1. Hamish and Andy in 3d – Whaatt??? Well...
One of the things that I loved the most during my most boring afternoons is ‘The Hamish and Andy Entertainment’. These two super-crazy Aussie blokes are tv-comedians and also DJs for the Today network of radio stations right across...
2. The Avatar experience – The Quality of...
Well I must say this was an amazing film and an outstanding effort by James Cameron and although I am not a fan of applauding a film after it has finished unless of course its a preview or premiere, this one had me wondering if this...Hamish and Andy in 3d – Whaatt??? Well there version of 3D anyway.
One of the things that I loved the most during my most boring afternoons is ‘The Hamish and Andy Entertainment’. These two super-crazy Aussie blokes are tv-comedians and also DJs for the Today network of radio stations right across the country. The radio program that they are hosting is ‘Hamish and Andy, Drivin You Home’ from 4 until 6pm. Hamish Blake is always the naughtiest one, and Andy Lee’s the smartest one. That’s why he always wins their stupid games or challenges. Haha!
Among the silly, idiotic and funny things they do on the show, Hamish & Andy are in 3D! and there reasoning “It is 2010 after all”
After critical acclaim that the clever 3D tricks Jez has done on these photos didn’t work, he has now finally tested it with the red and green 3D glasses...
Sexy 3D and Stereoscopic Clothes and Merch to get you through 2010
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Well I have been scouring the internet over the past few weeks to bring you some of the coolest T-Shirts, Mouse Pads, Clothes and Accessories that the world wide web has to offer, and boy is there a lot.
Below is some of the cream of the crop that has made the grade and found itself in the list for January 2010. Enjoy…
3D Glasses by GraphiChris
Make a customized shirt with zazzle.com.au
Stack of 3D Glasses Mouse Pads by bebek_ijo
Design custom made mouse pads on zazzle.com.au
3D Glasses by bebek_ijo
Buy a shirt online from zazzle
Bearded Man with 3D Glasses by bebek_ijo
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Harlock 3D Glasses by DaddySucksFactorie
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The Avatar experience – The Quality of a great movie versus the cost of seeing it
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Well I must say this was an amazing film and an outstanding effort by James Cameron and although I am not a fan of applauding a film after it has finished unless of course its a preview or premiere, this one had me wondering if this was worthy of a clap anyway.
From the spectacular alien world beyond imagination to the crisp 3D graphics provided by James Cameron’s new proprietary FUSION digital 3D camera system, Cameron made use of revolutionary image-based performance capture techniques, and a real-time virtual camera system, to create new CG worlds and blend them with dramatic performances and live action in ways never before possible. The overall film was a wash of mind-blowing High Definition 3D animation and an outstanding story that leaves you hanging off the end of your seat for...
Yabazam Online Store for High Definition 3D Stereoscopic Videos
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Yabazam is a new service that was launched in late November. The website is operated by a company whose 3D technology has been licensed by and/or bundled with 3D consumer products by Sharp, Hyundai, Samsung, and Acer. The company DDD is the one behind the TriDef software that works with both Nvidia and ATI video cards and was most recently used in the Acer Aspire 3D laptop. The idea behind selling 3D videos in HD quality and at an affordable price online is fantastic and a lot of people asked for such services as still finding full length and good quality Stereoscopic 3D videos is a serious problem. Thus more services like Yabazam are really needed as more and more people are getting and going to get some sort of stereoscopic 3D capable systems.
The only drawback for the Yabazam service is...
Mind-blowing 3D projections on buildings
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Check out this mind-blowing video from a company that uses a powerful projector (or projectors) to overlay a 3D version of the building onto the real building and then manipulates the image to pull of some really awesome effects.
For those of you who live in Adelaide you may have seen a similar thing with the northern lights on north terrace during the 2008 Adelaide Festival Of Arts which is set to return in late February 2010.
An impressive and stylish projection on buildings, with mind blowing visuals in true 3D space, it truely is a spectacular new way of lighting building! 3D Projection on buildings is the communication tool of 2010, and delivers with stunning impact!
NuFormer Digital Media develops the state of the art 3D projections. These 3D projections will be custom-made to fit any...
YouTube introduces 3D to videos full stereoscopic converters with many options – yt3d:enable=true
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YouTube introduced a stereoscopic player for watching videos in 3D. If you play a 3D video a drop-down menu will show options for red/cyan and amber/blue 3D glasses and some options that don’t require glasses.
Here’s a brief overview video.
To enable the 3D player, you need to add the following tag to one of your videos: yt3d:enable=true.
Peter Bradshaw, a Google employee, has more information about this experimental feature: I’m the developer working on the stereoscopic player as a 20% project. It’s currently very early, hence the silly bugs like swapping the eyes for the anaglyph modes. A fix for this is in the works.
The current tags are provisional and may change or expand. They are:
yt3d:enable=true Enables the view mode.
yt3d:aspect=3:4 Sets the aspect of the...
Apples guide to “Mac’s for 3D Molecular Visualization”
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Well being a bit of a computer geek I found this one particularly interesting but my girlfriend the science geek would love it so I just had to write about it.
Check out her blog here www.aschoonerofscience.com
Advanced visualization plays an essential role in the study of macromolecular structure leading to drug discovery and design. With the latest developments in active 3D stereo graphics, scientists can substantially enhance their understanding of molecular function.
The Mac for 3D Molecular Visualization
The powerful combination of the Mac Pro workstation and technologies by NVIDIA and REAL D StereoGraphics allows you to view scientific phenomena in active 3D stereoscope. Graphics take on a new level of realism with the latest PCI Express graphics cards in Mac Pro. With the NVIDIA Quadro...
Vintage View Master Steroscope – Buy it on ETSY
This is a vintage Sawyer’s View-Master Stereoscope Model C and it is in excellent shape. Made of black bakelite in Portland, Oregon this item was used with stereoscopic picture reels. This particular model was the first to have a slot into which the reels were placed for viewing. This is the non-outlined patent variant. It is in its original box, which has minor scuffs but no splits or tears. The View-Master is in good workable condition. Circa 1950’s.
$75.00 USD
FOXTEL tipped to launch 3D TV In 2010 – Said to join the BSkyB convoy with Panasonic in Australia
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Foxtel is believed to be looking at a new 3D TV Channel similar to what is set to be launched by the Sky UK Network while Panasonic is set to launch a brand new 3D TV in 2010.
One of the UK’s only HD providers Sky UK recently announced that in 2010 they will launch a 3D channel called Sky 3D (See our BSkyB Post). The new UK network will require that users have a HD DVR set top box and a special 3D ready TV.
In Australia several manufacturers are set to launch new their next generation of 3D enabled TV’s in coming months as more 3D content becomes available. Samsung and LG already have 3D TV’s and Sony is hot on their heals boasting 3D BRAVIA LCD TVs, 3D Blu-ray Disc products, 3D VAIO Notebooks and 3D PlayStation 3.
At the weekend Titanic” director James Cameron signed...
Sky to launch 3D TV channel in UK next year
With 3D television becoming more than just an excuse to don the ubiquitous red and blue glasses, UK broadcaster Sky is hoping to broaden the appeal and get an early jump on the competition, by announcing their plans to launch Europe’s first 3D TV channel. Featuring a combination of movies, entertainment and sports, the channel is due to be available next year as part of the BSkyB subscription service.
Initially slated for a 2011 release, an unexpected doubling in the number of subscribers to the Sky+HD service in the last 12 months has seen the company push for an earlier roll out of the 3D programming. The 1.3 million Sky+HD subscribers will be able to use those set top boxes to access the 3D content, however customers will also require special glasses and a “3D ready” television set...
Excite you eyes – Now you can see...
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Sometimes you have to respect a company if only because they’re doing something different. iZ3D has released a 22-inch widescreen monitor that offers a state of the art 3D LCD that brings stereoscopic vision to almost every game release for PC. //
The monitors run at resolutions up to 1680×1050 and feature a 170-degree viewing angle, 5ms response time, 700:1 contract and 16.7 million colours. The system can toggle into 3D mode assuming you are wearing a pair of polarised glasses, and standard picture.
One of these iZ3D monitors retails for about $US399.00. This is one screen that you have to see for yourself.
If you do decide to buy enter the referal code below to receive 20% off. What a deal!!
http://www.iz3d.com/monitor
Referal code: 34dd373b
The 11 Second Club – The October...
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For those of you that are new to the 3D industry you may not have heard of “The 11 Second Club”.
The 11 Second Club runs a monthly character animation competition open to everyone. Founded to fill the void left by the 10 Second Club when it stopped taking entries. Aja and Mark the founders of The 11 Second Club spend their free time improving the site to make it the best it can be.
This month’s clip is another over-the-top piece, but the guys over at the The 11 Second Club think you’ll find it quite different from last month’s. With a melodramatic reading from a cartoonish male voice, Aja and Mark think this clip will be particularly well suited to the free character rig designs out there. Enjoy!
Entries can be character animations in any medium, from CG animation...
Illuminated09 South Australia’s...
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For those of you folks that Live in sunny old Adelaide, Illuminated09 is not to be missed!
Show casing some of Adelaide’s finest illustrators and 3D artists, including some of Dan Cormick’s work. It promises to be a great exhibition.
so get yourself to Illuminated on Friday 9th October from 5:30pm – First floor foyer, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide
And check out the website:
http://www.illuminated09.com/
Sony Develops High Frame Rate Single...
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Sony Corporation announced the development of a single lens 3D camera technology capable of recording natural and smooth 3D images of even fast-moving subject matter such as sports, at 240fps (frames per second). This technology combines a newly developed optical system for single lens 3D camera which captures the left and right images simultaneously, together with existing high frame rate (HFR) recording technology to realize 240fps 3D filming. Sony will demonstrate a prototype model incorporating this technology at “CEATEC JAPAN 2009″, to be held at Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba City, Japan, from October 6th.
Newly Developed Single Lens Optical System
In existing half mirror 3D camera systems with separate lenses for the left and right eyes, the parallax range is...
Extreme Places in 3D – Swinburne...
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Travelling to the farthest reaches of our solar systems the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology brings alien landscapes to life in stunning 3D. From the crushing atmosphere of Venus to the icy-depths of Jupiter’s moon Europa, see the choking sandstorms on Mars, volcanic eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io, and descend with the Huygens probe through the mysterious atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan. The Rivers have been there… now it’s your turn.
Using cutting edge animation and data collected by the probes themselves, Extreme Places brings to life these landscapes in stunning HD 3D. For those of you living in Australia the launch of the RiAus lifts off to science and celebrates the opening of its new home in Adelaide with...
Walt Disney Studios has a new head...
Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger named Rich Ross as the new Chairman of The Walt Disney Studios earlier today, replacing longtime boss Dick Cook who resigned suddenly last month amid rumors he was fired. Ross has worked for Disney for thirteen years, the last five of which he served as President of Disney Channels Worldwide (read his official bio there). The Walt Disney Company chose Rich Ross to overhaul its struggling motion picture studio, based on his past successes with the cars toons and Disney Channels. Rich Ross, current president of Disney Channels Worldwide, will immediately take over the top job at Walt Disney Studios, according to members of Disney staff who were briefed on the matter. The studio has had a leadership void since its former chairman, Dick Cook, resigned under pressure...
Mental images Unveils iray Rendering...
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Mental images, an NVIDIA company, today introduced iray – the first fully GPU accelerated, commercially supported, turn-key rendering solution for a wide range of 3D graphics application developers. iray technology leverages NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) to deliver unbelievably fast photorealism to designers, engineers and consumers.
Life-like graphics can now become interactive as iray rendering technology exploits the massively parallel processing power of the GPU, enabling more convincing 3D visuals, greater levels of creativity and faster decision making.
“With iray rendering technology, what used to take product designers, visual effects artists and CAD users hours to render can now happen in a matter of minutes without compromising the quality and detail of the image, said...
Taking 3D Moviemaking to the next...
Academy Award®-winning filmmaker James Cameron’s AVATAR his first feature directorial effort since “Titanic” in April 2007 Utilizing a blend of live-action photography and new virtual photorealistic production techniques invented by Cameron’s team, AVATAR offers audiences a unique cinematic experience. AVATAR was filmed in 3D for release in the new digital 3D format. Cameron made use of the revolutionary image-based performance capture techniques, and a real-time virtual camera system, to create new CG worlds and blend them with dramatic performances and live action in ways never before possible. AVATAR is written by Cameron from an idea he nurtured for over a decade, while working on the technology necessary to realize its wholly imagined world. A return to the action adventure sci-fi...
Movies in 3D for 2009 and way beyond
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Below you will find a weekly updated comprehensive calendar of all the 3D movie releases that we know of in the next few years up until 2013. As always, release dates will change. If you know of any wide releases that I’ve missed, please leave the information in the comments. (US release dates)
2009:
G-Force – July 19th, 2009
Official Synopsis: “Producer Jerry Bruckheimer brings his first 3-D film to the big screen with G-Force, a comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-Force are guinea pigs Darwin (voice of Sam Rockwell), the squad leader determined to succeed...
Bacholor of Arts degree in stereoscopic...
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LA university introduces the first Bachelor of Arts degree in stereoscopic 3D as demand from Hollywood grow
The year of 3D ... In May, Disney/Pixar's Up became the first 3D film to open the Cannes festival. Photograph: Ho/Reuters
With Hollywood currently gambling much of its financial future on the success of 3D technology, it was only a matter of time. The Bacholor of Arts in 3D has arrived, and predictably it will be taught at the higher education institution where George Lucas and Pixar’s John Lasseter both learned their trade, the University of Southern California.
Variety reports that a new interdisciplinary programme in “stereoscopic” 3D is to be launched at the university’s school of cinematic arts, teaching all aspects of the technology across various media, from movies...
