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3-D movies on cell phone

Posted by Eavesdropper Feb 15, 2011

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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, German researchers demonstrated a mobile radio standard of LTE-Advanced video coding techique called Multiview Video Coding (MVC). The goal is 3D films on cell phones. Despite recent reports of children and adults having eye strain from using the Nintendo 3D gaming device the 3DS, Researchers  at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications,  Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, HHI in Berlin have decided to go ahead on this project. The have created a compression algorithm that works well with HD video. Thomas  Schierl is a scientist at the HHI explains, “MVC is used to pack  together the two images needed for the stereoscopic 3-D effect to  measurably reduce the film's bit rate,.The 2-D and 3-D bit streams  divided up by MVC can be prioritized for each user at the air interface  to support different services, thus opening up a completely new field  for business models.” A novelty or a new standard indeed, it's going to happen.


With Sprint possibly switching from WiMAX to LTE, this will most definitely be in our forecast.


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At this year’s Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, toy company Mattel Inc. unveiled a unique and creative way to use a video camera.  They put a miniature camera into a Hot Wheels car that captures up to 60fps of video, so that you, or anyone else can see what it’s like to drive a car at 1:64 the scale.  In other words, you will have the point-of-view of a Hot Wheels driver without using a shrink-ray. You can watch the video from the car on either a TV or PC thanks to a USB cable, and if you have neither, the car also has an LCD screen on the bottom that you can watch from. The car also has on-board memory but can only hold about 12 minutes of video. The Video Racer will be available this fall for around $59.99. This brings me back to when I was a kid and wanted to be able to drive my basket full of awesome vehicles. Then again, my Hot Wheels always ended up crashing from the seemingly impossible 2 story jumps off of the second floor of my parent’s house. Check out the video for Mattel’s demonstration. For more information visit: http://www.mattel.com/


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