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Exceptional3D News

11-09-2011 Exceptional 3D and X2O Media have integrated their solutions to offer a fully custom auto-stereoscopic 3D digital signage CMS.


Read the Press Release Here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/exceptional3d/javitsnyc/prweb8949458.htm

11-15-2011 Exceptional 3D Expands Product Line and Customer Experience for a 'Picture Perfect' 2012

Read More: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/15/prweb8964910.DTL#ixzz1f887CcQg

Toshiba Demos the 55" ZL2, Glasses-Free (autostereoscopic/automultiscopic) monitor.

Toshiba demoed the new ZL2 at the IFA trade fair in Berlin. The monitor is 3840x2160 and achieves the glasses-free (autostereoscopic) effect with "a range of lenticular lenselets" (http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2011/09/04/toshiba_unveils_glasses-free_3d_tv)

LG Announces Glasses-Free 3D with Eye-Tracking Monitor

LG announces a glasses-free 20" monitor based upon a Parallax Barrier and a single-user eye tracking mechanism.

Read the article here.

Automultiscopic 3D, Auto-Multiscopic 3D and Auto-(N-View)-scopic 3D

For a while now, the term used to refer to "no-glasses" 3D has been the word autostereoscopic or auto-stereoscopic. Since stereo refers to only 2-views, the words automultiscopic and auto-n-view-scopic seem more appropriate now since we are usually dealing with 5 to 9 views, and the term is catching on in the industry.


Here's some webpages which use the new term "automultiscopic":


http://people.csail.mit.edu/wojciech/DispAntiAlias/index.html


http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~matthias/SupplementalMaterial/AntialiasingFor3DDisplays/

Converting Stereo 3D to MultiView (N-view) 3D

In the world of autostereoscopic video production, you will often be presented with a client that has 3D footage already shot (in the can) and they want it converted to MultiView (N-View) 3D, for example, 8-view 3D, so that they can display it on an autostereoscopic monitor.


This is not a simple or cheap task, but there are options available to make it happen.


A popular camera often used for stereo-3D rigs is the RED ONE Camera.


3D Film Factory sells rigs for the Red ONE; you can see the 3D-BS (Beamsplitter) here.
They also have a side-by-side rig, the 3D-SS, viewable here.


The end result is that you get a RED Cinema Camera File (*.r3d) which contains a stereo pair of videos, e.g., you get 2 pictures for each frame of video. Each picture is at a slight horizontal offset, so that you get disparity which lets you extrapolate a 3D image.


Now what?


Now you let the professionals do their magic with your 2-pics-per-frame-stereo-3D, and you get back an 8-pics-per-frame video, ready for your autostereoscopic display.


I know of two ways to get the conversion done. The first is a company located in Florida named 3D Eye Solutions. I haven't viewed any of their work personally, but I have a friend who has and he says they do good work.


The second option, if you're familiar with 3D International's z.l.i.c.e.3d software, is to buy their new plug-in, Stereo Tools, and let it do the magic for you. I haven't seen their work either, but I am a user of z.l.i.c.e.3d and I can affirm to it's wonderfullness.


Hope this helps.

Nokia Patents Autostereoscopic Eye-Tracking Method

Check it out here:

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2011044936&IA=EP2009063420&DISPLAY=STATUS