Thirty years ago, when I was fresh out of grad school and in a California apartment, I saw something unforgettable on television. It was a story on a news show (something like L.A. Today, or something similar) about some researchers at the University of Tennessee. They had discovered some remarkable things about the way we form depth perception, and had translated it into a technique for making 3D TV without any special equipment (other than the camera and recorder).
The reporter then said “Watch this,” and a live action scene of a forest came on the screen in normal 2D. The reporter then said “and this is what it looks like in 3D.” And on my crappy, 17 inch black and white TV was suddenly the forest in natural 3D. I couldn’t believe it. The only anomaly was that the picture flickered.
The researchers said they believed they had solved the flicker problem, and that 3D TV was just around the corner.
In 30 years, I have never seen it again…
There was something on the super bowl a few years back–a 3-d illusion on 2-d sets. I don’t remember how it worked, but it obviously hasn’t taken off. There might have been restrictions on just what type of image could be processed.
Thirty years ago, when I was fresh out of grad school and in a California apartment, I saw something unforgettable on television. It was a story on a news show (something like L.A. Today, or something similar) about some researchers at the University of Tennessee. They had discovered some remarkable things about the way we form depth perception, and had translated it into a technique for making 3D TV without any special equipment (other than the camera and recorder).
The reporter then said “Watch this,” and a live action scene of a forest came on the screen in normal 2D. The reporter then said “and this is what it looks like in 3D.” And on my crappy, 17 inch black and white TV was suddenly the forest in natural 3D. I couldn’t believe it. The only anomaly was that the picture flickered.
The researchers said they believed they had solved the flicker problem, and that 3D TV was just around the corner.
In 30 years, I have never seen it again…
There was something on the super bowl a few years back–a 3-d illusion on 2-d sets. I don’t remember how it worked, but it obviously hasn’t taken off. There might have been restrictions on just what type of image could be processed.