The digital stereoscopic cinema: the 21st Century

"The digital stereoscopic cinema: the 21st Century" by Lenny Lipton, REAL D. This technical talk was presented 29 January 2008 at the annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (SD&A) conference, San Jose, California, USA. http://www.stereoscopic.org Over 1000 theaters in more than a dozen countries have been outfitted with digital projectors using the Texas Instruments DLP engine equipped to show field-sequential 3-D movies using the polarized method of image selection. Shuttering eyewear and advanced anaglyph products are also being deployed for image selection. Many studios are in production with stereoscopic films, and some have committed to producing their entire output of animated features in 3-D. This is a time of technology change for the motion picture industry. The technical paper supporting this presentation is available in the SD&A conference proceedings. Please consider attending the next SD&A conference. See http://www.stereoscopic.org for more talks and Stereoscopic-3D information. Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference