Plasma panels have a great moving image response due to plasma’s self illumination characteristics. The 3D Drive system is capable of 60 frames per second for each eye totalling to 120 frames per second. This is the same number of frames per second as the movie theaters. Panasonic’s active shutter glasses are able to disect the 120 frames and distribute the correct frames to each eye. Lastly, BluRay’s 50GB capacity is able to hold a complete 3D HD movie.

Panasonic has announced 5 Viera Plasma Televisions that will have this technology. Panasonic’s Viera line is known for having the world’s highest contrast ratio, having clear sharp moving images, and beautiful color reproduction. The 3D Plasma VT25 Series will have the TC-P50VT20 (50-Inch), TC-P50V25 (50-Inch), TC-P54V24 (54-Inch), TC-P58VT25 (58-Inch), and TC-965V25 (65-Inch). Each set will come with a pair of their active shutter 3D glasses.

The prices have not yet been released, but they are expected to be released some time this spring.

viera world’s highest contrast ratio, clear sharp moving images, beautiful color reproduction

50gb blu ray disks can hold a high def 3d movie.