and box office returns cameron 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 a business like. cameron's footsteps the russian spoof series the very best movie is already hard at work to make their third film russia's 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. and in snuff for lacking other options according to the team on the adapted progeny of the long celebrated so good stereo seventy stood the test against many of the other three d. shooting solutions that are emerging from the current craze. testing negotiations with two cameras. united.

finally. to use the digital camera with. 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 eighty three with the stereo seventy camera system designed it must go cinema in 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 ne 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 his largely been overtaken by digital he described a future for stereo seventy in the new treaty age future is being hammered. 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. film. 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 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 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 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 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. doing so we rely on the achievements. we've been able to improve certain properties of such as resolution. in these lenses and to be used with digital camera. making optics to suit the sky high 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 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 in a morphic 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. use the technology of one camera. one film. but we need a sense. of the seventy millimeter film. so it's crucial produces a digital cameras would listen to us putting out devices. then

it would be easy to do away with the complicated. camera system employing. 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 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 a speech. usually it takes about fifteen minutes to swap.

the two frames. and this. thing here is a very unique thing which has developed in russia. even. before. 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 are 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 plugging 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 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 live to 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 the three d. content base is 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. . democide 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. gaming world with good results their new display 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 their processing power enables them to run complex game applications alongside three d. drivers. on the market. in terms of

terms of operational. devices. because invidia is locked in competition with the other dominant video card provider. 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 kingpin. the big. moment. which is. simply playing in russia region people seem convinced customers will have plenty to watch in three d. and they've done companies with competitors like l.g.

philips panasonic all through it and their chips factory was set up just two years ago producing l.c.d. screens and it's 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 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 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 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. 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 alexander shane along with anybody else who's lucky enough to tune in through the internet it's part newscast video conference chat all wrapped up conveniently pretty cool but they're real baby is called vin terra and the internet t.v. network and receiver they just might be the 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. and requires more resources to implement it is exactly what you can see on the screen even that the long. 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.

the way 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 what we've lost the samsung team to upgrade the model and they've promised to do that by think is end even if there's a sofa 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. in 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 or click another 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 coding 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 time frame 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 good quality conversion of the material shot on standard cameras. to film in question is who am i the 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 the mass acclaim and go but if you automatic tool doesn't give you sufficient results you can use the semiautomatics tool to edit the depth on selected frames and propagate results from with the scuffle 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 how 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. when generating 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 blunt's one of the challenges we are facing at the moment using our current techniques 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. 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 they see every reason to believe the number of three d. conversion in production projects crossing their plate 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 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 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 glasses free three d. is the real wave of the future the first firm in the invasion of auto stereoscopic or glasses free display advertising and listening 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 beriah for human. is something that we

see right now all around us and it's comfortable to view the world without the glasses. and see an expensive 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. that he 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 to 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 continent . the usual three to two cameras are only. 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's real three dimensional movie experience.

to do. if you do the whole world is playing with different ways of transforming flat images into three d. telegraphs have 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 goodnight . 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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leaves thousands of people homeless the central russia something as its worst heat wave in over one hundred years. talks to count on water supplies in russia's far east are on the ground as chinese authorities struggle to stop sponsons of chemical waste barrels lost in the flooded river from reaching russia. the studio sorceries battle and you know it's a protest that is but a lot of forward soldiers who fought with the nazis to get to the core of commemoration in the country. news from russia under around the world this is all see with me you lash out thanks for joining us a searing heat wave they worst in one hundred thirty years is devastating in central russia at least twenty eight people have been killed in forest fires as thousands have been left homeless residents have been forced to flee their homes as

the blaze continued in tire and consumed entire villages the russian emergencies ministry says the situation is under control but firefighters are still struggling to contain the flames sound fast reports now from the veronese region one of the worst hit areas. well in brightness they've made managing to get the situation under control of the last few days has seen a huge amount of destruction caused by these by as we've visited the town of muscle of coaches one of the worst hit in the area is some of the people who are living that find out how they were taping with the situation they could only watch hopelessly at the fire school in the way one person's along with this is a village of miles love about fifteen minutes from british defense and one of the places was affected by the fires that have left many of the homes here completely destroyed. the fire wasted no time flames leaping.