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Porn Industry Tiptoes Into 3D Video
itwbennett writes "The 3D porn experience is coming (eventually) to a home theater near you. Most adult filmmakers are moving slowly toward 3D video because of higher production cost, the small number of 3D TVs in the home, and, of course, the glasses. Rob Smith, director of operations at Hustler Video Group says he hopes that market penetration of 3D TVs in the home is high enough that 'by the fourth quarter of this year it will be at the point where we can justify doing a 3D product.' The average adult movie costs around $25,000 to $40,000 to make, and 3D movies cost about 30% more, says Ali Joone, founder of Digital Playground. But Joone thinks the biggest hurdle for 3D isn't so much the cost as the glasses: people don't want to be encumbered by eyewear when viewing a film, says Joone."
hehe, he said "penetration"!
Think of the "money" shot...shudder.
But Joone thinks the biggest hurdle for 3D isn't so much the cost as the glasses: people don't want to be encumbered by eyewear when viewing a film, says Joone
That's certainly what people fear most: getting caught wearing glasses while watching porn.
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1969's The Stewardesses ("See the lusty stewardesses leap from the screen to your lap") "is the most profitable 3-D film in history" (Avatar may now have beaten it).
In POV porn.
And here I thought that Double D was more than enough.
Who in their right mind would actually buy a 3D tv that required you to wear glasses while viewing. That's absurd.
The need for glasses with straps holding them to your head would be a requirement.
You know.. with all that shaking going on the glasses will come right off.
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Surely people who watch porn regularly will already need glasses
I'd have said the same thing before going to "Avatar" in 3d. The usual litany of anti-3d excuses would apply:
I think this is mostly due to hollywood/tech companies chasing the holy grail of 3d for a long time. Many, many vendors have sold products based on claims of "true 3d images" including some spectacularly bad products like the virtual boy or NVidia's attempt at 3d with LCD shutter glasses.
But with the current crop of tech, they've finally made it useable. The glasses I used actually improved the colors, and the film was bright enough not to notice the slight darkening due to the glasses.
After the first 15 minutes of viewing Avatar with the dark glasses (RealD 3D) on, I wouldn't want to watch it any other way.
If you haven't seen Avatar in 3D, do so. Very worth it, and I hope other films are made that way soon. I actually made a joke about wanting to see a 3D porn film on the way out of the theater ("we'd be ducking every time the male lead stood up facing the screen").
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Rob Smith, director of operations at Hustler Video Group says he hopes that market penetration of 3D TVs in the home is high enough that 'by the fourth quarter of this year it will be at the point where we can justify doing a 3D product.
WTF kind of retard is Rob Smith?! Even your average Slashdot user knows that penetration is measured in terms of depth, not height. The irony of it is that Rob Smith has probably had more pussy than the entire Slashdot userbase put together. *sigh*
Fuck, let's slashdot Hustler!
Does anyone really want Peter North cumming at them in 3D?
why would it cost a massive 30% more to make porn in 3D?
Apart from the initial investment in a stereoscopic camera, isn't every other production cost the same? Especially if you're using digital not film. I mean its not like you need to cut/splice the left and right eye-tracks differently.
Speaking of money shots, why is it currently in vogue to finish all sex scenes by having the man ejaculate in the mouth and all over the face of the woman?
Does anyone find this a turn-on? To me, it's gross and degrading. I love looking at nekkid women, but I'll pass on the blowjob and cum-on-the-face scenes. Lack of empathy, I guess.
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I want 3D boobies!
We've had those for a while now. They're called "women".
The porn that I've researched seems to have been made on a sub-$1,000 budget, how are they spending so much money!?
You know, like keeping the camera in focus and not moving around and getting the camera guy to shut up?
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Many, if not most women in porn look pretty horrid what with the bruises, embarrassing tattoos and plastic surgery. They'll look great in one photoshoot and everywhere else they look like a drug-addled 2 dollar whore. On top of that we have to endure guys getting in the way of the action with closeups of their scrotums flopping around like a fish out of water. HD is already a problem for porn, 3D will only make things worse although at this point in the game it's more a gimmick than anything.
Maybe all this technology will have the unintended consequence of turning people away from porn. Your average girl is more attractive than most porn stars. And with a real girl you're not usually exposed to someone who's been pounded into oblivion, viewing everything in extreme closeup.
It was sarcasm.
HTH
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Yes and no. The old style 3D with a blue filter for one stereo channel and red filter for the other can be watched on standard TVs or projectors. The new digital TV uses vertically polarized light for one channel and horizontally polarized light for the other, meaning that yes, it requires 2 projection sources. There is also a scheme I saw used at IMAX that used active LCD glasses synced to the movie via infrared transmitters above the screen so that they alternately shuttered the left and right eye as the right and left image was displayed on the screen. The obvious disadvantage: big expensive battery powered glasses they had to collect from customers and sterilize after every movie. These could also be shown with old projectors, and possibly with old TVs if you could find a way to sync the glasses with the video. Interlaced video has 2 frames anyway, it should be relatively easy to just make one frame the left and the other frame the right channel.
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These need 8 or more images to work, although it is quite possible to interpolate them from the 2 images of a normal stereo movie. This is currently nowhere near real time and sometimes some hints are needed for it to be done right. However I could imagine this becoming a standard: either the interpolation data is stored in the movie as it is far smaller than the images, or processing gets fast enough and the alogorithms good enough that it can be calculated from 2 pictures in real time.
The reason 8 images are needed is that at any position you are seeing image n and n+1 mod N where N is the number of images. Therefore at most positions your left eye sees one image and your right an image from a pov slightly to the right. However at some locations you see image N-1 and 0 and the eyes are reversed. Minimizing the size of these "wrong" positions requires N to be as high as possible.
You seriously need to get yourself a better source for your porn.
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I want 3D boobies!
We've had those for a while now. They're called "women".
How come nobody on this site understands Supply and Demand, even when certain examples hit so close to home?
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I'm actually uncertain what will happen to the adult movie industry after this kind of growth spurt. I mean, we've all seen what kind of a mess can take place when a company prematurely comes from behind or tries to pull out when all they really need is a little coaxing. Of course, it's not like the porn industry has to bend over backwards to provide entertainment these days.
I think once the porn industry stops jerking us around and really starts playing hardball, then I can really get excited. I don't even mind that the porn industry kisses my ass or strokes my ego or throws the general audience a bone now and again, but this could be gigantic. I don't think I really could go either way; I've made up my mind -- I'm straight up ready and willing for this next big thing.
In fact, I'm just about ready to give the porn industry a helping hand.
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Then plug the active flicking thingy directly into your skull and make your eyes blink alternately, in sync with the screen--no glasses needed!
You read it here first. My patent is pending.
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