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Oct 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Michael Goldman
Chicken Little, Monster House, the upcoming re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Meet the Robinsons, and other 3D projects in various stages of production all indicate that 3D digital exhibition is getting more practical. That's partly thanks to the maturation of QuVis' 3D Acuity and Cinema Player technology — new versions of which have been infiltrating theaters and post facilities in recent months.
While the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) is still evaluating potential 3D playback standards, QuVis feels it has achieved consistent playout, enabling realtime recording and editing of two separate source images, and then storing them as a single file on a single server capable of frame-accurate, synchronous playback as a single, editable file.
“The ability to handle both streams, and keep it all locked together and compatible with new digital projectors, allowing stereographic imagery to be exhibited with a single projector and a single server in the same fashion as 2D digital so that left-eye and right-eye are coherent, has large implications,” says George Scheckel, QuVis' VP of digital cinema. Scheckel expects to see an opening of a modest 3D feature film floodgate in coming months.
“Leading filmmakers and companies like Real D and Sony, Walt Disney Pictures, and Walden Media are driving the creation of these movies, and our technology is facilitating their ability to preview and exhibit them,” he says.
