VisuMotion unveils 3D Camera to shoot real 3D videos for glasses-free 3D-Displays

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3D-News Posted: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (19:45 UTC) | Posted By: Webmaster

 

At the world's leading IT fair, CeBIT 2008, VisuMotion unveils its ground-breaking 3D camera that allows 3D capturing of cross-platform footage for use with glasses-free 3D-displays.

 

VisuMotion will show off this new technology at the booth of Thuringia A40 in hall 9 in form of a live/live transmission from the 3D camera to a multi-user 3D-display. The new 3D camera is available for rental services as of now and selling announced by mid of 2008 in a professional version. By means of this astonishing technology, for the first time in the history of the 3D industry it is possible to create real video footage independent from the 3D-display type that is used later on for the depiction of the takes.

 

The use of glasses-free 3D displays is rapidly increasing worldwide, particularly for digital signage applications, 3D gaming, research and development as well as for medicine and Virtual Reality setups. Market researches foresee a worldwide turnover of 3D products in 2010 of several 100,000,000 Euros.

 

VisuMotion's product portfolio also includes 3D Rendering Plug-ins for Autodesk's 3D Studio Max and Maya, the Compositing and Editing Software "3D StreamLab", the 3D Application Driver "DeepOutside3D" as well as the playback software "3D Movie Center".

 

The multi-stream (multi-view) rendering required for autostereoscopic 3D displays is executed by means of the plug-ins for the well-known animation packages. This means, 3D animations (or still pictures) are automatically rendered in various perspective views.

 

The work flow seamlessly leads to the 3D Editing and Compositing solution "3D StreamLab" that allows the simultaneous postproduction of all different video streams (i.e. the multiple views).

 

3D Content creators will both benefit from the unique high-speed rendering algorithms implemented in this master piece of software and profit by the fact that once 3D videos are rendered and cut by VisuMotion software, these can be played back on nearly any type of 3D display that is commercially available now and in the future.

 

To complete the 3D solution chain, VisuMotion provides the 3D playback software "3D Movie Center" which is available as Library and Network Edition.

 

The Library Edition runs on a stand-alone PC that drives a (single) 3D display. In order to increase the customer benefit, from now on each license of the Library Edition includes an ActiveX-license by means of which the user may integrate a 3D-playback into own applications.

 

The Network Edition enables to control a network setup of 3D displays.

 

Up to now it was impossible to combine 3D displays of different manufacturers in such a network when being driven by a single server. This limitation has now been overcome thanks to VisuMotion's software solutions. And even more: The 3D Movie Center is downward compatible to usual two-dimensional footage which means such display networks can be formed by 3D and 2D displays at the same time.

 

The product "DeepOutside3D" allows the glasses-free 3D visualisation of certain DirectX based applications such as 3D games. A completely new feature is also the support of certain OpenGL based applications. A well thought-trough license algorithm provides for the fact that the user only pays the support for those applications that he really uses.

 

Alexander Schmidt, CTO Software, describes VisuMotion's business approach as follows: "The unsolved challenges for the use of autostereoscopic displays consisted mostly of various non-congruent hardware and software approaches that exist parallel to each other, the neglect of suitable 3D infrastructure to drive 3D-displays and the fact that compelling real video 3D content could hardly be made for 3D displays so far. VisuMotion is dissolving these growth barriers of the 3D industry by providing universal 3D infrastructure conceptions that support the display products of nearly any maker. Thus, there is also a good potential to play a substantial role in forming standards for the 3D industry. By providing a powerful 3D camera, VisuMotion takes away another bottle neck for the wide use of 3D-displays."