If I am to believe the marketing, the first to do this kind of complete offloading were Alacritech, with their TCP/IP Accelerator. Unfortunately, you have to register to see their benchmark reports.
Xsan from Apple is pretty much StorNext for OS X, only the licenses are a lot cheaper.
Worth mentioning is SGI CXFS, which runs on most popular platforms, although I belive some like OS X are still in beta. Licensing is expensive ($2500+ per node), the setup is complicated and you only get support if you're running SGI storage systems.
Also from IBM is SANergy. This runs alongside your deployed filesharing protocols like NFS & SMB, and "fuses" the actual data transfer over your SAN. Licensing is expensive, and from what I've heard development has been discontinued.
There's also Melio but that's only for Windows and looks like it's going to be version 1.0 forever.
Video recorded with this technology will give you two video streams:
* The normal video-stream that any video-camera will give you.
* Another video-stream containing depth information.
So, what you have, at best, is a way to tell the relative distance from the camera to each point in the image. Which, will let you adress seperate elements of the image based on depth. But, you _won't_ have anything more image-wise than you can record at home with your Sony.
Sorry, no 3D-porn.
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You're mixing things up.
This is not an attempt at 3D-video. This is video with depth information.
It's primary application is to select parts of the image that you want to replace ('keying'), nothing else.
Well, as for covering the same area continuously, this can be accomplished using an geosynchronous/geostationary orbit - which is already used for comms/TV/etc.
However, to maintain the same position over earth, the satellite is positioned ca 22,300 miles out in space, which is a bit far out for effective photography:-)
Apparently something called LEO (Low Earth Orbit) is used for imagery, a LEO being 200-500 miles out in space. In a LEO, the satellite must maintain a certain speed to counter earth's gravity. At this speed (17,000 mph), they can circle the earth in about 90 minutes.
I'm pretty sure that 'monopoly' in the text is referring to 'spy agencies' monopoly on accessing this type of imagery, which has little to do with the commercial meaning of 'monopoly'.
On to something completely different; what's to stop an commercial entity from launching a satellite with the capability to photograph US soil?
Maybe the actual photographing would be legal, but the distribution would not?
This could be an indication that the 'spy agencies' or whoever now have access to even more
sophisticated satellite-imagery, as 'obsolete' military technology tends to become avaliable to the public in one way or another.
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If I am to believe the marketing, the first to do this kind of complete offloading were Alacritech, with their TCP/IP Accelerator. Unfortunately, you have to register to see their benchmark reports.
Xsan from Apple is pretty much StorNext for OS X, only the licenses are a lot cheaper.
Worth mentioning is SGI CXFS, which runs on most popular platforms, although I belive some like OS X are still in beta. Licensing is expensive ($2500+ per node), the setup is complicated and you only get support if you're running SGI storage systems.
Also from IBM is SANergy. This runs alongside your deployed filesharing protocols like NFS & SMB, and "fuses" the actual data transfer over your SAN. Licensing is expensive, and from what I've heard development has been discontinued.
There's also Melio but that's only for Windows and looks like it's going to be version 1.0 forever.
This naming scheme, or at least something very similar, is used by Discreet
for their effects, editing & compositing software.
Products include Inferno, Fire, Smoke, Flame, Combustion, etc.
According to the Wired article, the material witness statute is from 1984. Imagine that..
[Scene: Monica and Rachel's, Monica is in the kitchen chopping vegetables. Chandler and Phoebe are sitting in the living room.]
Phoebe: (to Chandler) Hey! (Chandler looks up, startled) Why isn't it Spiderman? Y'know like Goldman, Silverman...
Chandler: 'Cause it's-it's not his last name.
Phoebe: It isn't?
Chandler: No, it's not like, like Phil Spiderman. He's a spider, man. Y'know like ah, like Goldman is a last name, but there's no Gold Man.
...but my box gives me 100Mbit Ethernet, 270Mbit SDI & 220Mbit ASI.
All you need is a 622Mbit DTM network connection.
Video recorded with this technology will give you two video streams:
* The normal video-stream that any video-camera will give you.
* Another video-stream containing depth information.
So, what you have, at best, is a way to tell the relative distance from the camera to each point in the image. Which, will let you adress seperate elements of the image based on depth. But, you _won't_ have anything more image-wise than you can record at home with your Sony.
Sorry, no 3D-porn.
You're mixing things up.
This is not an attempt at 3D-video. This is video with depth information.
It's primary application is to select parts of the image that you want to replace ('keying'), nothing else.
Actually, SAS is also a member of Star Alliance, so this may very well be a - more or less - joint operation.
Well, as for covering the same area continuously, this can be accomplished using an geosynchronous/geostationary orbit - which is already used for comms/TV/etc.
:-)
However, to maintain the same position over earth, the satellite is positioned ca 22,300 miles out in space, which is a bit far out for effective photography
Apparently something called LEO (Low Earth Orbit) is used for imagery, a LEO being 200-500 miles out in space. In a LEO, the satellite must maintain a certain speed to counter earth's gravity. At this speed (17,000 mph), they can circle the earth in about 90 minutes.
I'm pretty sure that 'monopoly' in the text is referring to 'spy agencies' monopoly on accessing this type of imagery, which has little to do with the commercial meaning of 'monopoly'. On to something completely different; what's to stop an commercial entity from launching a satellite with the capability to photograph US soil? Maybe the actual photographing would be legal, but the distribution would not?
Hm, so maybe I'm being a bit naive saying 'could be'. :-)
This could be an indication that the 'spy agencies' or whoever now have access to even more sophisticated satellite-imagery, as 'obsolete' military technology tends to become avaliable to the public in one way or another.