thirty seven million in creating not only his own humanoid species with his home planet a 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 to business. 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 snuffer 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. testing negotiations with two cameras. from united states.

finally there is a possibility 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 a 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. two friends in the film corresponding to the lift and ride. 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 an igloo. i was passionate 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 first seventy in the new three d. age future is being hammered. colleagues at the moscow cinema equipment designed who've managed to merge a new generation of stereo seventy lenses to the american made phantom sixty five digital camera for filming in 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 to 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 at the

configuration of the. 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 the jewel shaft inside that separates the two images coming to the. this is part of the camera yes part of the camera such as serious stuff on the right. 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 distance similar to that of the human eye. channeling right and. images under the camera sensor.

industry has shifted from field to digital technology so to keep up with the times we. are doing so we rely on the achievements. system. we've been able to improve certain properties of such as resolution. lenses and to be used with digital camera. making optics to suit disguise 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. to

his place on the set of blockbusters like the recent release. kingdom of heaven. of digital h.d. and in a morphic lenses as well as the unique inverted perspective lens 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. 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. camera system.

other tricks. and use just one. one sensor and one camera. it was that ease of operation that the makers of rushing 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 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 a speech but. usually it takes about fifteen minutes to swap.

the two frames. and. 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 sigur 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 we're going to have to knock out walls for the stereo projectors and you can grow 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 to viewing angles one for each. so music glasses much like those in the theater cheaper simpler polarized model with filter lenses ensuring each eye sees the appropriate angle to create it 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 the 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 below 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. . would deem 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 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 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. it's hard to predict if the same song is simply planned 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 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 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 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 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. 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 chat all wrapped up conveniently pretty cool but they're real b.b. is called vin terra and 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 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. . here we have two images side by side the three d.s. assented to 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 exactly what you can see on the screen just even at the moment. unlike satellite providers reliant 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.

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're man 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 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 was 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 codex to fix that for us 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 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 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 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 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 process 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 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. but 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 the one you've just corrected . that we can do. but also when generation the final stereo we need to solve quite a complicated. 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 blind spots 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 and 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 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 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 classes 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 class is free three d. is the real wave of the future the first front in the invasion of auto stereoscopic our glasses free display 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 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 years we should be able to enjoy stereo images free from glasses and not honey and 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 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 build 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. from fortune joined rectangular modules

more could 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 two or three years to streamline the technique and stock up enough continent. the usual three to two cameras only system requires. cameras. the more the better. 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 of interest in three d. since avatar will draw attention to the need for this kind of training. three 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. good. if you 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 says the 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 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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u.s. congress approves billions more for the afghan military campaign despite documents put online detailing cover ups of civilian deaths and a fading american war effort. trying to turn the tide water supplies in russia's far east are under threat as hundreds of barrels containing toxic chemicals are still floating down a chinese river towards the country's border. bittersweet celebration the sting is taken out of arizona's tough immigration law just before. the fights not over. the back of the past week's top stories and the latest developments this is in moscow almost a quarter of a million people have been mobilized across russia to tackle wildfires that are reading the country twenty five thousand foreign genes have been deployed at least

thirty people have died in places stoked by the country's most severe heat wave for one hundred thirty years. in the region said to be the worst affected. there are a variety of has been hit very very hot the last couple of days by these fires that we say at the moment the emergency services say the situation head has been gotten under control but what we know is that there's still a huge amounts of fires butting throughout russia and that's really proving a struggle to get under control in the last twenty four hours around one hundred thirty five new fires have broken out in the most gave each and so really a huge huge strain on emergency services and we've had the russian military have been quoted to help get control in those so a huge amount of volunteers have been needed as well now you can actually probably see behind me some of the devastation that this fire has cools this is left thousands of people across russia and we went to meet.