91Èȱ¬ Festival Of Technology
Post categories: innovation
| 14:10 UK time, Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Update:Judy Parnall has written up the Festival in a new post.
The poster outside the conference room in the bowels of TVC
Oliver Grau, Lead Technologist at Kingswood Warren, discusses 3D content production for visual effects and interactive media
A slide from Oliver's presentation
Audio visualisation demo
The crowds milling in TC3
The open-source codec Dirac
Above are some photos taken at the 91Èȱ¬'s Festival of Technology, which is happening today and tomorrow in Television Centre. There are more photos in our .
It's being run by the 91Èȱ¬'s Research and Development team. There are lots of interesting sessions, projects, gadgets and big, big television screens.
Nick Reynolds is editor, 91Èȱ¬ Internet Blog.
Comments
Do we spy a for the no-need-for-glasses 3D effect?
WHAT?! Dirac isn't dead??
Further investigantion even finds a blog:
Alan - the "glasses-free" 3D we're working on is indeed based around lenticular displays; we have a LCD display from Philips 3D solutions that we were demoing at the Festival. 3D without glasses gives lenticular displays an enormous "wow-factor", but they introduce compromises of their own: the 3D effect only works properly at certain angles, and it's not currently easy to convert between the format used by the Philips display and the formats used for 3D cinema.
Samsung recently announced a line of "3D-ready" plasma displays that use glasses to give the 3D effect, so it's not clear yet which technology (if any) will see widespread adoption. Certainly the current resurgence of 3D in the cinema is encouraging for fans of the technology, though.
how hard would it be to start recording programs in stereo (or even just mono with some sort of distance away information saved). given how many repeats are about, Im fairly sure may programs recorded today will be viewed in 3D, and maybe you could add an iPlayer option for 3D video as i use 3D glasses on PC for 3D effects and would quite like them to do something useful.
From a marketing point of view both options of
1) showing old programs in 3D
2) showing programs in 3D on the iPlayer
would show that the 91Èȱ¬ is still cutting edge