to smash it success of james cameron's epic side fi flick avatar which opened in december two thousand and. ten it is the number one grossing film of all time with over two billion bucks in 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 soviet stereo seventy stood the test against many of the other three d.

shooting solutions that are emerging from the current craze. to make some negotiations with. united states. finally. to use the digital camera with. three d. cinema started some seven decades before avatar special theatres 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 moscow cinema in photo research institute this is the system is called stereo because we should move . to friends in the film corresponding to the lift and run. this side by side capture of the stereo pair images made for really. 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. defending 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. film. how do you plan to calculate the parameters the stereo lenses 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. 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 shot inside that separates the two images coming to the center. this is part of the camera yes part of the camera such a serious stuff 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 in just in similar to that of the human. channeling right. under the camera's sensor. industry has shifted from field to digital technology so to keep up with the times we had to design you. doing so we relied on the achievements. system. we've been able to improve certain properties of such as resolution. is 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 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 star wars release and kingdom of heaven. of digital h.d. and anamorphic lenses as well as a unique inverted perspective that flips conventional 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 a commercial application but we need a sensor whose size would be known that of the seventy millimeter film.

so it's crucial that produces a digital cameras would listen to us and stop putting out devices with format senses. then it would be easy to do away with the complicated greig's camera system are 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 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 amplify the issue so time saving but top quality solutions are an invaluable tool for a major production team. use a different. one camera system gives you speech going for

a change of lenses for. you to do usually it takes about fifteen minutes to swap. when we have the two frames. and the same. question is in the post production. of the left and right channel. we are using here it's a very unique thing which 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 because recreate the experience with your health you 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 is coming into our living rooms 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 degree the effect. but increasingly common are so called shutter. 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 life if you will be 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 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 democide up 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. on 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 they're from medieval processing power enables them to run complex

game applications alongside three d. drivers. on the market. which is universal 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 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 kingpin. and. the big. three.

which 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 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 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 tele weapon 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 chat all wrapped up conveniently pretty cool but they're

real b.b.s. called vin terra and t.v. network and receiver they just might be diffused 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 it is the let's turn the t.v. on here we have two images side by side the three d. is essential to speed of four megabits per second of bits for each of the two images both in h.d. quality. transmission. requires more resources but we've managed to implement it in 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 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. there were 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 were one turning it into a three day what the boss the samsung team to upgrade the model and they've promised to do that by think 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. 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 tested 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 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. we have just finished the conversion of a two d. of movie trailer into a three d. format. we had only standard tools for that purpose which required a lot of manual operation and took a lot of time as 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 good quality conversion of the material shot and stand up to the 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 game but if you automatic 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 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 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 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 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 techniques 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 the during the final corrections we often have to adjust the shown. 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 front in the invasion of auto stereoscopic are glasses free displays is 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 classes 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 is we should be able to enjoy stereo images free from glasses and not only in advertising projects. and with 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 he 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 price to diffuse or 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 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 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 camera 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 have come a long way since the first film clips debuted in the soviet union over thirty years ago 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 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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