Steve Kelley, Director of Software Engineering Third Dimension Technologies
Steve Kelley with Third Dimension Technologies presented a paper entitled " Initial work on development of an open Streaming Media Standard for Field of Light Displays (SMFoLD) " at the…
Walt Husak, Director Image Technologies, Dolby Laboratori es
The JPEG-PLENO group has many active members working to understand how video-based multi-camera images can be captured and encoded for transmission to a range of 3D displays including…
Samuel Robinson, VP Engineering, Holochip Corporation
The number of 3D media applications is growing exponentially and each application has its own set of required visual depth cues. Many of these applications call for high fidelity…
Jamison Daniel, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Data visualization technologies and high performance computing continue to evolve at a disruptive pace. The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at the Oak Ridge National…
Although the core principles of Light Field imaging were discovered more than 100 years ago, it’s only been the last ten years that this amazing technology has progressed to the point of…
Nilo Maniquis, Naval Sea Systems Command, Program Executive Office (PEO), Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS)
The accelerated pace of today’s battlespace requires military leaders to build strategies and make decisions in a much shorter timeframe. The speed of war requires assessments and…
A light-field display projects 3D aerial imagery that is visible to the unaided eye (without glasses or head tracking) and allows for perspective correct visualization within the…
This presentation will quickly review what was accomplished in the 2016 workshop then discuss the goals and objectives for the 2017 workshop. Simply put, the workshop will review the…
Matthew Hamilton, Systems Engineer, Avalon Holographics
Light field and 3D displays have existed for some time, but have yet to reach full mainstream adoption. However, newest developments provide reason for optimism. In this talk, we will…
C. E. (Tommy) Thomas, PhD, Founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Third Dimension Technologies (TDT)
Interest in 3D viewing has grown significantly over the last few years with the resurgence of Virtual Reality (VR), the future promise of Augmented Reality (AR), and the hastening pace…
Market analysts predict that a multibillion dollar shift toward immersive forms of media and displays will unfold in the early 2020’s. Media, and our ability to interact with it, will no…
Jon Karafin, CEO and Founder, Light Field Lab, Inc.
This presentation will explore the hardware specific benefits of MPEG's standardization efforts for ORBX and vectorized holographic formats, as well as articulate the downstream light…
The Air Force Research Lab at Wright Patterson Air Force Base hosted a workshop in November 2016 that brought together military, government and intelligence users and developers of…
Insight Media and Third Dimension Technologies organized an all-day workshop on Oct. 28, 2016 in conjunction with the Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) annual…
We had a great workshop. Over 90 industry leaders signed up for the SMFoLD workshop and attendance was high. The discussion was lively and many ideas were floated. We heard back from a…
A new workshop on streaming media will be held on Fri., Oct. 28 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, following the SMPTE® 2016 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition (SMPTE…
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