MasterImage glasses-free 3D
Burbank-based MasterImage, which says it is the second largest digital 3D cinema system with 1,600 theaters in 37 countries, dazzled attendees of last week’s 3D Gaming Summit with a sample of its new glasses-free (autostereoscopic) LCD-based 3D technology on a cell phone.
Already available in Japan, founder and CEO Younghoon Lee and president James Bower say [...]
Cameron taking “Aliens” 3D?
As Ridley Scott prepares two 3D prequels to his original 1979 “Alien,” James Cameron is considering a 3D conversion for his 1986 sequel “Aliens.”
Just before participating with several scientists in a panel discussion at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena Tuesday night called “Is Pandora Possible?,” the director of “Avatar” told 3DHollywood.net that after he [...]
Landau: Cameron’s 3D approach
“Titanic” and “Avatar” producer Jon Landau likes to say the approach he and director James Cameron take to 3D is to provide the audience a window into a world.
He provided his audience at the first 3D Gaming Summit Thursday morning with his own window into the world of 3D filmmaking during a keynote interview with [...]
3D gaming bigger than movies?
“The potential of 3D gaming, I think is greater than the potential of 3D films,” according to “Avatar” and “Titanic” producer Jon Landau.
Landau made the comment in a keynote interview with event co-producer Bob Dowling Thursday morning at the first 3D Gaming Summit at the Universal Hilton. (Story continues below following 2 1/2-minute video of [...]
Chipmunks Go Dodger Blu
Chipmunks movie producer Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. told HollywoodInHiDef.com / 3DHollywood.net that not only is he taking the irrespressible singing and mischievous rodents to 3D for their next cinematic outing but that he’s exploring converting the previous two Chipmunks movies dating back to the mid-1980s to 3D as well.
Bagdasarian’s revelations (seen in 2 1/2-minute video below) [...]
Cameron: Thank God for Blu-ray!
Director James Cameron says many aspects of the Blu-ray version of “Avatar,” being released April 22 by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, are as good or better than the theatrical versions.
“Thank God for Blu-ray,” he said following the screening of a clip from the movie on Blu-ray Disc to selected members of the media for [...]
Alice revealed: Imageworks
Five-time visual effects Oscar-winner Ken Ralston and the team at Sony Pictures Imageworks recently provided a small group of journalists with a behind-the-looking-glass peek into the enormous and myriad types of effects, animation and technology that went into the making of “Alice in Wonderland” for Tim Burton and Disney.
The following 3 1/2-minute video features the [...]
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 [...]
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