Last week one of my students, Heather (you can read some of her work there) presented to the group an interesting view on the technologies we are using for 3D. Not sure I should admit this but, it really opened my eyes. Gone were the days of pretending you could see 3D when really it was more effort than it was worth.
She brought in a 3D webcam which is available for under £30 (shown below). This records the images twice and applies the filters to it. It worked really well and I wonder if this might be a way that people might start using the internet. If both people had the 3D cams then it really would be a lot more like the person was actually there. Of course you will both be wearing the dorky glasses which a lot of folks maybe don’t want to do. Headsets have become accepted even if they do still look pretty funny.
Channel 4 did a week of 3D and it was a success, so why can’t we have a channel dedicated to this stuff, they gave out so many pairs of 3D glasses that we need a use for them.
When she was doing her presentation and we were on the webcam I was truly amazed, and with big films like Avatar making 3D happen I wonder how many other films will take the leap. Is this a good thing? Do we want more 3D or are we already past that and not really bothered about 3D technology anymore?
I can’t wait to see what happens in this field.
Hmm where did I put those glasses…