XbitLabs.com reports that a number of consumer electronics giants, including Sony Corp., Samsung Electronics, LG and others have invested heavily into development of current stereo-3D tech as well as 4K ultra-high-definition format. However, Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK, Nippon Hoso Kyokai), the leading developer of 8K format, claims that true three-dimensional pictures require resolutions simply impossible [...]

Gizmodo.com writes: Imagine taking a picture, without a camera. If that sound ridiculous, it’s because it is—but it’s also exactly what a team of researchers from the University of Glasgow, UK, have been doing. This picture wasn’t created using two multi-pixel sensors like most 3D images—but with a technique called ghost imaging, which for the [...]

ExtremeTech.com has an interesting question for you: Where are all the 3D digital cameras and photos? There are 3D TVs, 3D movies, 3D games, 3D printers, Kinect — but, when it comes to 3D still cameras, the market is almost completely barren. Sure, there’s a handful of 3D point-and-shoot cameras, but they’re not exactly flying [...]

Reuters (via the Chicago Tribune) reports from London that “Avatar” director James Cameron and Russian conductor Valery Gergiev will beam the world’s first live 3D ballet broadcast to 50 countries from Russia’s Mariinsky theatre in June. Cinema audiences across Europe, the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and elsewhere will be able to watch Ekaterina [...]

TechRadar.com reports that after James Cameron crammed the spectacular world of Pandora into our eyeballs in 3D with Avatar, Hollywood has been falling over itself making films in three dimensions. The results have been a little hit and miss, with 3D ticket sales plummeting in the US, and pundits like Danny Boyle and Christopher Nolan [...]

The UK’s Daily Mail reports that Hollywood may have embraced the 3D revolution, but film fans seem less enamoured. Ticket sales for the format in the UK have slumped by a third in two years, figures reveal. According to veteran film critic Barry Norman the technology is ‘overblown’ and adds nothing to the cinema-going experience, [...]

kotaku.com has this story from George Kokoris: I cried the first time I held a Nintendo 3DS. The experience was a revelation that I’ll not soon forget, and even if everyone stopped making games for it tomorrow, my blue 3DS XL is not going anywhere. That little machine is a window into a part of [...]

From Sterocopynews.com : “Hear my voice… Alexander Graham Bell.”  said the inventor of the telephone more than a century in front of his cardboard and wax disc voice recorder on 15 April 1885 in Washington DC, USA. More than one century later, the badly damaged disc is unable to withstand a reading needle to play [...]

Telegram.com wondered why people buy 3D TVs when there’s hardly any programming for them. But a reader told us they have better pictures. We looked into that and discovered that it’s true for monster-sized TVs — 46 inches and above. Why is that? The image demands of 3D are much greater and it takes more [...]

Austrilia’s TheAge.co.au reports that those who loathe 3D films – and there are many – will have taken great heart from news last week that the sector was expected to decline this year, for the first time since 2009. ”The initial excitement has dwindled,” a market analysis from ratings agency Fitch noted. ”Consumers are focused [...]

CBC News reports that a Canadian-led study has found that playing video games with both eyes can dramatically improve vision in adults with lazy eye — a condition thought to be all but untreatable in adults. Lazy eye, known to doctors as amblyopia, is a problem in which a person sees better in one eye [...]

Darren Ruecker is decidedly a 3D optimist. Ultimately, he thinks the format is going to improve in the hands of skilled filmmakers and technicians with able hands and keen eyes and will be as much an institution of the moving image as color is today. If the type of people who currently say 3D is [...]

TFW2005.com reports that Michael Bay has spoken to Collider on an exclusive interview at the Cinemacon regarding various new Technology he will be using for Transformers 4. “Over the last few years, IMAX has been quietly developing a smaller digital camera with amazing resolution. And while that would be great on its own…the new camera [...]

The following Press Release was issued Monday by RealD at CinemaCon: RealD Introduces Precision White Screen Technology Combining 2D White Screen Performance with Polarized 3D Capability Forty Percent More Total Light Than a Standard Silver Screen with More Uniform Brightness in 2D and 3D CINEMACON, LAS VEGAS (APRIL 15, 2013) – RealD Inc. (NYSE: RLD) [...]

NextMovie.com asks: So just what is 4DX exactly? Don’t worry, you don’t need a time machine or hallucinogenic drugs to breach the fourth dimension. Instead, it’s a new immersive movie experience that includes tilting rumble seats, wind and fog machines, an array of scents and odors and even machines that spray water or blow bubbles [...]

Hollywood Reporter reports from NAB that Germany’s research organization Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute is presenting a series of innovative camera developments during the NAB show — including a proof of concept trifocal camera system that the Institute is developing in association with Walt Disney Animation Studios Research and camera maker ARRI. The  camera uses a [...]

IndiaTimes.com reports that Researchers have developed a new laser powered camera system that creates high-resolution 3D images of objects from up to a kilometer away. A standard camera takes flat, 2D pictures. To get 3D information, such as the distance to a far-away object, scientists can bounce a laser beam off the object and measure [...]

3Dfocus.co.uk reports that despite the drop in picture resolution, passive 3D TV technology is proving more popular with manufacturers and demand is growing much faster than active 3D. That is the conclusion of a report from NPD DisplaySearch which says that shipments of 3D patterned retarder optical film for LCD TV are estimated to increase [...]

Hollywoodreporter.com reports that Oscar winner Ang Lee said wannabe 3D Filmmakers should “trust no one” when it comes to 3D movie-making. The Life of Pi director told an audience at the 3D Creative Summit in the British capital via a live link from Fox News Studios in NYC that anyone who claims to know about [...]

HollywoodReporter.com reports that to address complaints that digital 3D can look too dark, digital-cinema insiders have been exploring the potential of laser projection as a way to get more light onto screens. Next week, projector maker Christie’s laser technology will be used to screen Paramount’s March 28 release of G.I. Joe: Retaliation at AMC Theatre’s Burbank [...]

Techradar.com reports that while HBO may be making some of the world’s most cutting-edge television, outgoing CTO Bob Zitter has fired a parting shot at television’s cutting edge technology. Speaking at TV Connect in London, Zitter claimed that 3D TV that used glasses is dead and admitted that he is very sceptical over whether consumers [...]

HollywoodReporter.com reports that the first joint production between the giant screen exhibitor and studio major follows the release of Disney films “Fantasia 2000″ and “Oz The Great and Powerful” in the large format. Imax is going back into space, this time with Walt Disney Studios. Launching its first joint production with Imax, Disney is backing [...]

Nature.com has the following abstract (full article for sale on site): A Multi-Directional Backlight For A Wide-Angle, Glasses-Free Three-Dimensional Display David Fattal, Zhen Peng, Tho Tran, Sonny Vo, Marco Fiorentino, Jim Brug & Raymond G. Beausoleil AffiliationsContributionsCorresponding author Nature 495, 348–351 (21 March 2013) doi:10.1038/nature11972 Received 12 October 2012 Accepted 30 January 2013 Published online [...]

TheJakartaGlobe.com asks: Fancy watching a movie on your mobile phone, where figures leap out from the screen in 3D, rather as Princess Leia did in that scene from “Star Wars”? That’s the claim made by US researchers, who on Wednesday reported they had made a display which gives a three-dimensional image that can be viewed without [...]

StereoscopyNews.com reports that AEE Technology (Xili, China) is launching its SD30 Full HD camcorder on the US market for 500$. Able to sustain harsh conditions and able to div to 60 meters thanks to its waterproof housing, the SD30 fixed interocular action camera is fitted with a pair of 1/3″ 5 Mpixels sensors. Read more (plus [...]

Mashable.com reports that Philips has launched a new line of TVs called DesignLine, and they’re definitely very different from most other TVs on the market. Aiming to create an “object of desire” rather than just another TV, Philips’ designers have created a TV that looks like a seamless sheet of glass with a black gradient. [...]

PCmag.com reports that Nintendo found itself on the losing end of a patent infringement case Wednesday, resulting in a $30 million fine. A federal judge this week ruled that Nintendo’s 3DS video-game system infringed on an inventor’s 3D display technology patent, Reuters reported. That inventor, Seijiro Tomita, was awarded $30.2 million in compensatory damages. The [...]

CNET.com reports that Samsung files a trademark application for “2D 3D Movie & Still,” suggesting its newest smartphone might have such capabilities. 3D hasn’t really taken off in TVs, but Samsung may be inclined to give it a try in the Galaxy S4. The Korean electronics giant has filed for a trademark for “2D 3D [...]

TheAge.com.au reports that Hollywood star Stanley Tucci has confessed he hates working with CGI in movies and finds filming them humiliating, despite starring in the new 3D adventure Jack the Giant Slayer. Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada and The Hunger Games) admitted sitting around in skin-tight suits covered in ping pong balls waiting for the [...]

The following Press Release was issued today by Sony: Sony Digital Cinema today announced it is expanding the choice of 3D technology in European countries by introducing a new 3D offering for the cinema industry. The new solution, now available across Europe, will mean exhibitors can show 3D content on two of Sony DCI-compliant 4K projectors: the SRX-R320SP [...]

HollywoodReporter.com reports that the glasses are officially recommended for viewers over age 6, sparking a probe into a group that last year lowered the minimum age to just 3. Italy’s Ministry of Health has ruled that glasses used to watch 3D films at home should carry a series of health warnings and be limited to [...]

Consumerist.com reports that one consumer has had a Samsung 3D TV for a few years, but didn’t try out the 3D functionality until recently. When he did, he learned that the set didn’t have the full, glorious, 1080-pixel 3D experience that Samsung had advertised when he bought it. He’s not the only one who has [...]

CNET.com reports that subscribers of Google’s Fiber TV service who own a 3D TV and glasses can now opt to watch a couple of new channels in 3D. Announced yesterday, Google has launched 3net and ESPN3D. Subscribers to the Google Fiber Gigabit + TV Plan will automatically receive 3net, which will offer documentaries, kids and [...]

China’s English-language PeopleDaily.com.cn reports that many people attribute the staggering box office of “Journey to the West” to the film’s 3D format screening. But it was not shot using 3D cameras, so some film-goers are calling this kind of film “fake 3D”. Read more at see the video report from CNTV at http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/8158953.html

Advanced-Television.com reports that for years, US consumers have had three simple criteria when buying a television: price, size and picture quality. While those factors remain, American television buyers now are placing increased importance on technology features, including Internet connectivity and 3D display, according to the Smart TV Consumer Survey conducted by the IHS Screen Digest [...]

Display-Central.com reports that one major question of interest to the 3D display community is “Are interactive games better with 3D displays than in 2D displays?”  A study done by Interactive Games Ontario 3D(iGO3D) (Ontario, Canada) sheds light on this issue. iGO3D was founded in 2011 (See November 2011 issue of Mobile Display Report) with the [...]

AfterDawn.com reports that Disney has agreed to a new content licensing agreement with 3D company Sensio Technology for an upcoming VOD TV service The new service is called 3DGO! and will go live later this month. At launch, the service will be limited to 22 Vizio TV models, all of which have 3D and Internet [...]

Sky 3D has been the UK’s only dedicated 3D television channel since its launch in 2010 and TechRadar caught up with Sky 3D head John Cassy as Formula 1 was given the 3D treatment in a one-off experiment. Cassy – a former journalist who previously headed up Sky Arts – talked extensively about the progress [...]

Australia’s Illawarramercury.com.au asks: Imagine if, instead of a cane or a guide dog, the vision impaired could use a 3D camera to help them “see” the world around them. A University of Wollongong researcher Xue Wei is not only imagining that, she’s working on perfecting a 3D assistive navigation system for the vision impaired that would [...]

Hackaday.com posted a story about a camera rig that makes it a snap to produce photorealistic 3D models of an object. It was put together rather inexpensively by an indie game company called Skull Theatre. They published a couple of posts which show off how the rig was built and how it’s used to capture [...]

TechOn.nikkeibp.co.jp reports that Panasonic Corp developed a 2.1-Mpixel CMOS image sensor for camera systems capable of taking 3D movie with a single lens and announced it at ISSCC 2013 (thesis number: 27.8). Traditionally, two lenses and two CMOS sensors are required to take 3D video. But Panasonic enabled to do it with a single lens [...]

Examiner.com (warning–video ad heavy with autoplay) reports that Netflix announced late Thursday the addition of two new features for its service; namely Super HD and 3D. Super HD is essentially content streamed at 1080p, which will require that a user be a part of an eligible ISP (being part of the Open Connect initiative). For [...]

GizMag.com report that Sony has filed a US patent for 3D glasses that can be used with any 3D TV set. The glasses use a variety of downloadable software and interchangeable modules that hold out the promise of cheaper 3D glasses that aren’t tied to a single receiver model. Read more, including a breakdown of [...]

AP reports that Netflix is buffing up its credentials as a popular way for parents to keep their kids entertained. The subscription video provider said Tuesday that it will team up with DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. to create its first original cartoon series for kids. The series will be based on DreamWorks’ upcoming movie, “Turbo,” [...]

The UK’s Guardian reports that the Time Lord’s half-centenary will be celebrated with special screenings in 3D in cinemas and on BBC HD channel. The Time Lord is accustomed to travelling through space and time, but BBC1‘s Doctor Who will have an added dimension for its 50th-anniversary special, which will be filmed in 3D and [...]

StereoscopyNews.com has the story about FXGuide publishing this week an interview of Legend3D founder, chief creative officer and CTO Barry Sandrew about the art behind the 2D-to-Stereoscopic-3D conversion of TOP GUN, the 1986 movie that made Tom Cruise a worldwide star. Read and see the trailer at http://www.stereoscopynews.com/hotnews/3d-technology/2d-to-3d-conversion/2961-2d-to-3d-depth-script-crafted-as-a-musical-score.html

For those into the ultra high-end of consumer/professional electronics, this Press Release from Theta Digital: Montebello, CA February 1, 2013 – The most widely acclaimed manufacturer of high-end audio components, Theta Digital, announced that it is shipping its latest universal disc transport, the Compli Blu 3D. According to Dave Reich, Theta Digital’s chief engineer, the [...]

Engadget.com reports that in a move it’s calling a world’s first, Sky Sports has announced that parts of Formula 1′s final preseason tests from Circuit de Catalunya will be broadcast on its 3D network. While F1 has tested the use of 3D before, it’s never been broadcast and chief Bernie Ecclestone — who you’ll remember [...]

RedOrbit.com reports that 3D technology has come quite a long way since the days of red and blue colored plastic lenses held in paper frames. The 3D seen now in movies and upper-end home theaters, while impressive, falls short when it comes to getting a real time and interactive 3D look at a digital image, [...]

StereoscopyNews.com reports that the Pulfrich effect is a psycho-optical phenomenon that was documented by Carl Pulfrich in the early 20th century. It is due to the difference in the speed of perception according to an object’s luminosity.  The Pulfrich effect is thus perceptible only in the case of moving objects.  For example, look at the [...]