The man long considered the go-to guy for 3D expertise by the likes of James Cameron, Panasonic, Sony, and almost everyone else, Vince Pace recently oversaw the production of the taping of a Harlem Globetrotters basketball game at the newly rebranded ESPN Wide World of Sports complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando.
Vince was experimenting with three handheld 3D cameras as well as 3D cameras mounted on the top of the scoreboard and a skycam, all of which worked successfully for the most part. The images were not only being watched by a crowd of people wearing glasses in the two production trucks, but also by executives and media in a special room inside the Milk House arena, comparing Sony TVs displaying the active shutter glasses system and the more common polarized glasses system.
Immediately after the taping, Pace talked with 3DHollywood (2 1/2-minute video below) about the strategies, challenges, and successes of the event and offered his views on how far to push the 3D effect in various mediums.
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(In addition to the video above, you can view here a 4 1/2-minute video of the ESPN Wide World of Sports event in its entirety at Walt Disney World.)
— By Scott Hettrick