It's sometimes easy to forget when you're watching an animated movie just how complex the underlying technology is. In this video, Steve Carell explains the 3D animation processes involved in taking an idea from the storyboard to the movie theatre. Read More >>
ESPN will kill 3D TV by the end of the year. We reached out to ESPN, and the company confirmed the report citing lackluster adoption of the technology. This is huge news considering the mammoth investment that TV manufacturers and broadcasters have made to try to bolster the tech. Read More >>
Featured comment by Marekj:
"3D is being discarded as it's done it's job. Tens of millions of TV's sold? Check.
-What can we sell them now?
-We'll push 4K/Ultra HD
-But it's..." More »
3D films increasingly the norm nowadays, whether you love it or hate it (hate it). But however you feel about it, did you know that there are varying levels of 3D quality? For the discerning types, there is a convenient website that separates the real-deal, shot-in-3D flicks from the inposters that fake it. Read More >>
Featured comment by Tony:
"Unfortunately the studios have invested very heavily in 3D, so it is unlikely to die and wither as most people would like. Its a hideous concept and w..." More »
Imagine taking a picture, without a camera. If that sounds 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. Read More >>
The WSJ reports that Amazon is devloping a battery of new devices, including a smartphone that would use a crazy-sounding glasses-free 3D technology. If it's true... what in heavens? Read More >>
A fan-made Minecraft mod Minecrift has added Oculus Rift support to block-building world sim Minecraft, letting players immerse themselves in the adult LEGO simulator like never before. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jademalo:
"Haha, I made that topic on MTBS3D!
I honestly didn't think anything would come of it, but the result has been absolutely amazing. I can't wait for ..." More »
Weapons. Toys. Entire skulls. There’s no limit to the objects we can 3D print these days, but the materials themselves haven’t evolved as quickly—we’re still stuck in a world of plastic, steel, and ceramic. That’s all about to change, thanks to the work of a small Oakland fabrication studio called Emerging Objects. Read More >>
Iron Man 3 is out in the UK on general release tomorrow, ahead of the US by some time too I might add, and while most of us haven't had a chance to see it yet, an important question has cropped up: Is it worth seeing Stark's latest epic, or any new movie for that matter, in 3D these days? Has 3D in the cinema died like it has at home? Read More >>
Featured comment by gapsta:
"Seems a lot of folk just dont get on with 3D, Good 3d on 3D Bluray is amazing i find,
Especially at home powered by a good graphics card on an activ..." More »
You're looking at the Sony DEV-50V, an overhauled version of the pricey multi-gadget Sony announced at IFA a few years ago. The sophisticated optical set has a brand new beautiful look. And the guts inside are nuts: They're part 25x zoom digital binoculars, part sophisticated 3D camcorder, and all kinds of crazy expensive. Read More >>
The bonkers video embedded above shows one possible future for video games, in which the speed of your armoured space marine is tied in to how fast you are at running. It's the amazing 3D-PC-gaming-system Oculus Rift teamed with a 360-degree treadmill. It's killing pretend people made into a healthy leisure activity. Read More >>
Featured comment by TankBoyBen:
"haha yeah well its called bloody frustrating in my world, i wanna get involved, shit like this could/should be the gym of the future....or the beginni..." More »
It may not be as easy as print, plug, and play, but designer J.C. Karich is proving that you can make a pair of working headphones with nothing but raw materials, a 3D printer, open source designs, and a little gumption. Read More >>
It's a universal truth that Jurassic Park is a near-perfect movie, which is why its 20th anniversary re-release in 3D has elicited both elation and groans from fans. Yay, hurray, Jurassic Park in theaters! Uh oh, I hope the 3D conversion doesn't ruin the film! Read More >>
It’s not too often that I make a tech prediction that actually comes true, although like many people, I prefer to think I’m better at it than I really am. Still, when one does come out as I foretold I am not immune to rubbing my hands with glee and smiling with a cheeky grin, which is exactly what happened with the recent demise of 3D television. Read More >>
Featured comment by Sam.Amiri.021:
"Don't get me wrong, I love 3D mate. I just don't enjoy putting on a glasses and sitting straight in front of my TV not moving away at all.
I enjoy it..." More »
Ever since The Matrix, it's been something of an action movie staple to have slow-down-swing-around-the-subject shots. And it's not even that hard to pull off, if you have a veritable army of GoPros anyway. That's how Marc Donahue and Permagrin Films did it, and the results are pretty neat. Read More >>
A helicopter flyover of a crowded urban city can make for an awesome and dramatic establishing shot in a film. But an expensive one, too, making them impractical for most amateur filmmakers. Or so we assumed until we saw the fantastic flyover footage Paul Wex was able to create using Nokia's Here mapping service, and a hell of a lot of patience. Read More >>
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