Future of 3D gaming and media *spawn

AT&T abruptly drops ESPN 3D from U-verse during the X-Games citing high price, low demand:
http://hd.engadget.com/2011/08/01/a...espn-3d-from-u-verse-during-the-x-games-citi/

 

Hello,
I found this,they call it "the unlimited technology" and it sounds promising,what do you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gAbgBu8R4&feature=player_embedded

 

This was already posted in two other threads.

 

Looks like 24" 3D Monitor is the crowd favorite. Another manufacturer prepping monitor for mid-late August launch:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/01/viewsonic-reveals-24-inch-v3d245-3d-monitor-ships-this-month-fo/

I finally found a 24" LG Cinema3D passive 3D monitor in Fry's. We will probably have monitors in US from at least 3 vendors in September.

 

I can only say that after my last experience with a Viewsonic 3D monitor I wouldn't touch one with a fucking barge pole.

 

The resolution in theaters is not being halved. Unlike at home, theaters use 1 projector for each eye and a silver coated screen. You get two full 2K images beamed over one another and a pair of glasses to separate the two (at least in RealD). I guess the blurriness is simply a byproduct of the way modern theaters work: there are no longer projectionists that take care of such problems. It's a fully automated process now, and if two images aren't aligned perfectly anymore, the only ones who will notice is the audience (or rather 1 out of 500 in the audience).

 

I wonder if penoptic cameras would fit nicely for 'stereo 3D'.

The ability to move a virtual camera to eye locations and focus to a different depths of an already stored image would solve a lot of the problems with current stereo 3D.

 

Wahahaha... I haz it !!! the cheezburga !

Got a Acer 27" 3D monitor from the Fry's at Palo Alto.

Tested with GT5 and Sports Illustrated's 3D swimsuit video.

I'm too hungry to type long posts.... but (meow~) I finally found it !

 

Silly for them to agree so late...
http://gizmodo.com/5828667/the-manufacturers-are-finally-standardizing-3d-glassestogether

 

Good thing the new standard should be backwards compatible with 2011 TV's.
I bought a Samsung plasma PN59D7005 3D tv and two pairs of glasses for it, one the cheapest €50 non-rechargeable battery operated and the other a bit more expensive €99 with rechargeable battery.
The cheaper glasses are not as comfortable to wear, but they keeps the reflections better away, the more expensive glasses are very comfortable, but they have more reflections. I ususally wear the cheaper glasses even though they start hurting the bridge of my nose.
If there would be standard glasses that combine comfort and image quality, I'd buy a pair. Maybe the light blocking could be improved too.

 

They are going down the drain actually , with nanotech changing the rules in real-time.

I couldn't stand LCD 3D, tried twice, it was way too bad, DLP is another level (as it should be).

Quantum dot array displays will be here soon. BTW.

 

How do you know that? There have been loads of technologies 'with us soon' that never make it to market. It's taken an age to get OLED from the concept and early prototypes to actual displays, and even then it's a minority. If you wait for QD tech before getting a new display, you may be waiting a rather long time.

 

Its already here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21790143?dopt=Abstract
http://www.compoundsemiconductor.ne...9733873/name/Dream-screens-from-graphene.html

OLED is not here because its not cheap, unlike LCD or nanotech stuff. ( And we all know why LCD is cheap).

They sat on it way too long , now it can be even called obsolete.

 

So they print metal grids on graphene sheets. The printing scales, but producing large graphene sheets does not.

Also, nothing about quantum dot displays.

Cheers

 

and more to the point, this tech was used 60 years ago

 

They impregnate the graphene with Quantum dots , hook it up to UV excitation and that's about it. All this stuff exists already.
This is that "synthetic flexible LED".
Its cheaper and better than OLED, it makes next to zero sense to manufacture OLED anymore.

 

That's laboratory test examples. It's not 'here' until it's in a commercial product available to buy (and it's several years later that the tech become mainstream priced). That's when all sorts of issues that aren't apparent in producing proof-of-concept samples rear their ugly head and put a crimper on things.

I won't go any more OT with this. Suffice to say over the past decades I have known many a headline technology never get anywhere, and I personally would never wait on any specific tech. I 'waited' as it were for SED, but that clearly wasn't going anywhere so had the sense to buy LCD as here and now. If there's a TV I want that's giving good results, I would not wait for a much better technology that's 'just around the corner' as it may never appear. Much like I won't put my cinema-ticket buyng dollars aside for an upcoming movie like Uncharted because it might never get released, even if it's in production, even if it's in post. Quantum dot displays certainly aren't a current or near relevant point of the adoption of 3D either. When the first 3D QD display hits the market, then you can start talking about how it'll revolutonise the industry!

 

Firmware 3.70 has been released. Supports 3D photo viewing in XMB and the "Photo Gallery" app.
3D HDD video playback not supported in this release. 8^(

More details here, amongst other features:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/08/09/ps3-system-software-update-v3-70/

EDIT:
Currently, to watch the videos on my 3D Bloggie, I have to use the bundled PC/Mac software, or plug the camera into the 3D monitor/TV directly. The 3D effect is very very well done. I thought the result would be somewhat mediocre. ^_^ Very glad I brought it to the trip.

3D photos are certainly less impactful than videos.

Will have to wait for Sony to update PS3 again. 8^(
My Acer monitor only has 1 HDMI input. It's inconvenient to plug/unplug my PS3 and the camera to view the videos.

 

ATSC Begins Work On 3D Broadcast Standard:
http://www.twice.com/article/472407-ATSC_Begins_Work_On_3D_Broadcast_Standard.php

 

Always bet on QLED ( Q!!!)

http://aacpheb.dowsport.com/

Also its not close enough to CRT