Re: 3D Anaglyphic Movies Online

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 
>From: P3D Jan Gjessing writes:
>.......................
>To my understanding it isn't possible to make an MPEG or Quicktime
>movie which would be compatible with field sequential (Liquid Crystal)
>glasses.........................Andrew.
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>
>Just a few days ago I came across the website of 
>(AIS) Advanced Intelligence Systems Co. Ltd.(Kr)
>
>http://chaos.ais.co.kr/index.html
>
>AIS claim they do web construction using a 3D Video Server.
>They have many examples of 3D movies made for MPEG, MPEG2, AVI format
>and Anaglyphic mode...............
>They only use anaglyphic means or LCS-glasses alternate field Video.
>For those who are able to connect with LCS-glasses, I would like to ask
>some feedback regarding the problems Andrew Wood and George Marchall
>mentioned before.
>AIS site also have a live 3D "underwater" webcam that refresh every 60
>sec., viewable for LCS-glasses only!
>
>jan
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*****  I don't think there's ever been a problem doing anaglyphic movies for
the PC or internet. Movies for LCS systems do have problems. They are
probably using an interlaced format so systems which don't support
interlacing are unable to view them. The Total3D system is incapable of
movies on the PC at this time.... unfortunately. 

There was a message awhile back about a 3D video titled *Out The Window 3D*
from John Williamson. In it he mentioned having the material available on
CD-ROM so I wrote to him about the method he was using to compress it for
that purpose. The following quotes are from his initial letter and the
follow up where he describes how he got his animation material compressed to
retain the stereo information.
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>At nearly 1/2 hour in length, it is by far the longest stereoscopic 3D 
>computer animated video in history, and the 2nd longest animated 
>stereoscopic 3D video (only Starchaser is longer).
>
>It is designed for use with any field sequential stereoscopic 3D device 
>which can be connected to a VCR (VIO i-glasses, VRex Virtual Surfer, 
>Stereographics, etc.).  I have also successfully demonstrated, that the 
>tape also be compressed and distrbuted on a CD for use on an IBMC PC.
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>
>There are 2 compression CODECs available that will keep the 3D.  One is from
>Horizon technologies and they compressed a few demos for me that are
>available from Virtual iO on the sample disk that ships with each unit.
>
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****  I was unable to find any direct information about this on the many
pages of information on websites related to Horizon Technologies.

 
Larry Berlin

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