Later this month, June 21-22, at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City will be the second annual “International Conference on Stereoscopic 3D for Media Entertainment”, better known as the SMPTE Conference. If you’re interested in 3D, either from a research or a production perspective, sounds like this might be a good event to attend.
During the two-day event, engineers, scientists, and researchers will discuss the latest work on human factors and the viewing of 3D materials; stereoscopic image acquisition and production advancements; stereoscopic image metrology and processing, including an open-source camera platform being developed at Stanford University ; and advancements in stereoscopic displays, including those related to live, holographic TV.
That last one sounds interesting: live, holographic TV. I have a feeling people are thinking holographic as in the “free-standing, multiple simultaneous viewpoint” vision popularized in Star Wars, not the “scattering from laser interference” that is actual holograms. But still, it would be interesting to see how people propose recording & broadcasting it.
yes, I beleive we will have star wars level holography in 10-15 years, but I don’t think there will be any ‘broadcasts’ the way there is usually a ‘broadcast’
media and cable companies, as currently defined, will likely be non-existant.