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3-D technology televisions, coming your way on Virtual-Tripping.

By Mark on April 24, 2010

So as we continue to move forward, technology is continuing to grow and for some like people out there they are finally now able to watch television in 3D, this means that once you put your glasses on you will start to discover a different world in 3 dimension, as characters, picture will come out towards you. Imagine watching your favourite soap on tv, but it is in 3D, you will feel that you are in the soap itself. So if you favourite show is based in a bar or down the shops, or fields, rivers, forests, old fashioned houses, or past true life stories, you will be there even if it is in space or under the sea, you will feel like you are there, it is a really fasinating experience, if you are able to see 3D, unfortunately, not everyone can, due to eye disabilities. So for people with these problems technology should try and help them out.

So where did this technology begin, well lets go back to 1844, when a Scottish inventor and writer David Brewster, produced a Stereoscope, it was a machine that could take photographic pictures in 3D  a device that could take photographic pictures in 3D. Then a French instrument maker, inventor, and pioneering photographer, Louis Jules Duboscq and a famous picture of Queen Victoria, it was displayed in The Great Exhibition in 1851. But it was not until the Second World War, when the stereoscopic (3D) cameras, became popular and fairly common.  So has the progression of 3D pictures and images were being created in cameras, then they decided to start creating movies. In 1855 the Kinematoscope, camera was created it was a Stereo Animation Camera. Again we had to wait until at lweast 1915 to 1922, when the first ever anaglyph movie was produced, that was in 1915 and then in1922 the  first public 3D movie was displayed – The Power of Love. Technology continued to grow and by 1935, the first ever 3D color movie was produced.

But the one thing that surprises me is that it has really taken along time for 3D movies especially to really get going, in the 1950′s in the United States of America, here are a few of the films that were created in 3D in the fifties they are Bwana Devil in 1952,  House of Wax in 1953,  Dial M for Murder an Alfred Hitchcock original and in 1947, the Russians produced Robinson Crusoe in 3D their first ever full length film. Then after alittle it hit local television and dramas, documentaries etc were tried out in 3D.
So what is a 3D television, well it is a television that has special techniques of 3D presentation, including stereoscopic capture, multi-view capture, or 2D plus depth, and a 3D display—which helps to show a television program in a realistic three-dimensional field. 3D episodes became moderately popular in the late 1990s when several shows in the USA used the technique to attract viewers and increase ratings. But do not forget you will still need to wear your 3D glasses, but there are televisions being created where you will not need your 3D glasses, as seen in the video below. Lots of big movies today are starting to use 3D, including movie companies like Pixar, an animation company, George Lucas and Star Wars in 3D and other films like, Jaws in 3D, Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 3D and Clash of the Titans in 3D including Toy Story in 3D, it is all coming and of course the big film at the moment Avatar in 3D, so one day everyone of us will probably need A 3d television.

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