This presentation was delivered to the NatColl Design students here in Auckland earlier this year in a session about 3D display technology and then followed by a demonstration. 3D is the next huge wave in visual eye candy and in NZ we have such partners as NextSpace and the HitLab assisting in making this technology a major export industry over the enxt few years.

1. Stuck in flatness? Expand your dimension with 3D www.iceav.co.nz

6. 3D New Wave Worldwide 1951 – Raymond Spottiswoode Coins the phrase 3D

7. Gates wants to do away with the 2D, flat way that information over the web is delivered to us. Super fast internet connections and improvements in hardware will make possible a world wide web that gives us information in 3D. 3D Buzz Regal, DreamWorks CEOs see 3D transforming movies Ray Disney’s Shamrock's Capital Growth Fund to announce this week that it is putting $50 million into Real D, which has equipped more than 700 movie screens with 3-D systems.

9. Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, which is readying two 3-D films for 2009, predicted that moviegoers will some day own their own glasses for 3-D viewing much like they own sunglasses today. And one more added benefit: 3-D movies can't be easily pirated. Directors Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are embracing 3-D, and George Lucas is giving "Star Wars" the 3-D treatment. 3D Buzz Cameron : 3D's broad acceptance at theaters will generate enough content that consumer-electronics manufacturers will make home players and monitors available. The technology exists now, but is not readily available as off-the-shelf products. 3D display will become a must for video and computer games. Evolution of 3D cinema over 170 years and 15 countries

12. 3D Hits Mainstream Music this month

13. Mainstream Music

16. Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D Maps Industry-leading 3D functionality makes it possible to provide users with a real-world views of your location-based solutions [1] . Virtual Earth Platform Technical Capabilities Bird’s Eye View Provide customers with a more enhanced visual experience by allowing them to pan continuously across the map in bird’s eye view [1] . Geocoding Virtual Earth’s rooftop geocoding leads the industry in accuracy to help you improve the value of the applications you deliver to your users.

19. Introduction to 3D Overview

20. Source: http://www.vision3d.com/stereo.html#top Two Eyes = Two separate Views - Left Eye – Left View - Right Eye – Right View Brain fuses separate Views Into one image 3D Viewing

21. Viewing Pictures

22. 3D Cues in 2D Images http://cgw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Articles&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/psych2e03/lecture6/psych.2e03.lecture6.html Perspective

24. 3D Cues in 2D Images - Texture http://www.jasc.com/support/learn/tutorials/archive/paintshoppro/backdrop3.asp?pg=1 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=46136&item=4125381089&rd=1&tc=photo#ebayphotohosting - Motion Parallax

25. Alternative 3D Technologies

26. Stereoscopic Displays Fake Space Time Sequential (Shuttered Goggles) Spatial Separation (Polarizer Glasses) (Requires Glasses, Goggles, Helmets, etc…) Kodak 3D (2 side by side LCDs, With Oculars, 32mm dia .)

27. Lightspace DepthCube Z1024 3D Display Auto Stereoscopic Displays StereoGraphics SynthaGram 202 (No Glasses, etc. required) Actuality Volumetric Sharp Actius Parallax Barrier Philips 3D WOWvx

31. Convergence Source: http://individual.utoronto.ca/iizuka/research/cellophane.htm Convergence & Focus in same Plane Screen Screen Focus Out of Screen Distance Focus and Convergence Real Life Viewing Traditional 3D Viewing

32. iZ3D Dual layered screen technology

33. Polarised screen technology

37. www.iz3d.com