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YouTube announced it will roll out a beta 2D to 3D conversion system... The quality won't be as good as shooting a 3D movie with a 3D camera, but it'll be interesting to Google's solution...

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Exceptional 3D announced that they have fully integrated their glasses-free 3D software solution with X2O Media’s web-based content management tools for digital signage networks. They say that this is the world's first complete glasses-free content management solution.

Exception will deploy over 300 glasses-free screens in the next few months using the new system for 5 networks.

This is a guest article written by YUVsoft Corp, an R&D company offering professional software for 2D–to–stereo 3D semiautomatic conversion as well as stereo video conversion and quality enhancement.

Nowadays it is not a problem to create a 3D image using the source 2D one. The object seems volumetric since we can see it from two a little different directions simultaneously (due to the presence of two eyes). As we know, 3D videos are often received using two cameras-each of them assumes the function of viewer’s eye. But even in case of using only the single camera during the filming, the image for the second eye can be created automatically with the help of up-to-date soft. So, to receive a 3D video, the stereomate for the each frame of the source video should be created. The most essential point to receive the stereomate is to receive a depth map for the each frame-to establish, how far from the camera each object in the frame was. Traditionally the foreground objects are painted light on the depth maps, and the further is the object, the darker is the corresponding area of the depth map (The sky region is often painted black).

According to IHS, in the past year (since June 2010) only 3.5 million 3D Blu-ray discs were sold. And about half of these were bundled with a Blu-ray player. Today there are still less than 100 3D Blu-ray titles available...

Samsung 3D Blu-ray player

YouTube and NVidia announced today that YouTube will start broadcasting 3D videos to PCs with NVidia's 3D Vision kit. It will only work with FireFox 4 and will stream using HTML5.

YouTube has been broadcasting anaglyphics (red/blue) 3D since 2009, and it's great to hear that they are adding another format.

Nvidia has launched a new online community for 3D-Vision users. The idea is to enable users to share 3D content - photos and videos on 3D-enabled PCs or notebooks.

Check it out here

Disney plans to release "at least" 15 3D Blu-ray titles in 2011. This will include Tron: Legacy and Tangled, and the 3D titles will be released together with the 2D versions.

via Engadget