Imagine 3D Video Without Those Annoying Red-Blue Glasses

Imagine 3D Video Without Those Annoying Red-Blue Glasses
Published: Jun 5, 2009
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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Imagine 3D Video Without Those Annoying Red-Blue Glasses

Imagine 3D Video Without Those Annoying Red-Blue Glasses

Imagine 3-D Video Without Those Annoying Red-Blue Glasses


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A 42-inch LED display screen in the window of an unoccupied retail store on Seventh Avenue and 50th Street in Manhattan causes groups of people to stop, look and wonder. The display shows looped videos of a rotating Snickers bar and a moving Intel logo. What’s different about this is that it is a 3-dimensional display that doesn’t require viewers to wear red-and-blue glasses to see the 3D effect. (Photo courtesy of Alioscopy)


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Three-dimensional graphics don’t translate to two-dimensional media very well, but an augmented photo of butterflies coming through the screen isn’t far from what viewers experience in autostereoscopic 3D. (Photo courtesy of Alioscopy)


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Another example of Alioscopy’s autostereoscopic 3D is this photo depicting coins coming out of the screen.(Photo courtesy of Alioscopy)


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At the Autodesk Gallery display in San Francisco, this rotating multicolored purse looked real enough to take shopping to nearby Fisherman’s Wharf. (Photo by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK)


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A Budweiser beer bottle looked real enough to grab and pop open. (Photo by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK)


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Alioscopy CEO Philippe Roche (left) and Vincent Brisebois, designer of Autodesk’s Toxik product, take a break at the Autodesk Gallery presentation in San Francisco. (Photo by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK)


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Chris Preimesberger

Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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