Hubble 3D, premier experience
Thank you IMAX and filmmaker Toni Myers for providing audiences who think they saw 3D for the first time when watching “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland” with an example of how much more dynamic 3D can be in the visually and existentially impactful “Hubble 3D,” opening in about 50 original large format IMAX theaters on [...]
Vince Pace does 3D Globetrotters
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 [...]
ESPN 3D: Wide World of Sports
Orlando, Florida may not seem the likeliest spot for 3D technology innovation.
Even less likely is a spot situated between several baseball fields. But that is where some of the most aggressive development and experimentation in 3D TV is happening, at the new Innovation Lab at the newly re-branded ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex (formerly [...]
“Wheel,” Sony Open golf in 3D
“Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy!” are being prepped for a 3D makeover, and Sony recently recorded the Sony Open golf tournament in Hawai’i in 3D.
Both were revealed during a media preview Friday of Sony’s new 3D Technology Center at Sony Studios in Culver City, which was announced by Sony chairman Sir Howard Stringer at CES [...]
Sony 3D Tech Center Preview
Directors, cinematographers and other industry professionals can get a hands-on course in 3D cinematography, storytelling, and even 3D terminology such as interocular in a 3D training course starting early next month (March) at the new Sony 3D Technology Center.
The Tech Center was first publicly announced by Sony chairman Sir Howard Stringer at last month’s CES [...]
3ality a 3D camera reality
With 3ality Digital CEO Sandy Climan and VP sales and marketing Anglea Wilson Gyetvan standing nearby, director of photography Dave Drzewiecki demonstrated 3ality’s “beam splitter” camera system during a media preview of the new Sony 3D Technology Center on Friday (Feb. 5).
The camera system not only offers remote control adjustment of the spacing between [...]
Oculus3D for 3D theater conversion
A trio of 3D and cinematography industry veterans have teamed up to form a technology and a company that has created a solution to the limited number of 3D theaters.
Oculus3D has developed a new lens and print format for 35mm film and projectors that will allow the current 125,000 non-digital theaters globally to immediately be [...]
Katzenberg: “3D TV way more…”
Jeffrey Katzenberg has been perhaps the biggest proponent of 3D in the past several years.
As recently as last fall he said he thought movie studios still had several of years in the market to themselves with the unique technology before 3D was offered in homes. Last week he was taken aback at all the 3D [...]
Panasonic: 3D faster than HD
3D TV will grow much more quickly than HiDef, according to Panasonic executive VP and COO Joseph M. Taylor.
Taylor feels vindicated that 3D TV exploded at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2010 after his company provided the lone voice for 3D TV at CES in 2009, promising to deliver 3D TV by 2010, and presenting [...]
Cowboys to offer 3D luxury suites
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is already trying to figure out ways to get even more revenue from the giant new stadium he just opened this year.
He figures one of his best opportunities is 3D.
He hopes to use 3D to upsell his luxury suites; those with live 3D broadcasts of the game will be sold [...]
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