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Vision Media Management and 3D specialist Volfoni Announce Partnership to Clean and Recycle 3D Glasses

by Tom Allen

Vision Media Management (VMM) and 3D specialist Volfoni today announced they have partnered in a 3D glasses recycling program that will continue to serve a “green” initiative and remain environmentally conscious. Using its SmartCrystal™ …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Glass| Recycling

Volfoni and VMM Recycle 3D Glasses

by Tom Allen

Volfoni and Vision Media Management (VMM) are working together on a programme to recycle 3D glasses. VMM distributed Volfoni’s passive 3D glasses and ships recycling bins to cinemas across North America. The glasses are …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Environment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 17

MEMS Scanning Key to ‘Deep’ Glasses-Free 3D

by Tom Allen

A new autostereoscopic (glasses-free) 3D display system is being developed at Beijing’s Tsinghua University, aiming to overcome the drawbacks of existing AS3D displays. Glasses-free 3D today, using lenticular lenses, optical gratings or micro-lens arrays, …

Means Under Development to Allow use of a Cellphone for 3D Modeling

by Arthur Berman

Simon Lucey, an Associate Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) along with colleagues Surya Singh and Kit Hamm of the University of Queensland are developing a technology that …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| 3D Content Creation| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 15

Panasonic to Light up People’s Palace at Prolight+Sound

by Vanessa Browning

Panasonic will present a 3D video mapping, on a scale model of the Bucharest Palace of Parliament, at Prolight + Sound 2015 in Frankfurt. Using the newly launched DZ21K Evo series, the successor to …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Mapping & Cartography| Panasonic| Projectors

Microspherical Lenses Bypass 3D Angle Issues

by Tom Allen

Glasses-free 3D is seen as the ‘holy grail’ of 3D display. The technology has several drawbacks, such as viewing ‘sweet spots’, but a team of researchers at Chengdu Technological University and Sichuan University are …

A Study of Distance Estimation in Augmented Reality Display Systems

by Arthur Berman

A recent article reports the results of a study to determine the ability of users to estimate distances between real and virtual objects presented by an augmented reality display system. To put this study …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 10

No 3D on UltraHD Blu-ray?

by Tom Allen

An UltraHD Blu-ray standard is under development, we heard last month (4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Specs are Great but is it too Late?, Display Monitor Vol 22 No 4), but some have suggested that …

Toshiba Shows Glasses-Free 3D Display at CES 2015

by Chris Chinnock

Toshiba Corporation used CES 2015 to showcase a new glasses-free 3D 15.4” 4K resolution display. By using a GRIN (GRadient INdex) lens, Toshiba was able to achieve very low cross-talk between the left and …

Skymedia to Launch Glasses-free UHD 3DTV using Dimenco Technology

by Chris Chinnock

Glasses-free 3D technology developer Dimenco was at CES, but we did not get a chance to meet with them. The company has just signed a technology license agreement with Skymedia, the third largest TV manufacturer in Korea, …

What’s your raison d’être?

by Bob Raikes

Does your company manufacture displays, projectors, or enabling technologies? Does your group produce, curate, or distribute content? Does your team provide distribution, sales, integration, or support services for the display industry? If so, this …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Education| Large Display Monitor| Opinion| Vol 21 - Issue 50

STEM and 3D

by Helen Vince

3D in Education – 3D continues to be a topic of interest at national and regional STEM conferences. (STEM is an acronym for [applied] science, technology, engineering and math.) On that note, I recently attended the …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Education| Vol 21 - Issue 49