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     JoshCobb Rating: N/A |
For anyone who is interested, Kodak will be demonstrating a new type of autostereoscopic display at the Game Developers Conference at the San Jose Convention Center on March 23-26. It's a very new technology that allows a desktop display to present each eye an image that looks like it is in a big screen movie theater. Each eye gets an SXGA image at 45 degrees by 36 degrees field of view. We have a bunch of games running. Madden 2004 feels like you're in the game! If you are near San Jose, California, you might like to see it. | ||
| Lars Ahnland Rating: N/A |
I don´t get it. How can a single display show two different pictures for each eye without shutterglasses? And how can you say anything about FOV when you don´t know how far from the screen the viewer is (I mean it varies, doesn´t it)? This sounds interesting though, so please explain. | ||
| Josh Rating: N/A |
Lars, the system has 2 LCD screens, one for each eye. They are projected by an optical system into your eyes to create a virtual image with the user focused at infinity. It feels like you're floating in a movie theater about 1 1/2 screen heights away. | ||
| BOPrey Rating: N/A |
Lars, JoshCobb is talking about an autostereoscopic disaplay (single display show two left/right pictures to each eye without shutterglasses). Hope you know what that is. Some threads here acturally have extensive discussion on this technology. | ||
| Josh Rating: N/A |
BOPrey, I'm not sure you're thinking about the same technology. There have been a couple of obscure papers given on it at some conferences, but I haven't seen anything on this website that references it. Which threads are you speaking of? | ||
| BOPrey Rating: N/A |
Lars, Well, this tech has been on the news lately relating to 3D. You can look for the thread "Yahoo news blurb about Sharps 3D notebook". Current, Sharp has a product, and other company in the US(don't remember its name) also has a product(display only). I am working on a display accessary for mid/low end users as well. Quality is not as good as other, but the price is much much lower. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
when will this new Kodak autostereoscopic 3d or like technology be on the consumer market? also how to get in on the content provider part? dose the content need a spicial process? or is it any stereoscopic content like field sequential video footage? | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
when will this new Kodak autostereoscopic 3d or like technology be on the consumer market? also how to get in on the content provider part? dose the content need a spicial process? or is it any stereoscopic content like field sequential video footage?dose Kodak or anyone else have a web site on this new 3d technology? | ||
| Josh Rating: N/A |
There's a press release about it here: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040315/155461_1.html This is not the Sharp technology, it's something completely different. It does not use parallax barriers or lenticular screens. It has 2 separate screens, so it requires a left image and a right image to be sent to each screen. This can be done out of a dual head VGA or in page flip mode with a demultiplexer. | ||
| BOPrey Rating: N/A |
You are right Josh. It won't surprise me when we finally see, it will look funny. | ||
| Anonymoose Rating: N/A |
IMHO a lame way to go for a desktop display. Kodak used to have a big (office cubicle) sized version of this that they made for the military (for a simulator). It gives an excellent 3D image but the problem is that you have to put your eyes into two little 35 mm circles where all the light is focused - making it even more restrictive than the other autostereo displays. They could have gotten the same effect in a much easier manner: take two projectors and mount them on the table, focus them at infinity, and let the user look through the two 35mm lenses like a pair of binoculars, at the screens inside. Duh! PS: If you try this at home, be sure to install a nice DARK filter so that you don't burn your eyes out. | ||
| BOPrey Rating: N/A |
Friend of mine went to the show and spoke to someone about this. He told me last night, as far as 3D display goes, this Kodak thing is a joke. Kind of reminds him of ViewMaster, except it is bigger. | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
I agree it is a joke. I saw it at the SPIE Conference in San Jose back in January. It reminded me of an old Nickelodeon. [What can you expect from film guys...] You have to put your face and eyes right up to the display to see it. This is ridiculous. Only one person can view it at a time. Futhermore, it is expensive. You could do much better with multiple sets of good wireless LCD shutter-glasses and a DLP projector that runs at 96 or 120 FPS (Christie Mirage or Barco Galaxy). Then multiple people can view 1280x1024 images without any restrictions. But this system is hopeless. | ||
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| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Josh, please, contact me via tp@porrmann-awater.com. I would like to know professional details about that system. Here in Germany there is an exibithion where a good working autostereoscopic system would be very a very fine answer to some problems. sincerly -Thomas Porrmann | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
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