Re: 3D TV

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 09:05:29 -0800
>From: P3D  Lawrence Kaufman  writes:
>
>Roland, 
> 
>You're right. It sounds just like 3DTV's! I bet they have some 
>different titles available...maybe even in english? Didn't Alex say he 
>was going to Japan? A system by Spatial Media (StereoVision) was 
>anounced last February in a New Jersey newspaper. It was to be a very 
>inexpensive 3D TV system with as many as 300 films available. The 
>article stated it was hoped it would be ready by last summer. Rumor had 
>it that they have a prototype and it wouldn't be ready until fall 1996. 
>Rumor now is...it is still not ready! But, we are!!!!!
>
>Only 58 days left to enter 'The First Ever 3D Movie/Video Competition'!
>


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Well, I don't feel so bad now. I went to alt.3d and commented about the
system mentioned in this thread. Someone wrote back that this is indeed
something different. The description is somewhat misleading and the original
author didn't really seem aware of finer details.

Supposedly this new system uses motion in a video stream to establish
difference or depth information for layers in the scenes. These are
processed into a left and right version, on the fly, and presented as
alternate fields for viewing with LCD goggles. It does depend on motion for
the 3D to be present but not in the same sense as with the Pulfrich effect.
Supposedly it is intended as a 3D conversion for ordinary 2D material, not
for viewing already 3D content. Sounds pretty interesting anyway. There is
valid depth information available from some motion so why not use it?

Larry Berlin

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