TR10: Mobile 3-D

The new Samsung B710 phone is just like any typical smart phone, except for one amazing feature. Once you turn the phone from vertical to horizontal mode the images on the screen jump from 2-D to 3-D imaging. The founder of this amazing feature to be used on a smart phone is Julien Flack, CTO of Dynamic Digital Depth, who spent more that a decade trying to perfect the software to convert 2-D images to 3-D. The truly amazing part about this form of 3-D imaging is the fact that you dont need special 3-D glasses to see the images, this is just an amazing part of the new smart phone. The way the software works is by synthesizing 3-D secnes from existing 2-D video by estimating the depth of the objects using cues. This form of technology will be used in televisons to be announced in Janurary but these televisons require glasses to see the 3-D images. Mobile 3-D is far better than on televisons because of the fact that only one person at a time uses a phone while televisons are seen by multiple people so projecting the 3-D images is harder of t.v than mobile phone. Flack's software has led to Dynamic Digital Depths leading role in the 3-D imaging world. The Samsung B710, released in south korea in 2007, has liscensed 3-D content generated by Dynamic Digital Depth for its latest 3-D phone. The most interesting thing to me is that they will be able to project video games on the phone. This new form of smart phone is amazing and will be soon in the united states so look out for this one because its simply amazing.

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