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The Archives
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02.18.09Microsoft, 3D Cameras, and Virtual ConferencingMicrosoft is in talks to purchase 3DV Systems for $35M, a purchase that would give it access to a 3D camera - a very similar product to that being developed by Mitch Kapor. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the move would give Microsoft a competitor to the Nintendo Wii controller, but with a difference: no controller required, the camera works entirely through detection of body motion: "3DV Systems develops "virtual reality" imaging technology for digital cameras that it sells, called ZCams (formerly Z-Sense). Its main targets are the gaming market ("enjoy a genuinely immersive experience," the company says on its Web ...
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04.14.08Mitch Kapor’s 3D Camera – Look Ma, I’m All Hands!Video demo of the 3D camera that detects body movement to control your avatar in Second Life. I can imagine all kinds of applications for it - virtual boxing and, um, other sports come to mind. It may also add a deeper level of expressiveness to events, performance, and more than anything give people a chance to exercise who otherwise have sore shoulders from a 12 build marathon. Um. But what if you have to scratch your nose?
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03.24.083D Camera in the Works at StanfordJust when you thought you had finally mastered your digital camera, the time may come when you'll have to toss it in the garbage and learn to use a 3D camera. Stanford University, always at the cusp of technological advances - in fact, creating those very advances - is developing a 3D camera that will document not just the 2D photo of an object, but a three-dimensional 'depth map' of the surrounding objects, what they are calling a "kind of super-3D." The camera would use a "multi-aperture image sensor," which is a fancy way of saying that the camera will have multiple ...
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