These glasses have been, of course, standard issue for any theater-goer wanting the full stereoscopic visual experience. In many ways, they're iconic, especially the cheap cardboard frame versions. But that's the beauty of the 3D cinema experience! Everyone's wearing silly-looking glasses, so you don't feel like a complete tool.
The question we're out to ask in this podcast, though, is this: can the 3D experience work on a mobile device?
To get an answer, I phoned up Atanas Gotchev, a senior researcher in the Department of Signal Processing at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland. Gotchev's team is part of a European push to develop an entire 3D platform for mobile devices. That includes creating 3D content, pushing it down a dedicated wireless TV signal (DVB-H), and creating a handheld receiver to display it.
The European Commission is putting around two and half million dollars toward the project. I caught up with Dr. Gotchev in Paris, where he was attending the Dimension 3 Expo. He started by telling me that while pushing 3D cinema technology is hot in the United States, in Europe, they're focued on getting mobile 3D up and running. Click here to download the podcast, or use the player below:
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