new lenticulars

[P3D Martin Simon <msimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    I'm surprised that no one has mentioned it yet but I 
recently saw a new type of lenticular sports card which I
think is really an advance of the art.  They are transmission
lenticulars (not reflection type) that you hold up to the
light.  When rocked, they play back about 3-4 seconds of
"video".  They go by the name "motion" something.  The first
couple were called skymotion.  (Apparently there was a second
set of lesser reflection lenticulars which were also called
skymotion so don't get confused).  Now shipping to retailers is
a set of football motionvision cards.  The maker is really
Kodak (kodamotion) which I think has some winning technology 
here.  The cards will retail for $5-6 each.  This might be
a big commercial success for Kodak's Depth Imaging
group, which has showed large 3-D lenticulars at the NSA 
conventions.  Reportedly, they are working on adding 3-D 
depth and motion to the lenticulars.  One of these is called
virtual vision but I haven't seen it yet.  As this technology
improves we could see some interesting things.



Martin Simon   msimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx    www.physics.ucla.edu/~msimon


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