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 10, 2015, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Hirofumi Yabu from Osaka City University described the developments in holographic 3-D displays. With this development, we are close to the Star Wars scene showing a small Princess Leia image floating in space. Existing systems for full 360-degree 3-D images are fairly large and complex, like a CAVE…
February 9, 2015, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Ian Bickerstaff from Sony Computer Entertainment highlighted their efforts to bring stereoscope to the Playstation generation and encourage the move 3-D. The company has been developing the underlying technologies in their Project Morpheus and has included many of the technologies into the latest console. A part of the…
August 5, 2014, Emerging Display Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—A trio of pundits and technologists talked about the drivers and markets for 4k TV sets. Paul Gagnon from NPD Displaysearch joined Graham Loveridge from Pixelworks and Mick Grover from Sharp in a set of presentations. Gagnon noted that the market is growing for all types…
June 17, 2014, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age Conference, Stanford, CA—A panel addressed the changes in movie making, sports, and games due to new underlying technologies. Chris Bregler from NY University and Industrial Light and Magic moderated the panel, with members Marv White from ESPN, Kim Libreri from Lucas Film, and Erik Johnson…
March 26, 2014, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Douglas Lanmar and David Luebke from NVIDIA described their efforts in developing head-mounted displays that are more in line with size and weight as sunglasses. Ivan Sutherland’s work back in 1968 resulted in head-mounted displays that were reasonably thin and aligned with the visual axis. Although of…
June 19, 2013, Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, SPMTE and SCIEN conference, Stanford, CA—Patrick Griffis from Dolby held a fireside chat with Rod Bogart from Pixar and Ricardo Motta from Nvidia about preserving artistic intent in an Internet world. Content creation is challenged by the requirements for delivery to various devices, especially mobile. The…
January 2013 – The new Neat Receipt Desktop Scanner is a joy to work with. Installation of the software and familiarizing myself with the scanner itself was easy, but the speed of the scanner and companion software was remarkable. Neat desktop scanner I am the type who has typically followed the “shove it a box…
January 25, 2011, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco–Stefan Hell from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry talked about the technologies and techniques needed to extend optical imaging below the wavelength of light. For a long while, to apply microscopic with focus light meant that details more than half the wavelength of light, about 200…