April 5, 2016, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Azzam Edwin from Stereolabs talked about the requirements for mixing large-scale real and VR imagery. The ever-increasing capabilities of GPUs enables many possible new visual functions.. The recent release of consumer-level VR viewers is fine for small scale, private viewing, but suffers from the need for external…
June 2, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—Engineers from Intel explained their work on RGB-D cameras that operate at over 30 fps. By synchronizing and combining registration of the visible and IR depth information, they enable new apps and user experiences. The underlying technology is similar to that in the Microsoft Kinect….
June 2, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—One session on imaging applications had Kazuhiro Suzuki from Toshiba describe a switchable micro-lens array (MLA) system that captures both high resolution image and low-resolution light field information. The system addresses the major problem of light filed cameras, low resolution. The technologies for creating a…
February 3, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Nick Holliman from the University of York and Jonathan Berry from Durham University talked about enhancing 3-D depth perception with audible cues. This work reflects the relative lack of depth, about +/-20 cm from the surface of the screen on a television. Although people are known to respond…
January 24, 2012, SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—Pete Bradshaw and Debargha Mukherjee from Google describe their efforts in promoting 3-D videos. The first issue facing adoption of 3-D is that there is very little content available. Some of the first 3-D videos took a lot of work just to get the two cameras set…
January 24, 2012, SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—two technical teams presented the issues and suggested solutions for cinematic to television conversion for good 3-D. The complementary talks described the basic technology and specific techniques for the conversion processes. Didier Doyen noted that the problems are due to the changes in size and viewing distance…
November 2, 2011, International Games Innovation Conference, Orange, CA–Zsolt Mathe from the Microsoft KInect group talked about the magic behind Kinect. He described the development process and the changes in approach needed to make a new user interface. They started with hardware from PrimeSource and held a hack-a-thon to cobble together some software. The magic…