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NAB 2009 - Monday Madness

gCubik: Sharing and Grasping 3D Images

I spent Monday at NAB in the South Hall, with a brief excursion into North Hall. Here’s a little of what I saw and heard…

gCubik: Sharing and Grasping 3D Images used a handheld cube with 3D LCDs in each face to demonstrate in-the-round (or in-the-cube) 3D images.

Real-time holographic white-light camera.

A 4k video camera on an optical bench shot a small setup using white light (through a series of lenses and a lenticular sheet) and the resulting image, processed by a bank of PCs, created a holographic image.

Real-time holographic 3D display rig.

The image was reproduced using a set of RGB lasers with prisms and combiners.

The resulting postage-stamp-sized image may not have been the most dramatic thing imaginable (and I wasn’t able to get a properly usable photo of it), but like a dancing bear, the wonder was that it worked at all!

3D immersive sound system.

Three speaker globes, each with 26 individual speaker elements, and two traditional speakers were used to create an immersive soundscape. They were fed tracks recorded from an equally immersive array of microphones surrounding musicians. Walking through the space sounded just like walking through a small ensemble.

These were tech demos, and may or may not make it into shipping products in the future. When I went to the South Hall, the stuff was at least supposed to be offered for sale…

The Avid booth in the front of the South Hall upper level takes the sapce that Sony used to occupy.

Avid returns to NAB with “New Thinking”, a large and impressive booth, and a nicely reworked logo.

Next: two cool products for the rest of us, and some Adobe demos…

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Excellent report Adam! makes me kick myself for missing NAB for the first time in many years.

If you get a chance, please stop by the Convergent Design booth and investigate the XDR and Nano Flash Recorders and tell us what you think.

Thank again for the reporting and analysis; top-notch as always.

Posted by lightprism  on  04/21  at  08:21 AM

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“and if you’re trying to cut HD on a system with less than 16 gigs, you’re doing yourself a disservice.”

Urr okay. I guess everyone should throw out their G5’s and 06/07 Mac Pro’s then

Mind you, given how bloated Adobes products are it doesn’t surprise me that they recommend 16 gigs!

Posted by Simon Wyndham  on  04/23  at  03:04 PM

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lightprism: yes, I saw the nanoFlash and Flash XDR, and I’ll discuss ‘em in my wrap-up article.

Simon: hey, I’m just reporting what Adobe said, grin. I lack the RAM capacity in any of my systems to either confirm or deny the veracity of that assertion, though I think it was aimed more at the Windows Vista crowd—and there, quite simply, I shall not go!

Posted by Adam Wilt  on  04/23  at  04:28 PM

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