The 3D heat wave then soon wild spread to customer electronics, and entertainment industry. Even though the 3D format is yet to be common to all the consumers, the war has quietly begun between all the electronic giants such as Sony, Panasonic, and Samsung. The major players in consumer electronics are beginning to show off their latest 3D TV, 3D Blu-Ray player with their own proprietary eyewear and 3D ready cameras (which will be compatible with their 3D TV). As a key player with his feet crossing into multiple industries, Sony is planning big for 3D and ready for the battle this year.  Sony might not be the first manufacturer getting their 3D gears out on the market, but Sony is slowly but firmly getting its own 3D gene into all their product lines. As promised, there will be around 20 3D titles for Playstation 3 before March 2011; all gamers will be able to enjoy the jaw dropping gaming experience at home with its own 3D TV. Better yet, Sony promised to update its Playstation 3 console to be 3D ready at September.  Sony’s newly invention in its Alpha DSLR line (NEX) will also be able to capture 3D panoramic pictures to be display onto their own 3D TV.

Moreover, the biggest news announced at 2010’s E3 is Nintendo 3DS. According to engadgets editors who have attained the show, the result is absolutely amazing on its own 3.53” high resolution LCD. The 3D effect is astonishing and the screen could allow user to adjust how deep the 3D effect looks. This portable gaming device is also capable of taking 3D pictures with the equipped duo cameras on the cover. This will be the cheapest consumer grade 3D camera which will enable user to take 3D ready pictures and view it or licensed 3D photo frames.

To wrap up, 3D is surely getting itself into our daily life like a storm. I believe we are all exciting ready for this change, and it will for sure make our live more exciting.

BTW: At Creaform Montreal office we also have a 3D laptop made by Sharp lying in house! It is by far the first consumer grade3D laptop that is equipped with a 15” color 3D display. No glasses required!

Benefits of MOCAP:

• Faster than traditional animation (Key frame-based animation)
• Complex movement and realistic physical interaction, it is easy to capture
• Movement precision
• Cost reduction for movies or video games work flow

The MOCAP methods started with a photogrammetric analysis tool. When you use Motion Capture, the person has to wear markers near each joint of his body to identify the movement by angles or positions between the targets. The markers are the acoustics, the inertial, the light-emitting diode (LED), the magnetic or the reflective markers, or combination of all of theses.

I think with the new technologies you can achieve perfect details to make video games and movies more realistic. Let’s check a video to better understand the impact of motion capture!

Going 3D in Avatar

In the meantime, surfing on the same wave, is what happened at CES 2010. For those who have not been following the Consumer Electronic Show, we can say that 2010 was either the year of the Slate or the Year of the 3D HDTV.

At the same time, we’ve seen 3d camcorders, 3d blu-ray players and 3d gaming slowly coming up. That’s a lot of 3d for one single person!

The amount of consumer products integrating 3D in one form or another clearly shows that the manufacturers are ready to sell 3D technologies. As manufacturers of 3D scanning devices, we can only be excited with the new perspectives that these devices bring to the table. On our side, we have seen that 3D technologies definitely has a place in the industrial world,the next logical step is that the general public to step in this third dimension. It may take a while, but I definitely think that we will somehow get to that.