CG Today - Stereoscopic News

MasterImage 3D, LLC has named Roy Taylor Executive Vice President and General Manager, 3D Display. The former NVIDIA VP moves from Silicon Valley to Hollywood, joining MasterImage 3D to drive adoption of its auto-stereoscopic 3D displays and strengthen content partnerships  across the mobile ecosystem.

MasterImage 3D provides digital 3D systems for theaters (2,500 are installed) and commercialized one of the world's first glasses-free 3D displays for cell phones, in 2009, based on the company's patented cell matrix parallax barrier technology. Taylor will lead MasterImage's drive to put glasses-free smartphones and tablets in consumers' hands worldwide, and help enable a mobile platform for 3D video, games, applications, interface and user-generated content.

World's first complete broadcast production workflow proves a winner

Quantel's Enterprise sQ Stereo3D broadcast production technology, first shown at NAB this year, made its in-service debut at the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games in November, successfully providing daily Stereo3D TV programming to China's first 3D TV audience.

Peter Jackson's two film adaptation of The Hobbit will be shot in 3D using RED DIGITAL CINEMA'S soon to be released EPIC Digital Cameras.

The successor to RED's industry changing RED ONE, the EPIC has 5K resolution, can shoot up to 120 frames per second and has a new HDRx™ mode for the highest dynamic range of any digital cinema camera ever made. Taking everything they had learned from building their first camera, RED designed the EPIC from scratch and have produced a smaller, lighter camera that is an order of magnitude more powerful.

LC-Tec Displays AB (LC-Tec) and Seiko Instruments Inc. (SII) have signed a LETTER OF INTENT (LOI) to do joint development of high-speed liquid crystal device for stereoscopic 3D applications. LC-Tec's fast switching technology and SII’s production strengths are combined to develop this technology. Potential applications include shutter lenses in active 3D glasses and screen-sized polarization modulators to be placed in front of a display entailing the use of passive 3D glasses.

Majestic 7 Media Partners, Ltd. announced today Anomaly, the world’s first 3D television program to focus on the paranormal and unexplained.

Anomaly uses never-before-seen 3D night vision cameras and new production techniques to immerse viewers in the world’s most unusual and frightening locations. The show’s 1-hour docu-reality format is fast-paced and entertaining.

Anomaly isn’t your average “things-that-go-bump” paranormal show, however. The show’s host and lead investigator, Jack Kassewitz, brings the same scientific determination that he has demonstrated in his seminal research in human-dolphin communication.