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World's First Integrated Twin-Lens 3D Camcorder
ElectricSteve writes "Shooting in 3D has traditionally required a complex, bulky and fragile rig using two cameras and additional hardware to calibrate and adjust them. Panasonic's straight-forwardly-named Twin-lens Full HD 3D camcorder looks to radically change the 3D game, with integrated lenses and dual SDHC memory card slots allowing you to capture 3D footage immediately, with just one device." So there ya go, get started making your own Avatar.
I can't WAIT to see all those cute kitten videos in 3D!!!
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
So where do I get the blue aliens and the monsters and the vehicles and ...
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
Now not only can our relatives bore us with their hours-long videos of their cruise, but they can also leave us with (worse) headaches and intense nausea! Now that's what I call progress!
3D handheld shaky-cam shots. My eyes can't wait!
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
Great, now every porn flick is going to look like a Gallagher concert.
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It's coming to a TV near you in the next year or so (3D-capable TVs are the new hotness now that HDTVs have becoming commonplace in the market). Samsung, in particular, has announced models that will use RealD technology (ie, the same thing used in movie theatres) to display 3D on your TV using standard circularly polarized glasses. In fact, the technology itself is pretty straight forward, you just need a TV capable of a relatively high frame rate (RealD is 144hz) combined with a polarizing overlay which switches at the same rate.
Dr. Tongue's 3D House of Stewardesses - now in actual 3D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87WgmGHz9U4
There may also be "other" applications. I'll get back to you on that.
The hype claims "While it's far cheaper than building your own 3D rig, the SRP of US$21,000... ", but that is far from accurate. You can build your own quite decent 3D system with two inexpensive (around $100 bucks each) Canon cameras, some free open source software, and very simple hardware. See http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/sdm/index.htm for details.
Plus, adding insult to injury, the article raves about this $12,000 camera working with two inexpensive SDHC memory cards rather than more expensive P2 memory cards. Doesn't the $12,000 price tag rather defeat any savings in memory cards?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
I really just don't understand this whole 3D movie thing. It's about as interesting as VR gloves in the late 90s; a neat idea, but really nothing but an expensive, impractical gimmick.
I think I'll sit this out until someone invents the Holodeck, or at the very least, makes something that doesn't hurt my eyes or make me wear glasses.
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. " ---Henry David Thoreau
This is not your father's cam corder. At USD21,000 or so, this is low end pro (or insane serious amateur) stuff. Mostly this is an engineering exercise to see how things work and get some presence in the market.
Expect to see something similar to this on you cell phone in about, let's say, 2038.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
The porn industry is on this.
Or you could go watch a play.
(Just kidding. Sort of)
Maybe it's about time that the standard consumer camcorder takes video in full HD for a decent price? I'd like to see that first.
Your wish is my command. So how was this last year you spent in a cave?
Tigerdirect has that first model on sale for $500. That seems to me to be a pretty decent price... unless you're one of those "Let me know when I can get [product X] with [feature Q], [feature R], and two [feature S] for $99".
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
Expect to see something similar to this on you cell phone in about, let's say, 2038.
In 2038, you won't need a camera phone, you'll just need a subscription to the Panopticon Drone Network®, filming everything, everywhere, for your fun and pleasure, since 2031!
Cameras need better mic options.
Have you looked into NVidia's offering? If you've got a good enough monitor (needs 120Hz) and a decent NVidia card already, the glasses are only 200USD, and I'd imagine you could find somewhere in the UK selling them as well. But again, that assumes you already have the graphics card (probably not _too_ expensive) and a 120Hz monitor (more expensive)
> So there ya go, get started making your own Avatar.
But with a better plot, please.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Look at the size of the handstrap on the side, then use that to judge the size and distance of the lenses. I think you'll find that it's rather large.
The size of the tripod throws you off, but that's a solid, professional tripod and not some tiny kid's toy.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
3-D won't take off as a serious tech until two way brain computer interfaces are as commonplace as cell phones are today. No one want's to have to deal with 3-D that requires you wear glasses or contact lenses or what not, it would be more easily accepted if you could just stream the data to your visual cortex along with all of the other sensations that "realistic fantasy reality" entails.
Flittery jittery images in bulky headache producing glasses that appears somewhat 3-D won't compare to simulated optic nerve data being fed by a computer.
I will wait for the iBrain or the iMind before I go "Full 3-D".
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