Posted
on May 17, 2010, 4:35 pm,
by admin,
under Technology.
Apple Is Developing 3D Holographic Display
3D is once again taking over Hollywood and preparing to make a move into your home theatre. Apple Computer, a leader in entertainment devices, is preparing to launch a whole new wave of three-dimensional interactive experience.
Apple is in the process of redefining how viewers experience 3D technology by eliminating special glasses and other restrictive head-mounted devices. Apple’s system will be based on holographic 3D objects and will allow the interaction of multiple users.
Diagrams from the patent application filed this week reveal a complex network of projections and light sensors. Perfect for advertising!
Posted
on May 5, 2010, 4:24 pm,
by admin,
under Movie.
Finally! Life 2.0 is an in depth look at Second Life and the character building relationships within the Internet’s largest user-created virtual world community.
Second Life is a 3D virtual online world with users from around the world. Hundreds of thousands of users log on daily and assume their digital alter egos in the form of a 3D avatar. Part fantasy, part escapism the lines between reality and virtual reality are blurred.
Director Jason Spingarn-Koff explores the human interactions of Second Life residents by immersing himself in their virtual worlds. In doing so he creates a character-based drama that forces us to question our own existence.
This feature-length documentary follows a group of people whose lives are dramatically transformed by the virtual world Second Life. They enter a new reality, whose inhabitants assume alternate personas in the form of avatars. The film is foremost an intimate, character-based drama about people who look to a virtual world in search of something they are missing in their real lives. A young woman in Detroit becomes a star designer of virtual clothes and houses; an American and a Canadian fall in love online then struggle to build a real life together; a man creates the avatar of an 11-year-old girl who he believes is an expression of his subconscious. The results are unexpected and often disturbing: reshaping relationships, identities, and ultimately the very notion of reality.
