[photo-3d] DepthCharged .jps (standards)

[Andrew Woods <A.Woods@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Toeppen wrote:
> The .jps standard was developed by VRex and reinforced by the free
> DepthCharge software.  The Photonics West 3D conference (chaired by list
> member Andrew Woods) had a meeting on standards ('95?). Vrex people,
> Stereo Graphics, NuVision and others agreed to the VRex proposal for
> this standard. I handed out some CDs with .jps images to Lenny Lipton
> and others.  All have since written their software to accept the .jps
> standard.  It is no longer rocket science, it's just a good way to
> handle stereo. The common platform is useful to web surfers,
> manufactures, and content providers.

Thanks for the plug John.  The Stereoscopic Displays and Applications
conference has had a "standards forum" at the 1998 and 2000 conferences
but I understand the "General Purpose Stereoscopic Data Descriptor"
"standard" was agreed on before that.  The document I have has a copyright
date of 1997.  You can get a copy of the document via the SD&A conference
standards web page:  http://www.stereoscopic.org/standard/index.html

We have scheduled another standards forum at the 2001 conference (Jan 22-24)
where we hope to move a bit further forward on ratifying a standard for
field-sequential 3D Video (NTSC & PAL).

Cheers,
Andrew.

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