Posts Tagged ‘3d glasses’

Don’t tell us we don’t deliver the goods, coz we’ve got a great new deal for our YouTube subscribers to The Stereoscopic 3D Video Channel – 10 PAIRS OF 3D GLASSES ABSOLUTELY FREE!!

Okay so what’s the deal I hear you ask… well to get 10 pairs of 3d anaglyph glasses absolutely free you need to do the following:

1. Make sure you’ve subscribed to our Steroesocpic 3D Channel on YouTube.
2. Invite 10 of your friends to subscribe, and make sure they do!
3. Your friends should watch and like at least one of our videos.
4. Email us with your YouTube username plus the ten friends who subscribed usernames.
5. Don’t forget to include your postal address.
6. We’ll send you 10 pairs of 3D glasses absolutely free.
7. Sit back and enjoy our Stereoscopic 3D Channel.

So there’s always some terms and conditions right? Right! Here we go:

1. Your friends must be legitimate YouTube subscribers who have held their accounts longer than 90 days.
2. They must subscribe to our Stereoscopic 3D Channel on YouTube.
3. Limited to one offer per household.
4. While stocks last
5. Allow 28 days for delivery.

To claim your 10 free pairs of 3D glasses you need to email us the details required to wow10@enhanced-dimensions.com

Channel 5’s The Gadget Show ran an interesting challenge this week – where Suzi Perry and Jason Bradbury competed to make the best cutting edge, immersive movie trailer using the latest tech.

While Jason made a crazy 360 degree horror trailer, Suzi’s approach was to film in 3D using two Canon EOS 550Ds mounted on a basic support converging the cameras. The result was surprisingly effective.

The 3D video “The Tech Spremacy” trailer can be viewed online at YouTube or for those of you with Nvidia 3D Vision Systems or suitable 3d TV’s there is a 720p 3D side by side download available from the Gadget Show website. Go Suzi!

Those of you who’ve been following the boom in viewership for our 3d videos may be interested to know we’ve gone way beyond our initial expectations and are currently still seeing an incredible increase in both views and subscriptions to our Stereoscopic 3d Video Channel on YouTube.

We’ve now got:

• Over 100 3d videos online
• Over 275,000 views of our 3d videos
• Over 850 subscribers
• Plus some really great feedback that makes it all the more worthwhile.

Check out our Stereoscopic 3D Video Channel on YouTube now…

It’s been another exciting day with our “FourPlay 3D” Video being featured on iGoogle.co.uk as one of their spotlight videos. In addition to being the featured YouTube partner yesterday our 3d videos are getting a significant increase in the number of views. Some facts and figures will follow shortly… I bet you can’t wait.

Check out our 3d Videos on youTube.

To celebrate the launch of our very first 3d music video Enhanced Dimensions has got a music themed competition running to the end of August 2010.

The fantastic prize pack up for grabs includes:

• Hannah Montana’s “Best of Both Worlds Concert” DVD in glorious 3D with a limited edition 3D cover (also featuring The Jonas Brothers)
• A pair of our cool plastic framed anaglyph glasses
• “Gloria (The Death of Me)” 3D music video on DVD with additional 3D glasses - not available anywhere else!

To stand a chance of winning these fantastic 3d prizes you need to check out our music video over on YouTube and give us the answer to the following question:

• What is written on the front of the drum kit in the video “Gloria (The Death of Me)”?

Email your answers to 3dprizes@enhanced-dimensions.com no later than midnight on 31st August for a chance to win this unique prize pack.

Enhanced Dimensions made history last week by launching Scotland’s first 3D Music Video. The video is for a song called “Gloria (The Death of Me)” by Edinburgh based indie band The Raw I’s. The video has been online for one week, with no commercial promotion, yet has already raked up over 2000 views.

The 6 minute long 3D video can be viewed using red cyan 3d anaglyph glasses on:

• YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/EnhancedDimensions)
• Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/stereoscopic3d#13514033)
• Dailymotion (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe6jmk_3d-music-video-gloria-the-death-of_music)

The 4K 3D HD Video version can be seen using a variety of viewing methods on YouTube using their YT3D player.

The concept of the video is of a futuristic Hologram Projection Kiosk where a band performs – with the band depicted as projected holograms while the stage props, in this case guitar amps and drum kit, are solid objects. Imagine being able to buy your own little hologram theatre and watch your favourite band performing right on your desktop, that would be amazing. The concept was in part inspired by the memory of the Sega Holographic coin-op “Time Traveller” from the early 1990’s, and partly by the variations on the ”pepper ghost” illusion that is back in vogue being used at live events/theatres etc to project “holograms” in front of a live audience.

The video footage was shot using a single Sony HDR-FX 7 with the cast performing to the track in front of a greenscreen. The cast were then composited in a 3D environment created entirely within Adobe After Effects and the various shots and moves were generated with the stereoscopic effect controlled using a custom After Effects 3D rig. With this 3D rig, once the scene and general camera moves are created, the stereo effect can be increased or decreased in order to render versions suitable for a variety of screen sizes. The online version is created for a 23″ Samsung Syncmaster - this version is therefore optimal for around a 20-26″ screen.

The rendering was a massive task – each character has three animated tracking lights, plus every internal panel of the kiosk has a multi-layered animation continuously playing with certain effects syncronised to the drumbeat.  All this is rendered using an off the shelf quad core PC with 4GB RAM. To make one change, e.g.  changing the guitar amp design, would entail a week to re-render all the individual shots then another day to render the various final output 3d formats. All told the video has taken over six months to complete.

Creating the holographic look was key - it had to look a bit grungy with some harshness to suggest the technology wasn’t super smooth and that this existed in a real world environment. The fact that as you get closer the effect becomes more obvious, just as if you got too near a TV more and more artefacts become obvious really brings the look to life. Getting the hologram look right was a little like the recreating scene in Star Wars where R2-D projects Princess Leia… only not quite as sexy.

A very early clip of this was actually used in the short film “FourPlay” that won an InvaZion Award earlier this year – it’s quite interesting to contrast them now. The red cyan anaglyph version of the video can be viewed online however if you have suitable technology you can download the full HD version from the link below. A very early anaglyph version of this video that shows how far this has come will be available online soon.

• Download the half HD side-by-side version of the 3D video here.