Re: stereo future

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >_ Disposable cameras are very successful, why not a stereo one ( I built one
> > from 2 single-lens disposables, it was easy and it works ) ?
> >Any answers ?
> 
> *****  Simply because you don't own a company that makes disposable cameras.
> It takes vision and knowledgable purpose to create such a simple and obvious
> product. The companies that make disposable cameras don't have their own


I don't think that's the reason.  If you made and somehow sold disposable
stereo cameras, what would the user do with it?  How would they view the 
results and still be as easy as current 2-D disposables (and get the results 
at a 1-hour joint)?  Even if you owned the 1-hour joints as well.

Camera is the easy part.  Acceptable processing/viewing/using result is the 
hard part.   I think this is a constant in all of the 
why-doesn't-everyone-do-stereo topics.

For the general public, any solution has to NOT require explaining what
a "window" is!  Won't fly.  Just won't.

I think the best shot at meeting this sticky point is the use of computer
screens which may also be one's living room TV screen as well (if one
goes along with Mr. Gate's vision) in combination with viewing apparatus
which allows a group to watch the same screen in 3D.  

It allows the entertainment business be the driving force "enabler"
as well as solving the multi-person problem with what amounts to a
digital virtual-projection system through the (hdtv probably) screen.
Intial products would probably be 3D computer games feeding into the
combo TV/Computer appliance.

This solution, however, favors a digital camera solution rather than a 
disposable film solution.

That's my SWAG anyway. :-)


Mike K.


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