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In a scene that showcases how some surgery of the future might be performed — and certainly taught — a high-definition TV screen in a University of Michigan operating room shows larger-than-life 3D images of Wendy Sarna’s brain.

Dr. B. Gregory Thompson Jr., Sarna’s neurosurgeon, carefully clips off a bulge, or aneurysm, in an artery at the back of Sarna’s skull. “The degree of detail is just so much greater in 3D,” Thompson says as images flash on a 46-inch TV screen.

Later, students will use 3D glasses to watch a video of the operation and examine tiny brain structures magnified about three times their normal size.  U-M’s neurosurgery program is the first in Michigan with the 3D system, one of only 50 sites in the nation. The technology, now used in brain, spine and cataract procedures, promises to revolutionize the teaching of medicine.  There also is a belief at TrueVision Systems Inc., the Santa Barbara, Calif., manufacturer of the system, and among some doctors, that the same technology Hollywood uses to make movies could improve surgical outcomes, too.  The entire operation is captured by a 3D camera hooked up to a microscope Thompson is using in the surgery. A video of the procedure will be used for years to come to train University of Michigan neurosurgery students.

Elsewhere, some doctors using the 3D systems in ophthalmology, the biggest users of the technology, say that physicians trained to watch such lifelike movies may prove to be better surgeons someday because they will have a more intimate familiarity with the body’s vital structures.

“The learning curve will go through the roof,” said Dr. Robert Weinstock, a Tampa-area ophthalmologist who has been using 3D equipment in cataract procedures for several years.  Weinstock’s Eye Institute of West Florida, uses the 3D technology in several ways, including patient education. Three or four times a year, in a room set up like a movie theater, senior citizens contemplating cataract surgery can watch a procedure with 3D glasses performed in an operating room upstairs at the center. “It eases their anxieties and fears,” Weinstock said. Some meetings are standing-room only.

Weinstock is such a believer that he regularly uses a big 3D screen to guide him in eye surgery. It lets him operate from a seated position, wearing 3D glasses looking at images magnified to three times their normal size. By sitting, rather than standing and bending to perform as many as 30 to 40 cataract procedures a day, “I do a better job,” he said.

TrueVision of Santa Barbara, Calif., the manufacturer of the 3D system, has federal approval to sell the system as a visualization tool for surgery. About 50 sites, mostly teaching hospitals, now use it for ophthalmology, spine and brain operations — procedures that require very precise surgical moves.

The company has filed for additional federal approval for new software that adds a guidance system for surgeons in cataract and astigmatism correction procedures. The software creates little dotted lines, or a template, that show a doctor precisely where to make a small incision by overlaying 3D images on top of previous tests. Weinstock is heading a study to test the software. In his practice, a common complication of cataract surgery dropped to .7%, from 1.6% that occurred when not using the system, he said. “In cataract surgery, if you cut too far forward you damage the cornea, and if you cut too deep you will rupture the capsule and lose the cataract in the back part of the eye,” Weinstock said. The complications occur in about 1 in 100 procedures, he said.

Other doctors are taking a wait-and-see approach. “It doesn’t make anyone’s surgery better, and it doesn’t provide anything we currently cannot do,” said Dr. George Williams, a nationally renowned ophthalmologist and chief of the department at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. Ocular microscopes surgeons now use have 3D technology built into them too, he said, though those systems can’t be used by more than two doctors at a time, if the microscope is fitted with two ocular systems. The 3D system “may have some benefits in teaching, but that remains to be proven,” Williams said. Dr. Kevin Foley, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, likes the fact that his entire OR team can watch the 3D screen. He uses the system to perform spinal surgery that sometimes requires the positioning of a patient on an operating table in such a way that the assistant is unable to peer through the surgical oculars.

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As we all know Hollywood is rushing to produce more 3D content and 3D is here to stay. In response to the slate of new 3D movies Panasonic produced the first 3D home theatre systems.  Now Panasonic have come up with the world’s first professional integrated twin lens full HD 3D camcorder. The camera, the twin lenses and memory card are all integrated into one unit making it a lightweight solution to 3D creativity.  It allows the convergence point to be adjusted and automatically adjusts for vertical and horizontal displacement.  Right and left FULL HD video streams are recorded onto memory cards ensuring high reliability.

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You remember those billboards in Minority Report, the ones that personalize what they display depending on who stands in front of it? Tokyo is rolling out digital billboards that do the same thing. In Tokyo, the billboards are outfitted with cameras that can determine the gender and age group of any passerby who takes a look at them. Even if you just glance at them, the digital billboards only need a second to figure out if you’re a young girl who would like Hello Kitty or an old man who would want a young girl. They promise they’re not recording anyone but they are collecting data to better target those old, so 2009 print billboards.

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Sony Explains

There’s been a lot of talk about how the process of producing a 3D image in videogames requires other visual sacrifices to achieve, but now Sony has revealed that their official guidelines to 3D PlayStation 3 games do in fact limit games to a resolution no higher than 720p.  Although the PS3 is indeed capable of presenting games in 1080p, Sony’s Simon Benson explained during a 3D demo at the Develop Conference this week that their guidelines prohibit 3D games from being portrayed in the highest resolution, as it wouldn’t allow for a smooth 60-frames-per-second (via Joystiq). This means that even games that run natively in 1080p (like Super Stardust HD) will still be locked in at 720p in 3D.

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Everyone is getting excited over the new 100GB and 128GB Bluray discs that were just recently announced. The only problem is that they will not be compatible with the current Bluray players and recorders that are currently on the market. Since Sharp is putting out the discs, it only makes sense that they will follow up with the machines that can use them. They have announced two new Bluray recorders that will be fully compatible with the new BDXL format and will support 3D Blurays as well.

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The new Nintendo 3DS proved that some exciting things can happen on a small display adding a Sharp-produced 3D screen layer. In 2009, Japan’s KDDI cell phone carrier introduced the Hitachi Wooo, which uses a similar 3D screen technology as the Nintendo 3DS, but made by MasterImage 3-D – a Burbank, CA-based company.

The additional layer costs $10-$15 for the manufacturer, can be added over both LCD and OLED screens, and turned off, if necessary.  It doesn’t require the 3D glasses we are accustomed to in movie theaters. However, it reduces screen brightness and resolution, which can be compensated to an extent psychologically with the  increase in perceptive detail, since different images are directed to each eye,
according to the company’s CEO. As Tony Soprano said to Jacky Aprile – “Lose the glasses!”. 
MasterImage 3-D’s CEO James Bower revealed that nearly all of the major smartphone manufacturers are experimenting with 3D for their future handsets. Bower also said that next year could see 3D on a US cell phone as well.

Having the display to visualize the 3D content is one side of it, but what about shooting 3D video and processing the outcome?  It looks like this is also being addressed, as a press release about Texas Instruments’ OMAP4 chipset for smartphones was touting the ability of the system-on-a-chip to process multiple cameras’ images for stereoscopic 3D recording of 720p video on your phone. TI also promised support for additional front camera for touchless gesture recognition, and hinted that these technologies can bring a three-dimensional user interface to smartphones.

Combine those dual-core CPU chipsets with MasterImage’s overlay on a phone screen (both are technologies that already exist), and next year starts to look like a very realistic timeframe for the first 3D smartphone to hit the US markets. Despite the fact that currently it is only a “wow” factor while playing some games (like on the Nintendo), 3D vision is not considered a trick in nature. Stereoscopic and depth of field perceptions are vital – just ask any trapeze player!  Many revolutionary features have started as a gimmick, so 3D UIs and 3D-HD video on our smartphones – we’ll take it,  just don’t ask us to pay extra!



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TV in 3D at home could become mainstream in as little as two years as prices for 3D TV sets drop and events like the soccer World Cup raise awareness of the technology.  Although many believe that consumers will never want to wear 3D glasses at home, and 3D TVs have only been on sale for a matter of months, there may be faster adoption of 3D than of previous new technologies.

Unlike high-definition video or the VHS-Betamax battle before it, where deployment was held up for years while movie studios and electronics makers supporting rival formats battled for dominance, 3D presents no such prospect as the HDMI cables that connect set-top boxes to televisions or other screens can detect and support many different standards.  

Often, new technology finds itself in a chicken-and-egg conundrum in which consumers do not buy new equipment until content is available, while media companies are not motivated to produce content until consumers buy the equipment to consume it.

But TVs are already on sale from Samsung that convert 2D signals into 3D in real time, meaning that consumers can already start to enjoy images leaping out of the screen, even with little original 3D content yet available.   DSG, Europe’s second biggest electronics retailer, said TV sales rose 50% year-on-year in the run- up to the soccer World Cup , with 3D creating a lot of buzz.

The technology isn’t perfect yet but could soon eliminate the need for equipment that studios use to upgrade 2D to 3D, which many analysts consider potential choice investments.  Stu Lipoff, a fellow of the Institute of  Electrical and Electronic Engineers – the world’s largest technical society – said: “It’s one of the most remarkable things I’ve seen in 30years in engineering.   The processing power is comparable to what five years ago you’d only find on a supercomputer in a university lab.”  The technology is made by the likes of Texas Instruments, Broadcom and NXP. Samsung, which was first to market, is expected to sell the lion’s share of 3D TVs this year, but Sony, Panasonic and LG are not far behind.  Samsung and Sony may be in discussions about a 3D alliance, and Sony hopes 3D models will make up 10percent of the more than 25 million LCD TVs it aims to sell in the next fiscal year.  Technology research firm ISuppli expects 4.2 million 3D TV sets to be sold this year, or about two percent of all LCD TVs, rising to 78 million in 2015.

Interest in 3D has grown very quickly, both among experts and the general public.  Public enthusiasm for 3D has been driven by the blockbuster movie Avatar, released at the end of 2009, which single-handedly raised awareness from 40 percent to 60percent among US consumers, according to analyst Stewart Clarke of research firm Informa.

Walt Disney sports broadcaster ESPN used the soccer World Cup to launch its first 3D channel, and ESPN’s president said the network had had “off the charts” success with its coverage.  And in the UK, satellite broadcaster BSkyB and its major shareholder News Corp are making big bets on 3D. Sky plans to launch a 3D channel this year after whetting appetites with broadcasts in bars of Premier League soccer.  “It’s absolutely incredible. It’s fantastic.

It’s the biggest development since black and white,” said Robert Kerr, a 27-year-old projects consultant, near London’s Westfield mall.

Informa believes 3D TV will take off only after the need to wear glasses has been removed, which it forecasts will happen some time after 2015. But the IEEE’s Lipoff says it is not unreasonable to believe it could happen in two to four years.

LG has recently started offering 3D TV sets that can be viewed wearing so-called passive glasses that are far cheaper and lighter than battery-powered active- shutter glasses. The televisions are more expensive because more of the work is done inside the set, but the glasses cost next to nothing.

Technology to view 3D without glasses does exist – chipmaker Intel demonstrated a version at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas – but is limited by only being viewable from certain angles. As such, it is more likely to succeed on screens watched by a single viewer like computer and cellphone displays.  Sean McCarthy, a video and neurobiology expert at Motorola, said: “Not wearing glasses could be more constraining than wearing glasses.” —


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LG offers its newest 3D TV bundles which include the Infinia LED HDTVs and the 3D-capable Blu-ray player BX580. To encourage sales, LG is going to offer a pair of 3D active shutter glasses necessary for 3D content viewing to those customers buying either an LX6500 or LX9500-series HDTV and the 3D Blu-ray player. The 1-2-3D bundle, as it is called, it also includes an instant rebate of $100 as well as a mail-in coupon for the Under the Sea free IMAX 3D movie.

Although the bundle has been announced, LG hasn’t yet revealed the prices for the 3D-ready HDTVs. However, the TVs should reach the stores this month. The price of the Blu-ray player will be $400 once it arrives in the stores, according to Amazon sources.

The LX9500 is leading the group and has 480Hz panels and LED backlights provided with local dimming and THX certified. The LX6500 has 240Hz panels. Both HDTVs are delivered in 55- and 47-inch sizes and can access LG’s Internet features like Vudu, Netflix and YouTube video streaming. Other options are Skype video chat and Picasa photos, but the chat option requires an appropriate camera.

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