Start3D.com says it’s the first website dedicated to sharing 3D photos online – and it also can transform photographs “into a gentle animation that reveals depth on a 2D screen by exchanging one dimension of space for time.”
Academy Award Technical Achievement Oscar winner Colin
Davidson founded Start 3D as an easy way to see 3D on a computer and share with
friends and families who don’t have any additional equipment. The site features
his “Piku-Piku” viewer [Japanese for “twitching”], which emulates holding and
tilting a lenticular print, showing differing depth in stereoscopic images.
Online users can interact with the viewer “to control the
point of view as if they were there,” the company says, and see 3D without
specialized or two-color glasses.
Anyone can upload shots taken with a normal digital camera,
a pair of photographs of the same scene about 3 inches apart. The site will
combine the images into a simulated 3D animation.
Davidson also predicts, “By this time next year, a 3D camera
will be on everyone’s Christmas wish list.”
January 25, 2010
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