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3D Lab in the Middle East – Real Vision

The 3D Lab was inaugurated last week, and has been well received by the press.

In a nutshell the 3D Lab has been built to encourage best practices in stereoscopic 3D production.

Production studios and professionals from the GCC, Arabian gulf region, and India have already shown keen interest to attend workshops to be conducted at the 3D Lab, and to meet like minded professionals in this collaborative environment.

Mutually beneficial Opportunity:

The 3DLab welcomes hardware and software manufacturers to place on permanent loan, equipment and NFR versions of software, which will be exposed to regional production houses and potential clients.

The 3DLab can act as showcase and will not be polarized or biased toward any one technology or vendor.

Feel free to contact Clyde in this regard.

More on the 3DLab in pictures: http://bit.ly/rsray9

Current equipment and facilities in the 3DLab

  • ET Quasar Rig (for broadcast 3DTV and cinema configs)
  • Panasonic AG3DA1
  • Prosumer 3D cameras from Sony and GOPro
  • Digital Projection’s Titan 2K 3D projector
  • Real D polarizer projection system
  • JVC professional 3D monitors
  • Cineform NEO 3D (full license)
  • The Foundry NUKE + Ocula (full license)
  • Classroom collaborative environment for workshops.
  • Studio zone, Hardware beta test zone and dedicated Software sandbox area.

Areas of exploration and interest:

  • Laser scanning and data set visualization
  • Stereoscopic Caves
  • 3D Rigs
  • Camera systems
  • Virtual Sets and Realtime tracking
  • Broadcast 3DTV infra structure and workflows
  • Stereo 3D gaming

and more…

 

Clyde DeSouza can be reached at Real Vision at [email protected] – The Real Vision site is at: RealVision.ae Knowledge Base and stereoscopic 3D Blog

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  • Filmmaker Magazine
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  • DCinemaTools Editorial

    Welcome to the Industry Online news magazine for the Professional Digital Cinema Industry.

    Defining DCinema is like defining the Cote d’Azur and the Riviera. Some people say one or the other goes from St. Tropez into parts of Italy, while some people limit them from Cannes to Monaco. 

    Our definition of professional DCinema (in addition to David Reisner’s definition)  is whatever is involved in capturing, manipulating and exhibiting image and sound using high end, professional digital technology. Digital has been part of the post-production world for a long time, in the acquisition world on a more limited level and the exhibition side is just leaving its science phase.

    Our goal is to bring together the tangential pieces of information from throughout the internet, so that people focused on one area can find nuance and trends from other areas of the community. But because the exhibition end is expecting to have a tech revolution without a lot of tech savvy people, our focus will tend to be at that group. We hope that we are not “All 3D, All the Time”, but we will cover 3D implications.

    We will gather items from blogs and newsletters, but we don’t mean to replace them, just direct you to them as appropriate.

    Please contact us whenever you have ideas that might help us help the community.

    Finally, the disclosure bit: DCinemaTools is part of the DCinemaComplianceGroup, an organization set up to assist exhibitors in fulfilling their requirements of staying compliant with SMPTE and DCI requirements. It is a work in progress, hopefully available Q2 2011, when the SMPTE specs take over. Our project will include projectionist training in the basics as well as maintaining databases of the daily, weekly and monthly inspection reports.