three d. no need to worry about the glasses for 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 quitman 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. films with dozens of new releases in practically every genre screaming at an increasingly large number of three d. . the tsunami was undoubtedly to smash it success of james cameron's epic side. which opened in december two thousand and. ten and has 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 a humanoid species with its home planet and native tongue but also an 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 vision. footsteps the russian spoof series the very best movie is already hard at work to make his 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. seventy stood the test against many of the other three d. shooting solutions. from the current craze.

three d. cinema started some seven 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 tell cinnamon photo research institute this is the system is called stereo because we should move. to film. to friends in the film corresponding to the lift and. 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 a boom 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 end of glyph idea was fashionable at the new york conference of the society of motion picture and television engineers recently heard the cinema photo research institutes director. of defend the 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 the stereo lenses would will this be the traditional screen behind the stereo seventy system absolutely we use the same theoretical basis that was developed by soviet specialists. from the photo research institute at 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 noting. that. we had to upgrade the front part of the camera in a number of ways so if we designed a special carrier with the 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 on the right. it's an upgrade that wouldn't be possible without the work of. it's a st petersburg based optics firm 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 left. under the camera's sensor. shifted from field to digital technology so to keep up with the times we had to

design. doing so we relied on the achievements of the stereo system. we've been able to improve certain properties of such a resolution. in these lenses and to be used with digital camera. making optics to suit disk i standards of the international film making 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 . kingdom of heaven. and of digital h.d.

and anamorphic lenses as well as a unique inverted perspective 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 d. show. to use the technology of one camera. one film. for commercial application but. size would be no lists of the seventy millimeter film. so it's crucial that produces a digital camera as would listen to us putting out devices format senses. then it would be easy to do way with the complicated. camera system employing semi transparent mirrors and other tricks. and use just one. one sensor and one camera.

it was that ease of operation that the makers of brushing how many 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 cost serious money medium specific concerns like placing and maintaining subjects in proper depth for three d. shooting. so time saving but top quality solutions are an invaluable tool for a major production team. one camera system gives you speech going for a change of lenses for. you usually it takes about fifteen minutes to swap. when we have the two frames. and the same. question is in the post production.

system. using here it's a very unique thing. has been 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 that your health you're going to have to knock out walls for the stereo protectors and you could throw your back lugging in the pokey 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 use of 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 like to viewing angle restrictions of their predecessors. stereoscopic displays use multiple viewing angles to give images without any glasses these displays need more than two viewpoints provided by either real or simulated cameras three d. content bases rapidly expanding package sources include computer games blu ray discs and just emerging releases for video gaming console so on the broadcast side can see fresh three d. material through ip t.v. linkups satellite dishes and internet t.v.

. often 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. on 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 vertical 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 medieval processing power enables them to run complex game applications alongside three d. drivers. on the market. in terms of blah form in terms of operational version of. 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. meaning for now the three d. gaming market is largely driven by a trio of. those and this is the big. moment right now. which is hard. to see him selling assembly plant in russia's kaluga region people seem convinced customers will have plenty to watch in three d. and they've got company with competitors like l.g. philips sunni and panasonic all through 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 suddenly their product goes well beyond your average grandmas 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 hot ticket electronics the t.v.'s will drain your wallet for some three thousand dollars. while big players like samsung bet heavy on the hardware russian company era t.v. has some helpful solutions that 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. 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 tell the 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 they're real b.b. is called vin terra and the internet t.v. network and receiver just might be the 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. for each of the two images both in h.d. quality and its life transmission. requires more resources to implement it is exactly what you can see on the screen even at the moment. unlike satellite providers reliant on the clunky dish t.v. providers that have to drag their fat cable to 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. the way it's a great device good so far it's not capable performance wise of simple taney asleep

providing connection to the web you will run 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 the 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 and other site these guys rigorously test the codex to fix that for us with more and more video content flying around the web every day and quality expectation 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 that'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 took a lot of time and we can't afford such a 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 on standard 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 solutions. 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 semiautomatic tool to edit the depth map on selected frames and propagate results from with. to that step and the amount of money needed to price at the scene would be trussed 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 the tools and a lot of hand work. you would take several days to process the show. when you got the pair of stereo images grating the depth. you would usually need to

apply the changes to the frames that come before and after the one you've just corrected. that 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 very helpful to the construction of blondes but 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 to do three wheels unable to process the three d. originally captured on stereoscopic cameras but even then the final corrections we often have to adjust the 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. 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 in or. 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 filmmakers

around the world are discovering three d. shooting is essentially a new skill which directors and cameramen 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 viewing 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 die gear so your product or message has to jump out on its own. we believe in this technology because we think that glasses are a barrier 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 is

we should be able to enjoy stereo images free from glasses and not only in 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. keep. still the technicians from the cinema photo research institute work making glasses free three d. film projection of 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. joint rectangular modules more can be added to make this 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 any. green. this is only a project so it is big and. seventy and. we need approximately three years to streamline the technique i'm struck up enough. the usual three to two cameras only system requires. congress. to provide content for their system to 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 day. there will be a technology that would enable us to produce and view holographic images. that would be in this world's 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 that 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 stripped 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. close to being to the cascine region of the wilderness of the great outdoors a from the bench. now watty goes to central russia

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