P3D 3D Comments

[Bob_Maxey@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

>>From this highly informal and unscientific research, I would guess that
>>if you could overcome the viewing problem, maybe you'd have something
>>for the mass market (slides died for the same reason...), but then
>>there'd be all the other obsticles to overcome, .....


What viewing problem? All stereo photographers seem to realize that if it
is in stereo, it requires a viewer. It has been this way for a very long
time. I do not think that everyone wants stereo photography. After all,
very few people used the Nimslo and others when getting prints made was
easier and the cameras were widely available. The problem was lack of
quality.

There are anaglyphs, but not as good as Kodachrome in a Viewer. There is
Holography, no glasses required, but the quality is not there, either. We
have all types of systems out there - Barrier Technology is discussed more
these days, even though the basic idea has been around for some time.
Another attempt at another Stereo System.

I have listened to many people say that the public does not like to wear
glasses when looking at a stereo movie. I do not believe this. My
observation has been that people forget they are wearing glasses after a
short while.

What seems to happen is the projection is terrible and the glasses get
blamed for the problems people have.

Stereo is a subset of photography, and there it will remain I think, for a
long time. Stereo comes and goes and regardless of what people do to
improve the images, they fall short.

As far as Language being a barrier to marketing.. I suspect that if you ask
a hundred people what a 3D photograph is, they will understand immediately
what you are offering them.

We do have an overuse of the word stereo and 3D. It gets attached to lots
of things that are not stereo. 3D is often used to describe graphics, but
if you think of it, they are 3D. Three dimensions of height, width and
depth. However, none of the software developers will call a 3D graphics
program a Stereoscopic / Stereo graphics program unless they  can generate
Stereoscopic images. Most can by the way.

RM



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