NEO3DO New York City Product Launch

An amazing day of new friends, 3d professionals, educators and technologists!

We set up a round table with 8 tablets all preloaded with Awesome 3D Content

Many amazing stereographers and 3D hobbyists came out to check out the NEO3DO Tablet

Even some of the top 3D guys in the industry showed up.. want to know what they thought.. ask them :)

One lucky winner left with a NEO3DO and an ear to ear smile!! 

Thank you so much to the IMC LAB + Gallery for hosting our event, your space is beautiful!

Microsoft Excel goes 3D?

Yes, its true, Microsoft is giving Excel users a new way to explore data: GeoFlow. The technology, which sprang from a stargazing project at Microsoft Research, is capable of generating animated 3D visualizations on a globe or map powered by Bing Maps.

It might not be stereoscopic yet... but it will be!

GeoFlow allows data analysts to embark on eye-catching flyovers and flythroughs, where data points can sprout out from the landscape like skyscrapers. Not only does it provide a flashy alternative to 2D charts and graphs, GeoFlow can help users gain valuable new perspectives on business data says Microsoft

Microsoft's GeoFlow Preview is available now as a free download and requires Excel 2013

Conceptualizing NEO3DO ads

Inventory of NEO3DO will arrive in the coming weeks and I am working to create and conceptualize attractive and high converting ads in various pixel sizes all below 50k (google adwords max limit)

Here are a few of the first ideas!

NEO3DO ads, image ads, banner ads, ideas conceptualized, backgrouds,

Surgery in 3D: A leap in education

The Vancouver Sun online shared this video discussing the many benefits and difficulties in stereoscopic recording and playback of medical surgeries.

:57 seconds

Benefits - Great for education, best practices, hand eye coordination, spatial understanding, clearing out the surgery room and providing an additional dimension of comprehension.

Difficulties - very bright recording conditions and very little room

World 3D Film Expo - Rare Showings

The World 3D Film Expo will be holding its third festival of vintage 1950s three-dimensional movies at the Egyptian Theatre  in Hollywood on September 6th through the 15th. Among the programs being screened is a 3D Animation Show on Sunday September 8th at 11am.



See dual-35mm prints of all the 3D cartoons produced back in the golden age of animation: Boo Moon with Casper, Popeye The Ace of Space, Disney's Melody, Donald Duck in Working For Peanuts, Woody Woodpecker in Hypnotic Hick, Bugs Bunny in Chuck Jones' Lumber Jack Rabbit. 
The program will also include RKO's stop motion Motor Rhythm (originally produced for the 1939 NY World's Fair), the oddball stop-mo Adventures of Sam Space, Norman McLaren's Now is the Time, plus a few unannounced surprises. One of the surprises last time was a screening of the uber-rare Walt Disney's 3D Jamboree, a rare color Mouseketeers film originally made for showing in Disneyland. I hear they may show this again.

 More info click here

HP invents New Better BEST Glasses Free 3D ever!

There was some wicked buzz on Popular Science, Engadget, some newspapers and tons of blogs about HP making a breakthrough discovery related to glasses free 3D. It seems to be a nacent effort since the source files are not ordinary nor real time convertible, eye tracking is due for a facelift though maybe they got that right?

Good luck HP..

Glasses-free 3D for mobile devices Belfast Telegraph Researchers at Hewlett-Packard say they have developed a way to put glasses-free 3D video on mobile devices with a wide enough viewing angle to allow viewers to see objects more fully just by tilting the screen. See all stories on this topic »

HP develops glasses-free 3D Stuff.co.nz Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have developed a way to put glasses-free 3D video on mobile devices with a viewing angle so wide that viewers can see an object more fully just by tilting the screen. Glasses-free 3D is not unique. Nintendo's 3DS handheld ... See all stories on this topic »

Glasses-Free 3-D Display For Smartphones Shows Objects Floating Above Screen Popular Science ... much closer to their faces than they do their TVs. The Hewlett-Packard physicists also tried to make their screens viewable from many of angles. That's in contrast to some lab prototypes ofglasses-free 3D TVs, which don't work if you sit too far ... See all stories on this topic »

HP Labs builds a glasses-free, portable 3D display with wide ... Typical attempts at a glasses-free 3D display have trouble with viewing angles; we're all too ... www.engadget.com/.../hp-labs-builds-a-glasses-free-portable-3...

HP develops glasses-free 3D viewing of videos technology ... - Yahoo! 'HP develops glasses-free 3D viewing of videos technology for mobile devices' on Yahoo! India Finance. Washington, Mar. 21 (ANI): Hewlett-Packard Co. has ... in.finance.yahoo.com/.../hp-develops-glasses-free-3d-055607...

2 Days of 3D Google News

Below is a quick Google synopsis of news in 3D from Monday and Tuesday the 18th and 19th of March all with links. Enjoy!

New Tech Economy: 3D printing's promise in prosthetics USA TODAY (blog) SAN FRANCISCO -- While large businesses have begun using 3D printing and prototyping to streamline product development, tech hobbyists and other individuals are using the technology in revolutionary ways. One of them is Bilal Ghalib, a youthful product ... See all stories on this topic »

3D Printer Company Market Watch Seeking Alpha It is clear that 3D printing stocks are quite volatile, but with volatility comes opportunities. The stories of the 3D printing companies are only at the beginning, and in the few last years, the companies have started to show what they are made of and ... See all stories on this topic »

3D printing iPhone dock adapters tuaw.com A French 3D printing company by the name of Sculpteo has begun offering 3D printed iPhone dock adapters for third-party iPod speakers. The adapters allow users to use Lightning connector iPhones and iPods in older dock connector speaker systems. See all stories on this topic »

Sherlyn to shoot item song for 'Kamasutra 3D' Times of India RELATED. Actress Sherlyn Chopra will soon shoot an item song for her debut movie " Kamasutra 3D". Rupesh Paul, director of the film, said the song will be used as a promotional tool. "Yes, we do have an item number in the film, which will also be used ... See all stories on this topic » Times of India

3D-Printed Gun Maker Gets Federal License to Sell Firearms Mashable Defense Distributed, a project for open-sourced 3D-printable guns, obtained a federal license to manufacture and sell firearms. The organization made the announcement on its Facebook page Saturday with a picture of the license and a caption saying ... See all stories on this topic »

Doctor Who 3D film to celebrate the sci-fi show's 50th anniversary Mirror.co.uk Doctor Who is heading for another dimension – a 3D film to celebrate the sci-fi show's 50th anniversary. The movie-length episode will be shown at cinemas in Britain and around the world at the same time as it is screened on BBC1 in November. See all stories on this topic » Mirror.co.uk

Ace Attorney 5′s Heart Scope, 3D clue searches detailed VG247 The site also offers a few new screens showing of the 3D graphics which replace the franchise's traditional 2D offerings in this entry. As well as looking left and right around rooms and crime scenes, players will be able to look in and under objects ... See all stories on this topic » VG247

That makes two of us: How bioengineers are using 3D printing to create body parts South China Morning Post It was used to create haute couture dresses at January's Paris Fashion week, Valentine's Day chocolates in the shape of a person's face in Japan and, possibly soon - the European Space Agency is toying with this idea - a lunar base on the moon. The sky ... See all stories on this topic »

3D gunsmith gets licence to print and deal in arms Metro Gunsmith Cody Wilson has been granted America's first licence to make firearms using a 3D printer. The Texas law student will be allowed to produce and sell weapons built to order using the burgeoning technology. 'The big thing it allows me to do is ... See all stories on this topic » Metro

Where to find a 3D printer nearby SmartPlanet.com (blog) The demand for 3D printers is on the rise. But, if you don't have access to one, 3D printing can seem expensive and inefficient, holding back your design. Fortunately, out of this need is growing new innovation for making 3D printers available for ... See all stories on this topic »

3D Microprinter Builds Spaceship Thinner Than A Human Hair In 50 Seconds ... Huffington Post UK The concept of 3D printing is nothing new - but printing spaceships smaller than a human hair in less than a minute is. A company named Nanoscribe GmbH has produced a machine which can make hugely detailed sculptures in seconds. A realtime video ... See all stories on this topic »

Microsoft adds 3D scanning capabilities to Kinect bit-tech.net Moving the Kinect sensor around the object to be scanned, the system takes multiple snapshots and combines them into a single 3D object which can be imported into almost any 3D modelling application around. This object can then be manipulated in a ... See all stories on this topic » bit-tech.net

Ang Lee Joins 3D Creative Summit Variety The two-day international event, funded by U.K. industry body Creative Skillset and organized by higher education institute Ravensbourne and the International 3D Society, takes place March 27-28 at the British Film Institute's Southbank facility in London. See all stories on this topic »

3D Printer That Makes Microscale Models Is Now Commercially Available WebProNews This video shows a realtime recording of the 3D micro printing process by two-photon polymerization. We start with the CAD model of a Hellcat spaceship from Wing Commander Saga and use our 3D printer Photonic Professional GT to print a polymer model ... See all stories on this topic »

University of Birmingham, Public Housing Museum and a 3D Laser scan! ChicagoNow (blog) On Friday, October 19th, last year at the future site of the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM) on Chicago's west side, the University of Birmingham presented the museum with a 3D laser scan of the building as it currently stands. The NPHM is the ... See all stories on this topic » ChicagoNow (blog)

Gabelli Grows Positive on 3D Systems (DDD) Following Recent HQ Visit ... StreetInsider.com (subscription) Gabelli is growing more bullish on 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) following a recent meet-and-greet and tour at the company's headquarters with company CFO Damon Gregoire and IR director Stacey Witten. The company started coverage on 3D Systems at Hold ... See all stories on this topic »

Defcad: 3D Printing Means Unlimited Guns for Every American PC Magazine Will 3D printing impact our personal freedoms? Cody Wilson hopes so. The founder of Texas-based Defense Distributed, a non-profit committed to "facilitating global access to, and the collaborative production of, information and knowledge related to the ... See all stories on this topic »

3D scan of Stonehenge reveals hidden ax-head carvings CNET Stonehenge was given a complete 3D-scanning treatment, generating 850 gigabytes of data. Archeologists put software from Bentley Systems to work to analyze the data. The resulting data crunching showed 72 carvings depicting Bronze Age tools that had ... See all stories on this topic »

One Direction Reveals Title Of 3D Movie Hollywood Life Last month, One Direction teased us with the preview of their 3D movie event. Now, One Direction finally released the title to their new movie coming out on August 30. We were all ready to see it before, but now, we are even more excited! Drumroll, please! See all stories on this topic »

How Will 3D Printing Impact The Manufacturing Industry? Seeking Alpha The 3D printing industry is expected to change the landscape of the manufacturing industry over the next decade. The technology has been around since 1980s; however, more recently, it has come into the spotlight. Industry experts are extremely excited ... See all stories on this topic »

Updated Kinect for Windows software adds 3D scanning tricks Wired.co.uk The significance of the SDK version 1.7 is the addition of two new features for developers to get their teeth into: "Kinect Fusion", which transforms the device into a 3D scanner; and "Kinect Interactions", which opens up a set of new automatically ... See all stories on this topic » Wired.co.uk

Mercury Systems Applauds BAE on Successful ARTISAN 3D Naval Radar ... NASDAQ (press release) ARTISAN 3D radar is a leading-edge, maritime medium-range radar (MRR) designed to improve the performance of the Royal Navy's primary sensing capability, particularly when operating in a complex littoral, or shoreline, environment. The U.K. Ministry of ... See all stories on this topic »

Gun maker: Printing 3D gun parts a 'step toward liberty' PCWorld (blog) Technophiles have been playing around with 3D printing for years, but mostly just to make things like little statues or plastic trinkets. Now, however, it's possible to print items with the potential to leave more of an impact. Items like guns, for ... See all stories on this topic »

3D-printed gun maker Defense Distributed now federally licensed to make, sell ... ExtremeTech Defense Distributed, the organization known for being the driving force behind the 3D-printed gun movement, is now licensed to manufacture and sell firearms and ammunition in the United States. Over the weekend, the group posted a picture of the ... See all stories on this topic » ExtremeTech

One Direction Spills 3D Movie Deets & Tweet Title! PerezHilton.com One Directioners the world over collectively SWOONED today… Cause their favorite boyband announced the TITLE of their upcoming 3D documentary! And no, unfortunately it's NOT being called This Is What Makes Us Beautiful! LOLzzz!! Liam Payne ... See all stories on this topic »

3D Super Hang On Revving Up For Nintendo 3DS On March 27 Siliconera 3D Super Hang On Revving Up For Nintendo 3DS On March 27 Sega is reviving some of their arcade classics with 3D ports and a wealth of configuration options. 3D Space Harrier was pretty impressive and now Sega is focusing their efforts on Super Hang ... See all stories on this topic »

Sphere 3D Completes Alpha Testing of Surf to Go App for iPad GlobeNewswire (press release) MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, March 19, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sphere 3D Corporation (TSX-V:ANY) ("Sphere 3D" or the "Company"), developer of Glassware 2.0™ foundational thin client technology, is pleased to announce the completion of alpha testing ... See all stories on this topic »

3D printed skull Custom made skull points to the future Toronto Star The implant was built using a 3D printer — a hot new technology being used in multiple fields, from making guns to jewellery. The process, which works like an inkjet printer, slowly builds a customized shape by adding layer upon layer of material. See all stories on this topic » Toronto Star

In pictures: 3D-printed jewellery and artwork of Studio Mango Wired.co.uk Wired.co.uk felt that a collection of 3D-printed jewellery and objects by design agency Studio Mango deserved to be pulled from the web's deep pockets and thrust into the limelight. It's small team, split between the Netherlands and Hong Kong, designs ... See all stories on this topic » Wired.co.uk

3D printing turns models into reality R & D Magazine Graduate student Marc Miskin manufactured granular materials of various shapes in a 3D printer to test Prof. Heinrich Jaeger's research group examines materials and phenomena that appear simple at the surface, but which reveal tremendous complexity ... See all stories on this topic » R & D Magazine

US gunmaker gets license to manufacture, sell 3D-printable guns Financial Post Defense Distributed, an online community for sharing free, user-created 3D-printed firearm designs, announced Saturday it had been granted a U.S. federal firearm license to manufacture and sell 3D-printed guns. Founder Cody Wilson posted an image of ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Post

Brooklyn Architect Creates 3D-Printed Dress for Dita Von Teese DNAinfo Schmidt designed the dress on his iPad and then worked with Bitonti via Skype to create 17 uniquely crafted pieces and 3,000 joints. Shapeways, a New York-based 3D printing company, then printed the jigsaw puzzle of parts with hardened powdered nylon. See all stories on this topic »

Exceptional 3D arrives in Europe

A press release out of New York today by Exceptional 3D verifies what we have been suspecting for a few years. Exceptional 3D is at the top of the digital signage game in the US and will be expanding to support Europe.

Exceptional 3D has been a pleasure to work with for us ( www.3dfilmconnection.com ) with a great CEO and support staff, all high quality people easy to work with and communicate with. Best of luck to all Digital Signage pros in Europe. Exceptional 3D truly is a worthy partner.

Dont forget, display quality is high, you can run it on a CMS, run a 2D L wrap and the prices are.... Half of others? Any questions or comments please leave below the US Exceptional 3D display locations.



View Exceptional 3D's Active Glasses-Free 3D Networks in a full screen map

Infancy of 3D Tissue Printing

Interesting Video

First 3D Printed Dress to Flaunt Sexy Curves

3D Printing gets a little sexier as the furst fully articulative dress/gown is printed and put on some famous woman. It is said to have over 12,000 Swarovski crystals and — designers claim — follows the Fibonacci Sequence in the way it curves around a woman's body, in order to maximize its theoretical beauty. 17 distinct sections were 3D-printed by 3D-printing service Shapeways, with "thousands of unique components... in a flowing mesh designed exactly to fit Dita's body." 

We will be seeing many more made to fit 3D printed and magically elaborate gowns soon im sure!

Modi's 3D speeches during 2012 polls enter Guiness Book

The 3D broadcast of the speeches of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi during the 2012 assembly elections have entered the Guiness Book of World Records for being the most simultaneous Pepper's Ghost Illusions (the angled transparant screen for projection that was used for the Tupac show at Coachella last year) held at any given time. His 55 minute speech was shown in 53 locations across Gujarat. Nchant 3D wes mentioned as the provider of the 3D technology.

Modi went on to with the 2012 elections!

www. 3D OPEN .tv

Has anyone seen or used 3D Open? The website is void of information or scheduled shows. The fee is .99 per day, no free trial, no coupon code, no additional information. I am very interested to find out more if anyone has personal experience with the company or offerings. 

They contacted NEO3DO saying that "We might have an interesting business opportunity for you. We are owners of 3D OPEN, a 3DTV channel. We broadcast S3D side by side. Can your display recognize this and transform automatically to Auto Stereo? Maybe we can produce an app that you can use as standard on all screens? So your clients can actually watch a 3D channel? Please let me know if you are interested. We are based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Kind regards, Jasper Steenkamp"

What do you think? 

comment below

Glasses-Free 3D iPhone for $33??

Well.. you knew it wouldn't actually be a 3D phone right? Here we go, breaking down the multi 45 degree angle semitransparent mirrors and single opaque mirror at the back over an iphone (iphone 4 or 5) with content made to be spread across each surface to create a multi-layer miniature theatre experience.

Pied Piper or Palm Top Theatre is a prime example of a brilliant way to get people thinking and experiencing 3D. If it is a huge success then I am wrong in saying that it is going to be a flop. This is not the first time angular mirrors have been used to give a convincing 3D experience nor is it going to be the last.. Perhaps a good model for a multi projector 3D movie theatre.

It is good to see 3D portrayed in a better light, it has been almost 2 years since mashable has given any love it seems!

source for image and article - http://mashable.com/2013/03/10/3d-iphone/

Interview with SKY3D (John Cassy)

Wikipedia says
"Sky 3D is a 3D television channel on the Sky platform, that launched on 3 April 2010 with the Manchester United vs Chelseafootball match being broadcast in over a thousand pubs across the UK and Ireland in 3D.^[1] On 1 October 2010, Sky 3D became available to residential subscribers.^[2][3] The channel broadcasts a mixture of movies, entertainment and sport for 16 hours a day from 09:00 to 01:00 GMT.^[4][5]

To promote its 3D channel, Sky broadcast a documentary programme titled Flying Monsters 3D presented by prominent naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough on Christmas Day 2010.^[6] Sky has also agreed deals with Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., Paramount andDreamWorks to showcase all of the studios' new 3D films, including the 3D world premiere of Avatar.^[2][7] Sky also filmed a Bollywood dance routine at St Pancras railway station in 3D as part of a partnership between Sky Arts and the English National Ballet.^[2] Sky is also working with Nintendo to provide shortform content from Sky 3D to the Nintendo 3DS.^[8] In April 2011, Sky announced that Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite World Tour would be shown on Sky 3D in June 2011.

Sky 3D has also been used by other broadcasters such as A+E Networks, Discovery Communications, ESPN Inc.and MTV Networks to broadcast their own 3D programming.^[9][10][11] During the 2012 Summer Olympics, Sky 3D provided coverage from Eurosport, with the channel temporarily made available to all of Sky's HD pack subscribers for the duration of the games."

During a recent interview John Cassy the head of Sky3D and techradar John was asked..

And have you actually seen a glasses free 3D television that impresses you?

Cassy: I have, but it's under NDA so I can't talk about it! For my mind, high quality glasses-free TV at a price that the average house can afford is a matter of when and not if. It's going to happen, it's just a question of when and the technology we see - we have as much of this as we can - is definitely coming along. It's a bit of a way off but it's coming along.

article here - http://www.techradar.com/

What could he have seen? Hmm.. 

• Stream TV's 4k glasses-free 3D TV   
• Dimenco's 4k glasses-free 3D TV
• NEO3DO glasses free 3D Android tablet
• Some Dolby 3D Display?

Nintendo SLAMMED in court for 3D patent infringement

Last month former Sony inventor Seijiro Tomita sued Nintendo for infringing on his patent for a glasses-free 3D display. Today, Rueters reported that a federal jury in New York found Nintendo guilty.

Defense attorney Scott Lindvall maintained that Nintendo's 3DS didn't use key aspects of Tomita's patent and that Tomita was only one of several vendors selling 3D technology that Nintendo met with in 2003.Initially Tomita requested that Nintendo pay $9.80 for every 3DS sold however he settled for $30.2 million, instead of the over 200 million he wanted. 

The jury didn't buy it.

"We are thankful to the jurors for their diligence and hard work," Tomita's attorney, Joe Diamante concluded. "It has been a honor to represent Mr. Tomita and to protect his invention."

As 3D grows I think we will see many more instances of successful products infringing upon patents. 

How Do I teach my student ... the ipad answers

http://edtechteacher.org/ a fantastic source for many things, this page of questions I found to be very very helpful in identifying the questions asked and the objectives of ipad self education as it currently is available on iOS

iPad Learning Objectives

1. I want my students to record and edit video on their iPad. 
2. I want my students to record and / or edit audio on their iPad. 
3. I want my students to read class content on their iPad. 
4. I want my students to annotate course readings on their iPad 
5. I want my students to be able to read audio books on their iPad. 
6. I want my students to use iPads as a digitial notebooks / note-taking devices. 
7. I want my students to use iPads to share and demonstrate their understanding through screencastsscr.
8. I want my students to create presentations on their iPads. 
9. I want my students to create digital stories on iPad. 
10. I want my students to be able to study with iPad. 
11. I want to use the iPad as a student response system. 
12. I want my students to create written content on their iPad. 
13. I want my students to blog on their iPad.
14. I want my students to create ePubs / iBooks to read on their iPad.
15. I want my students to create and edit images on the iPad.
16. I want to use the iPad in order to create a language lab environment for my students.
17. I want my students to use the iPad to stay organized.
18. I want to use the iPad to conduct video / virtual conferences in the classroom
19. I want to control my computer or Interactive White Board from my iPad.