dr 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. film 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. avatar which opened in december two thousand and. ten and has been 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 own plan in a native tongue but essential 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 in business. footsteps the russian spoof series the very best movie is already hard at work to make russia's first three d. comedy sunni's monumental pictures will actually be the first of many unique stereo camera system pioneered right here in russia. according to the team. seventy stood the test against many of the other three d. shooting solutions. from the current craze. to. three d. cinema started some seven decades before avatar. well 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 a 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 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 end of glyph 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 has 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 steam behind a stereo seventy system absolutely we use the same theoretical basis that was developed by soviet specialists. from the photo research institute but just what 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 that 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 on the right. 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 to optical blocks mounted side by side on a single plane and in distance similar to that of the human. channeling right. under the camera's sensor. shifted from film 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 as resolution. these lenses and to be used with digital camera. making optics to suit disk i have 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 it's 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 on the set of blockbusters like the recent release. kingdom of heaven. of digital h.d. and anamorphic lenses as well as

a unique inverted perspective lens that flips conventional on its head it's little wonder they answered the call to update the stereo seventy with a digital ready lens for three. use the technology of one camera. one film. for commercial application but we need a sense. of the seventy millimeter film. so it's crucial that produces a digital cameras would listen to us putting out devices. then it would be easy to do away with the complicated. camera system. and other tricks. and use just one. one sensor and one camera. it was that ease of operation that the makers of rushing 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 costs serious money medium specific concerns like placing and maintaining subject to 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 this.

thing here is a very unique thing. developed in russia. even. if. so a great achievement while 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 because recreate the experience that your health didn't have to knock out walls for the stereo projectors and you could throw your back lugging in the pokey reels from your car fortunately the three d. craze this coming to 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 audio 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 degree the effect. but increasingly common are so-called shorter active 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 live viewing angle restrictions to 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 six hundred broadcast side can see fresh three d. material through ip t.v. link ups satellite dishes and internet t.v. . in 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 consists of two overlaid l.c.d. panels doubling the number of pixels a 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 for middle processing power enables them to run complex game applications alongside three d. drivers. on the market. in terms of block 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. and once its customers loyal to their products the only other universal driver is made by the australian company. meaning for gaming market is largely driven by a trio of. those the big. three. you know it's hard. to see him some assembly plant in russia's kaluga region people seem convinced customers will have plenty to watch in three d. in the company with competitors like l.g. philips zuni 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 grandma to the forty six inch flat screen displays put out two hundred hertz have four h.d.m.i. inputs for various compact. 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 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 and

providing all kinds of video and television related equipment and services. 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 video conference. all wrapped up conveniently pretty cool but they're real baby is called vin terra and the t.v. network in receiver they just might be to future of how we get our television fix. so what is it it's unique about your system. is in transmitting three d. content via the internet as with the t.v. . here we have two images side by side the three d.s. . megabits per second. for each of the two images both in h.d.

quality. transmission. requires more resources to implement it exactly what you can see on the screen even at the moment. unlike satellite providers relying 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 days and the other is internet t.v. it's a great device so good so far it's not capable performance wise of simple taney asleep providing connection to the web you won 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 sites these guys rigorously test the codecs to fix the floods 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 code 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 t.v. movie trailer into three d. format. we had only standard tools for that purpose it required a lot of manual operation and took a lot of time that 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 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 also magic tool doesn't give you sufficient results you can

use the semi automatic tool to edit the depth map on selected frames and propagate results. to that step and the amount of money needed to process 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 and. 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. if 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. construction of blonds 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 three wheels unable to process the three d. originally captured on stereoscopic cameras but even then during 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 team 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 only multiply they're 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 glasses free three d. is the real wave of the future the first front in the invasion of auto stereoscopic or glasses free displays is advertising unless 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. with well we believe in this technology because we think that glasses are a barrier for human life 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 no honey and

advertising projects. on the 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 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. 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 is designed to 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 two cameras are. required. 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 day. there will be a technology that would enable us to produce and view holographic images. that would be in this world real three dimensional movie experience. to do. the whole world is playing with different ways of transforming flat images into three d. the problem graphs of come a long way since the first film clips debuted in the soviet union over thirty years ago sixty researchers are now experimented with up to sixty four camera

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. the state has provided citizens with. rights and. the sound of my.

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reaches a second record high in a week. live from our studios here in central moscow this is twenty four hours a day good to have you with us a russian investigation into the sinking of a south korean warship in march has revealed it wasn't carried out by north korea as previously believed well that's according to a south korean newspaper moscow's probe contradicts the u.s. and south korea which place to place. the new reports which russia has not confirmed says the vessel hit a mine north korea maintains it had nothing to do with the incident foreign policy analyst stephen gallons told me earlier that the results of the international reports. there's a large opposition within south korea to the idea that in fact north korea is responsible for the sinking of the ship the lead government is.