this program as part of our ever onward drive to make the movie going experience more and more lifelike people have been flocking to three dimensional films meanwhile movie makers have been quick to harness the expanding base of technical equipment to make their films stand out on screen and hopefully at the box office as well. two thousand and ten may well be the year of the three d. film with dozens of new releases in practically every genre screaming at an increasingly large number of three d. ready theaters. the tsunami was undoubtedly to smash it success of james cameron's epic side like avatar which opened in december two thousand and. ten it was the number one grossing film of all time with over two billion bucks and box office returns spent a shocking two hundred thirty seven million in creating not only his own humanoid species with his home planet and native tongue but also on essentially building the equipment to film avatar his way from the ground up to even put the script on the

shelf for about a decade to wait for the technology to catch up with his mission. footsteps the russian spoof series the very best movie is already hard at work to make rushes first three d. comedy sunni's monumental pictures will actually be the first to film on a unique stereo camera system pioneered right here in russia. according to the team on the progeny of the celebrated so good stereo seventy stood the test against many of the other three d. shooting solutions. from the current craze. to. digital camera. three d. cinema started some so. in decades before avatar special theater screen russian

three d. films from the one nine hundred forty s. a key breakthrough in stereo cinematography came in one thousand nine hundred sixty three with the stereo seventy camera system designed it must go cinema in photo research institute says the system is called stereo because we should move. to film. two friends in the film corresponding to the lift and run. this side by side capture of the stereo pair images made for relatively easy conversion for three d. theater projection the stereo seventy system was used to film in soviet three d. cinema which was even viewed in some theaters featuring so-called four d. physical effects the shoes may have been a bit gimmicky but at least the an english idea was fashionable the new york conference of the society of motion picture and television engineers recently heard the cinema photo research institutes director. of defend a nearly fifty year old stereo seventy system as more than

a retro relic of the wide format film the cameras used his largely been overtaken by digital he described a future for stereo seventy in the new treaty age future is being hammered out. colleagues at the moscow cinema equipment design bureau who've managed to merge a new generation of stereo seventy lenses to the american made phantom sixty five digital camera for filming in a high quality modern day three d. they say the result is a hybrid that offers an upgrade over the bulky two camera rigs common in today's three d. filming. how do you plan to calculate the parameters of the stereo lenses that would will this be the traditional. seventy system absolutely we use the same theoretical basis that was developed by soviet specialists. from the photo research institute of the configuration of the lens isn't something we're all used to so how do you plan to install it on the phantom sixty five camera which has a classic. we had to upgrade the front part of the camera in

a number of ways so if we designed a special carrier with a jewel shaft inside that separates the two images coming to the center. this is part of the camera yes part of the camera such as serious stuff from the right. it's an upgrade that wouldn't be possible without the work of. it's a st petersburg based optics firm that builds the new generation lens to bring the stereo seventy into the digital age. features two optical blocks mounted side by side on a single plane and interact seal distance similar to that of the human eye. channeling right and. images onto the camera sensor. industry has shifted from film to digital technology so to keep up with the times we had to design new games for stereo. doing so we relied on the

achievements of the stereo system. we've been able to improve certain properties of . resolution. in these lenses and to be used with digital camera. making optics to suit the sky high standards of the international filmmaking market is no small order especially with the burgeoning waves of demand for h.d. in three d. innovations. places itself among just five firms around the world who've really kept up to speed adaptability is a key word in this business as the major players have to be ready to take the know how they've accumulated and apply it to meet specific orders from movie makers. has placed their equipment on the set of blockbusters like the recent star wars release and ridley scott's kingdom of heaven. and of digital h.d.

indiana morphic lenses as well as a unique inverted perspective lens that flips conventional film geometry on its head it's little wonder they answered the call to update the stereo seventy with a digital ready lens for three. to use the technology of one camera. one film. would be no. seventy millimeter film. so it's crucial that produces a digital camera as would listen to us putting out devices. then it would be easy to do away with the complicated. camera system. other tricks. and use just one. one sensor and one camera. it was

that ease of operation that the makers of russian comedy the very best movie three d. were looking for when they chose the updated stereo seventy each shot of every high budget modern day movie takes time and of course time costs serious money medium specific concerns like placing and maintaining subjects in proper depth for three d. shooting. time saving but top quality solutions are an invaluable tool for a major production team. one camera system gives you speech. to change lenses. usually it takes about fifteen minutes to swap. the two frames. and the same. question.

it's a very unique thing. developed in russia. even. if . so a great achievement no new three d. releases may be hoping for an oscar nod of their own even the cinemas are taking some time to adapt to the three d. boom operators for the coveted imax format say they're still ordering some pictures on traditional film while digital quality lags in may be in high demand but the whole cycle is very much a work in progress three d. may look better than ever before in the theater but to recreate the experience with your health you're going to have to knock out walls for the stereo projectors and you could throw your back lugging in the faulty reels from your car fortunately the three d. craze is coming into our living room with slightly different technology. three d. displays are now available in increasing numbers the most common models require special glasses combining two viewing angles one for each eye some used glasses

much like those in the theater a cheaper simpler polarized model with filter lenses ensuring each eye sees the appropriate angle to create a three d. effect. but increasingly common are so called shutter glasses which flicker rapidly from the right to left eye view these classes are more costly and require at least a one hundred twenty hertz display but lived if you want to go restrictions to their predecessors. stereoscopic displays use multiple viewing angles to give images without any glasses displease need more than two viewpoints provided by either real or simulated cameras the three d. content bases rapidly expanding package sources include computer games blu ray discs and just emerging releases for video gaming console six hundred broadcast side can see fresh three d. material through ip t.v. link ups satellite dishes and internet t.v. . good team assad and his company easy three d. the first wave of the three d.

content computer gaming after patenting and trying to sell an auto stereoscopic monitor about a decade ago easy three d. has since returned to the glasses. gaming world with good results their new display consists of two overlaid l.c.d. panels doubling the number of pixels the diffuser widens the to viewing angle allowing users to play with cheaper polarized glasses without losing quality computers were an ideal medium for three d. development since they're from it will processing power enables them to run complex game applications alongside three d. drivers. on the market. in terms of terms of operations who are. different devices. but of course. that's because invidia is locked in competition with the other

dominant video card provider a.m.d. and once its customers staying loyal to their products the only other universal driver is made by the australian company. meeting for the three d. gaming market is largely driven by a trio of king pins. and. those the big. moments. of. which you know it's hard. to see him some assembly plant in russia region people seem convinced customers will have plenty to watch in three d. and they've got company with competitors like l.g. phillips panasonic all through it and their chips factory was set up just two years ago producing l.c.d. screens and is quickly been adapted to meet what samsung says is a growing demand for three home entertainment systems in russia and other c.i.s.

countries certainly their product goes well beyond your average grandma to the forty six inch flat screen displays put out two hundred hertz have four h.d.m.i. inputs for various compounds. devices like blu ray players two u.s.b. ports to share your friend's flicks access to a new web based service called internet t.v. and of course the shutter glasses to make it all jump off the wall to cope with content questions they've installed a converter that they say can turn two d. images into three d. in real time promising an experience unparalleled even by h.d. when it comes to watching your favorite football match or formula one race as with all new high ticket electronics the t.v.'s will drain your wallet for some three thousand dollars. while big players like samsung but heavy on the hardware russian company area t.v. has some helpful solutions they will offer you more to watch once you've broken the bank for your three d. set. the company has made its name over nearly two decades of producing in

providing all kinds of video and television related equipment and services these days they're largely focusing on internet based methods of content delivery. area t.v. is busy integrating familiar technology into new systems to help broaden our horizons in the world of streaming video here i can host a so-called hello web in our with technology updates editor alexandre shane along with anybody else who's lucky enough to tune in through the internet it's part newscast part video conference part chat all wrapped up conveniently pretty cool but their real baby is called vin terra and the internet t.v. network and receiver they just might be to future of how we get our television fix . so what is it it's unique about your system and. we'll play in the is in transmitting three d. content via the internet as with it is the let's turn the t.v. on here we have two images side by side in the three d.

is a sense of the speed of four megabits per second. it's for each of the two images both in h.d. quality and its life transmission. and requires more resources to implement it in exactly what you can see on the screen in that the moment. unlike satellite providers rely on the clunky dish t.v. providers that have to drag their fat cable be your home. and other internet t.v. services used already well established global internet infrastructure and give users far more flexibility to tailor their content to their wishes with channels of all types from all over the world. samsung television set has two different functions. one is three data and the other is internet t.v. there were it's a great device so good so far it's not capable performance wise of simple taney asli providing connection to the web you one turning it into

a three day we've lost the samsung team to upgrade the model and they've promised to do that by then he is end it with theirs but so far it can do both new. era t.v. envisions integrating their product with the televisions themselves but for now the box may be the best way to collect the amazing video resources of the internet including three d. google has announced its google t.v. feature with something like this will come out around september or october meanwhile here we're already right now up and running you'll only need our receiver it works just fine wherever in the us in any part of the world everything you can see here plus it has three d. . three three d. content is going to require picture quality even better than what we now know with h.d. and a video group at moscow state university knows the value of a clear image when streaming video comes through distorted for most of us we either

bite the bullet or click in other sites these guys rigorously test the codex to fix the floods with more and more video content flying around the web every day and quality expectations steadily on the rise these folks seem to really have their hands full when i tried my hand on their carefully calculated software for codec testing i was surprised by the stark contrast between good and bad pictures but also by how automated fixes for these problems have become its own process of image optimization it's bringing us ever closer to the action we see simulated on screen and the moscow state university team is making the logical leap forward in that process into the world of three d. video. they're consulting united multimedia projects a russian movie production firm based out of the famous gorky film studio in moscow and how to get into the three d. game on

a reasonable timeframe in budget. control we have just finished the conversion of a two d. of movie trailer into three d. format. we had only standard tools for that purpose which required a lot of manual operation and took a lot of time and we can't afford such laborious stage in post-production. so we're now looking for a semi automatic ribbon fully automatic way to make a quality conversion of the material shot and stand up to the cameras. to film in question is who am i a mysterious thriller featuring some of the biggest stars of the russian screen but that doesn't mean the money and patience for the conversion is endless. we can offer you several solution. in the best case scenario if the camera pans in parallel with the motion algorithm can reconstruct the depth of mass acclaim and able to go but if you automatic tool doesn't give you sufficient results you can

use the semi automatic tool to edit the depth on selected frames and propagate results. to that step and the amount of money needed to price at the scene would be trust to be reduced. if you. take this tight shot of a bullet casing flying over a keyboard a major company propagates manual depp's maps from earlier frames but loses the foreground object and leaves a distorted trail on the keyboard and gave propagation algorithm does the same thing only better without blind spots the best result is a fully automatic model based on the casings motion. you say it's a matter of just a few minutes it's astonishing how the tools and a lot of hand work. and you would take several days to process the show. when you got the pair of stereo images grading the depth. you would usually need to apply the changes to the frames that come before and after the one you've just

corrected. at we can do. that also when generation the final stereo thought that we need to solve quite a complicated mess. that is to reconstruct the background behind a character that's close to the camera we can do that using the preceding and following frames. this is a very helpful to reconstruction of blind spots one of the challenges we are facing at the moment using our current take me it takes so much to generate the camera missed. just crucial not only the conversion. of three wheels unable to process the three d. originally captured on stereoscopic cameras but even then the final corrections we often have to adjust to show. that's when we need to remodel the areas not caught

on camera because of the objects in the ground. so the package of tools you can offer will be a real blessing for us in reconstructing the blind spots. rumor has it famous filmmaker team or best bet of production the whims starring in her first russian language turn may be looking to add an extra dimension to their project so u.m.p. has good reason to be excited about improving their technical capacity for now the focus is honing their skills on the software moscow state university steam is provided them regardless of how any individual contract works out they see every reason to believe the number of three d. conversion in production projects crossing their plate will only multiply their learning that each different type of scene shot into. converted to three d. may require a unique post-production approach to render it watchable come the day of the premiere in the future they have plans to acquire their own three d. camera equipment to handle the entire process from start to finish. as film makers

around the world are discovering three d. shooting is essentially a new skill which directors and chairmen in particular will need to train to acquire if they want to cash in on the rush to three d. theaters. there's no problem doing three d. content with glasses if the movie theater provides them or they come with their home display but that largely leaves out the man on the street for that purpose glass is free three d. is the real wave of the future the first front in the invasion of auto stereoscopic are glasses free displays is advertising endless they've just stolen them from the theater potential buyers aren't walking past your ad with polarized di gear so your product or message has to jump out on its own. with well we believe in this technology because we think that glasses are beriah for human. three d. is something that we see right now all around us and it's comfortable to view the world without the glasses. and it's inexpensive technique. within two or three

years we should be able to enjoy stereo images free from glasses and not only an advertising projects. but i will have documentaries t.v. programs for the next two or three is the t.v. industry will throw its weight behind the glasses on gadgets. that it would. still do technicians from the cinema photo research institute work making glasses free three d. film projection a viable reality in this prototype they pointed for digital projectors that especially built rear projection screen priced of a diffuser and a lenticular raster to focus the image properly the raster is dipped in a glycerine solution in this case the rest. rectangular modules more could be added to make the screen virtually any size without any irritating grid lines between sections in older versions viewers had to sit still while this prototype

lets you sit comfortably at a distance of roughly four meters what you're seeing is actually a compilation of twelve different viewpoints instead of two international three d. . phillips has designed a forty six inch model to view three d. without. green. this is only a project so it is big and. seventy and. we need approximately three years to streamline the technique and stock up enough. the usual three to. provide content for their system they use their own in-house camera adaptation essentially twelve sony digital cameras welded in wired together. the models were chosen to give the smallest possible distance between shooting angles meanwhile

they've developed computer software to help them process and synchronize all twelve channels generated by the cameras and split the resulting images between their four projectors properly setting the scene to portray a realistic image from this many angles isn't something many cameramen are experienced with the institute hopes that interest in three d. since avatar will draw attention to the need for this kind of training. is going to be the next. they'll be able. to produce and view holographic images. that would be. real three dimensional movie experience. to do. the whole world is playing with different ways of transforming flat images into three d. telegraphs of come a long way since the first film clips debuted in the soviet union over thirty years ago this researchers are now experimented with up to sixty four cameras

stereoscopic systems and projector walls with dozens of viewpoints on dynamic real time scenes this could all be one big budget script away from the cinema tonight. the pursuit of the real is a never ending obsession in the entertainment industry and before long even three d. will seem old hat but just remember the three dimensional world is all around us just keep your eyes open and enjoy the ride.

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