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Hillcrest Labs’ patented Freespace in-air pointing and motion control technology will see action in LG’s first 3D-ready, Internet-connected HDTV which will be shipping in South Korea first, followed by a global release in due time. Known as the “Magic Wand” remote, it will work in tandem with LG’s new INFINIA line of LED LCD HDTVs. These new INFINIA models are the first to utilize LG’s unique “Magic Wand” remote control system, where it will be able to bring together Internet-based applications, TV menus and embedded games among others using nothing but simple hand motions in order to manipulate your on-screen cursor on the TV. Not only does it boast a high resolution, the Magic Wand is also able to work from any position thanks to its orientation compensation technology.

Al Caudullo of Explore Media Group has been working with Hillcrest labs and is gearing up for Wealth TV’s 24 hour 3D content launch in Jan, with around the clock shoots in SE Asia.  [Press Release]

Verizon has completely a field trial on its fiber-optic FiOS network, in which it delivered bandwidth approaching 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) to business customer in Taunton, Massachusetts.

The demonstration, conducted in June via Verizon’s gigabit passive optical network (GPON), was designed to show that today’s FiOS equipment can support higher bandwidth–including 1Gbps throughput–without major changes to the network, the company said. The GPON platform, developed by Motorola, supports bandwidth of 2.4Gbps downstream and 1.2Gbps upstream to customers connected to the passive optical network.

Verizon’s point here is that FiOS is more than capable of delivering throughput that far exceeds current maximum speeds. For consumers, today’s FiOS Internet tops out at 50Mbps downstream.

“This kind of bandwidth capacity will provide Verizon the ability to continue to meet FiOS customers’ needs by offering more bandwidth to support services such as 3DTV, ultra HDTV, multiplayer gaming and HD video conferencing,” said Brian Whitton, executive director of Verizon’s technology group, in a statement.

The actual throughput speeds in the field trial were 925 megabits per second (Mbps) to a local server, and more than 800Mbps to Verizon’s regional test speed servers. The existing FiOS service was left in place, and the trial didn’t degrade the customer’s voice, data, or video services, the company claims.

Verizon has big plans for its FiOS brand. It’s reportedly working with Motorola to develop a tablet device that would allow customers to watch FiOS digital TV. All of this is great news for Wealth TV, who has set a Jan 2011 deadline to go 24 hour 3D programming, including 2 projects currently in production with  and Al Caudullo Productions,  WOW 3D And Markets &Tastes 3D.

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If there is one area most everyone can agree 3D will benefit is the live action draw of a feisty sports Match. The World Cup has paved the way with a strong following for its 3D coverage, and hot on the tournaments footsteps is NFL setting the stage for an obvious match up in at home 3D entertainment.

Responses from select groups viewing select football games in 3D have consistently screened well, so expect more 3D in the NFL as Version stages the first one exclusively on their FiOS TV service.  The match commences  Sep 2^nd between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots on FiOS Channel 834 for subscribers in the NYC area  including Long Island and Westchester and Rockland counties, as well as for subscribers in northern New Jersey, Mercer County, N.J., Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Besides geographic proximity, you will need the service, a compatible TV and 3D glasses to experience the broadcast.

Sport is proving to be stepping up as a leader in 3D content available, but the content is surely catching up to the hardware already available out there. WealthTV has it’s VOD package 3D offered to Verizon FiOS subscribers across the US, which includes but certainly not limited to WOW, a series built around worldwide travel experiences, and Markets and Tastes,  a culinary show, produced by Al Caudullo Productions.

The current onslaught of 3d films being released is a testament to remerging technology that exploded in the early 1950’s. Starting Aug 13 and running for two weeks in august, New York City’s Film Forum  is hosting  a two week classic 3-D series featuring films from the golden era of Hollywood’s foray into 3-D cinema, 1953-54.

Today Avatar lies at the pinnacle of state of the art 3d film making, and we are on the threshold of 24 hour 3D channels beaming into homes around the world. Wealth TV (http://www.wealthtv.com) will be launching around the clock 3D programming in Jan 2011. This isn’t the first time the public has undergone a period of insatiable craze for 3-D entertainment.

Re-looking at these pioneers truly demonstrates how far the art and technology of 3-D cinema has come. The Film Forum, located at 209 W Houston at the edge of NYC’s SOHO district, is the only cinema in New York equipped to screen vintage double screen 3-D projection. The 15 films featured will be screened with polaroid filters and lenses using double projectors, 2 reels running simultaneously, one for the left and right eye respectively.

Included in the series are some of the most accomplished films of this era. KISS ME KATE (1953) is a show within the film staging of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, the Broadway musical adapted for the screen by MGM, and serious stereoscopic dance fest.  HOUSE OF WAX ( 1953) tells the story of Vincent Price as a mad wax sculptor who,  aided by his muted henchman, repopulates his Victorian Chamber of Horrors with Wax coated victims. DIAL M FOR MURDER ( 1954) is Hitchcock’s tale explores a flat broke husband’s jealousy of his rich wife’s friendship with another man, and his plan for the perfect murder.

You can find more information and the entire slate of films scheduled at http://www.filmforum.org/films/classic3d.html .

With mass appeal for 3D programming growing, the demand for home systems is ever rising. Samsung’s dominant position as a provider of home 3D systems (http://3dguy.tv/3d-store-2/3d-tvs-2/) calls for 3D content at an unprecedented pace.

Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, today announced the exclusive availability of the 3D Blu-ray version of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.’s (DWA 31.37, -1.04, -3.21%) global 3D blockbuster, How To Train Your Dragon. The 3D BD will be featured in Samsung’s 3D starter kit, which also includes two pairs of Samsung 3D glasses for at-home viewing. Read the rest of this entry »

“The Mozaex 3D system plays media including 3D Blu-ray and DVD movies, CD and MP3 music, photos and on-demand NetFlix movies, and Pandora music among other online media,” Mozaex CEO Douglas Kihm said as part of the announcement. “Any media can be played in multiple rooms simultaneously, resulting in unprecedented ease, elegance, and excitement.”

The new models will be demonstrated at CEDIA Expo in Atlanta next month at booth #3844

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3D movies are becoming popular, and so are 3D ultrasounds. Now parents are seeing their babies before they’re born.

Myra and Dave McCain are a few weeks away from having their first child.  “That’s crazy. I’ve only seen it as a black and white shadowy picture and now it’s…real,” said Myra. “Nine months of this baby moving around and kicking me and feeling it move and then finally see their face before the big show. Everything is so detailed. It’s like looking through a little window.”

Miracle in Motion opened in Fort Wayne three years ago doing 3D and 4D ultrasounds, 4D is just the flipbook version of the 3D images.  “All those pictures are compiled together to create that movement, that’s 4D,” said Van Zant.

“As the husband, you’re living through them and seeing an actual photo of the baby’s face, it’s like, there’s your baby. It’s incredible, it’s emotional,” said Dave.

3D ultrasounds aren’t covered by insurance. Packages range from a $100-$200.

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It can make video games more realistic and buildings more energy efficient. They are driving to discover a model of the whole world.

The model is textured (covered) with the photographs.  The team is also behind the technology that creates 3D views of major cities on Google Earth. So, why not fly into the buildings and not just around them? The outdoor version relies on GPS but you can’t rely on GPS indoors. So, the team in the imaging lab combined a new breed of miniature laser with an inertial management unit (IMU) like the ones that guide missiles.

“Yes.” says Avideh Zakhor, “One day, you’ll have a little pack of sensors on your belt. And, as you walk inside buildings, you collect data about everything. Every location in the universe, both indoors and outdoors will eventually be mapped and we’ll have it all online. So, without ever going anywhere, you can see what everybody’s interior looks like.”

source: abclocal.go.com

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The pioneer of 3D print on the written press market in Europe was a Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure, the first ever in Europe to release a 3D edition. It was followed by the British tabloid The Sun which also went 3D at the beginning of June. Just a couple of months after these European launches, two of the leading sports newspapers in Romania released 3D editions. Competitors Gazeta Sporturilor and ProSport published their first 3D editions on the same day, at the beginning of this month.

“The moment when 3D newspapers appeared abroad, it was clear to us that ProSport needed to offer its readers at least one such edition,” Cosmina Noaghea, publishing director of PubliMedia International, tells Business Review. So far, there have been two ProSport 3D editions – on July 1 and 12. If advertisers continue to be interested in these projects, the publication is willing to release more.

“Of course, more effort was required from everyone involved in this project – the editorial, marketing, production and distribution departments,” she adds.  For instance, much greater effort for processing the images is needed for a 3D edition. The lay-out department started working a few days earlier in order to process the pictures. All the images were processed and the 2D images modified using a depth map in order to emphasize the various fronts. Thus, most pictures had three fronts – the main front, the secondary front and the background. More attention was also given when the paper went to print.

The 3D format was seen as an opportunity “to bring one more argument in favor of the value of the written press. It does not represent the future of the written media,” says the director.  But it appears that for a while at least, until 3D mania dies down – if it does – these newspapers have found the successful recipe to keep print relevant.

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