Sony Unveils the World's Smallest 3D Camera

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9009pc said:

Hephaestos said:

greenmedic88 said:

It sounds like you don't have to physically move the camera; the lens physically adjusts to accomodate multiple viewing angles within the same frame of reference, but from a fixed point of perspective.

For those who aren't clear on what that means, think of "bullet time" photography in reverse. Instead of taking multiple shots of a single frame of reference from multiple reference points in sequence, the camera shoots multiple shots from a single reference point (you don't move the camera physically) from one viewing angle, just as normal vision would.

The upside is, you can "turn" an image shot in this fashion on any 2D display. In other words, your single frame of reference has in effect multiple viewing angles. I've seen QT VR files that simulate the same effect.

That data should be enough to produce a 3D image when viewed on a 3D display.

One eyed dudes don't see 3D... and normal vision has 2 origin points

put one hand over one of your eyes. now tell me you can't see depth because I can. let me explain why. I can tell when one object ends and when one object starts. from this my brain can calculate the size of the object. from this object I can then calculate the distance of all other objects based on the size. other features like light, also play apart. also when I move my head (like this camera) I see the object form different angles. yeah sure with one eye closed it is slightly harder to tell how far an object is compared to when I have both eyes, but to say that with one eye you can't see depth just isn't true.

well I suppose they wouldn't be able to see a 3d image of screen but all other things I am sure they can.

being used to object sizes and identifying depth from this is not seeing depth... try putting a patch on your eye for a few days then go play catch a ball with a random sized ball... you'll see that you will most often than not catch it with your noze.

Do you think the camera knows the size of the objects in order to calculate their depth? nope, thus it can't calculate depth or distances...