[opendtv] Re: It's official: 3D is dead
- From: Kon Wilms <konfoo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:59:28 -0800
Drat. Guess I should dispose of my Sony HMZ and stop waiting for the Oculus
Rift.
3D is very much alive for gaming.
Cheers
Kon
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One important correction and then some minor details:
>
> - The important one: The term "stereopticon" is frequently misused today.
> A stereopticon is a slide projector, usually having nothing to do with
> stereoscopic viewing. The devices to which you are referring are properly
> called stereoscopes, and they are much older than the 1890s (search for the
> word "stereoscope" with the names Wheatstone, Brewster, Holmes,
> and--possibly the oldest--Elliot).
>
> - The minor points:
> - "Bwana Devil" actually opened late in 1952.
> - The first stereoscopic, photographic motion-picture system was
> actually patented almost a century earlier, in 1853.
> - Stereoscopic movies also appear in Thomas Edison's 1893 patent.
> - There were many earlier experimental presentations of projected
> stereoscopic motion pictures (some even covered in the press), but your
> 1922 date is correct for the first commercial stereoscopic movie with a
> plot.
>
> TTFN,
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> On 1/9/2013 9:01 AM, Cliff Benham wrote:
>
>> On 1/9/2013 8:27 AM, Mark Schubin wrote:
>>
>> In the other direction, Cliff, why restrict yourself to 1950? The first
>>> stereoscopic 3D television transmission was in 1928.
>>>
>>> TTFN,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>> I should have specified film rather than TV.
>> For the reasons you posted, 3D is more acceptable in a theater rather
>> than at home on a too close screen.
>>
>> There were 3D films as far back as 1922 and 'steropticans' from the 1890s.
>>
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