Re: Why 3-d for the masses?

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Sam Smith asks:
>Upon reading recent discussions on 3-d for the masses as well as designing a
>camera for them, I have to ask this: Who cares about the masses?

It's not a matter of caring for the masses, though in a technical sense you
and I are both a part of that mass measured one way or another.

The reality is that new access to 3D is arriving in the marketplace. That
increases the demand for 3D content and tools for making that content. The
so called *masses* will want to easily plug their own subjects into the new
3D viewing systems, whichever they may be using.

The new market will not survive unless 3D becomes relatively easy to work
with on the general public level and gets accepted and used, regularly. The
benefits to those who are already 3D nuts is that new and better tools will
come about for us too. I want some of the new tools and I want a reasonably
active marketplace for 3D products/content as well. There is always a
reserved place for quality craftsmanship regardless of whether or not the
public is involved. In this case it's the public's acceptance and use that
can fuel the manufacture of better and up-to-date 3D camera systems, etc.
Without that potential market, the manufacturers won't bother. Without the
mass market, new tools would be outrageously expensive. 

Bring on the mass market and let's help them figure it out.

3D by it's nature will remain special.


Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.sonic.net/~lberlin/


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