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Sky Deutschland to Stop 3D channel

by Bob Raikes

Sky Deutschland has said that it will shut down its 3D channel in mid-2017 as consumers are more interested in UltraHD. Sky in the UK has already closed down its 3D channel.

Learning from Successful Educational Projects

by Len Scrogan

In an article published earlier this month (A 3D Success Story: The Wilson County Schools), I highlighted the efforts of the Wilson County Schools, a mid-sized district in Tennessee that was honored with one …

Looking Glass Offers a Volumetric Display for the Consumer

by Norbert Hildebrand

As reported by CNBC and others, a Brooklyn, New York, based start-up called Looking Glass Factory s offering a volumetric display for the consumer. The display is called Volume and is a cube made …

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Fraunhofer Developing a 3D Body-Capture Camera System

by Arthur Berman

At recent trade fairs IFA in Berlin and IBC in Amsterdam, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute (Berlin, Germany) showed a new technology that they call “3D Human Body Reconstruction.” …

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3D @ ISTE 2016

by Len Scrogan

Some pundits feel that 3D in education has peaked. But it didn’t seem that way at all at ISTE 2016, where 3D technologies evidenced their strongest and most mature presence in the history of …

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Actions Designs for Personal 3D HMDs

by Tom Allen

Actions Semiconductor, of China, has released a chipset called the V100 for personal 3D cinema headsets. It is an all-in-one chip, featuring a MIPS32 processor, an integrated video engine, display subsystem and audio engine. …

Beyond Festival Focuses on Future Design

by Isaac Oburu

2016’s 3D Beyond Festival will be held on the 28th Sept – 2nd Oct 2016 in Karlsruhe, Germany. This year’s theme will be “Future Design Thinking”.

ISTE 2016 Conference Roundup

by Len Scrogan

The ISTE 2016 educational conference held in late June, with over 16,000 in attendance hailing from 76 countries, is the largest ed-tech conference held in the U.S. This year’s ed-tech extravaganza left me dizzy …

Harrison Shatters Some CES Illusions

by Tom Allen

Mark Harrison is MD of Digital Production Partnerships. He has covered CES as a journalist for many years, and shared his observations about the trends that have come, gone and are rising at the …

Education Market Perspectives: InfoComm 2016

by Len Scrogan

I’ve been an educational technology director for 25 years, with a significant track record in large educational technology and AV purchases. I just returned from walking every aisle of InfoComm 2016, searching for promising …

DS20 Li Solves the Problem with 3D

by Bob Raikes

Chao Li has a research centre for 3D in China which is focused on 3D with LEDs. He has looked at the human factors in detail. To start, Li asked three questions: Why does …

Latest Research Suggests 3D can Enhance the Learning Process

by Arthur Berman

The amount of knowledge is growing at an ever increasing rate. It follows that the amount of information and understanding that a person needs to live and work effectively is growing at a correspondingly …

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