Saturday, January 10, 2009

Do-it-yourself 3D movies at home

3D films may soon no longer be the sole province of movie studios with big budgets.
At CES, two firms have been showing off ways for home users to make and share their own 3D films.One is a webcam with two lenses that mimics human sight and turns the images it captures into 3D footage.



Another firm is producing software that it hopes will make it far easier for home users to show 3D movies on many different types of screen.Manchester-based PDT has created the Minoru webcam that has two lenses set roughly the same distance apart as human eyes. Software included with the webcam turns the two images into what is known as an anaglyph.To see the resultant footage in 3D, viewers must wear the familiar spectacles with red and blue lenses. This ensures that only one of the two images being shown is seen by each eye and forces the brain to turn them into a moving 3D image. DIY 3D movies shot with the Minoru can be shared on YouTube

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