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Researchers Develop Ghost-Free 3D For Viewers Not Wearing Glasses

You know that sad feeling you get when a headache’s coming on while watching a 3D movie and you remember that you can’t actually take the glasses off for a few seconds of relief because the ghosted 2D...

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Oculus Rift Porn Is Frankly Terrifying

And you thought the people in real porn had dead eyes. The above image comes from a DIY porn game/experience built specifically for 3D headset Oculus Rift, giving players the ideal hands-free...

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The BBC Might Be Done With 3D But Virgin’s Not Giving Up That Easily

While the BBC might be abandoning 3D broadcasts and productions for the foreseeable future, Virgin Media isn’t yet ready to wave the surrender flag out of the screen. It’s increasing the amount of 3D...

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Flying a Drone With the Oculus Rift Looks Absolutely Immense

The Oculus Rift has spawned all sorts of truly amazing and innovative uses, most of them gaming or, well, porn, I’ll admit. But controlling drones with the 3D headset has to be the future of warfare,...

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A Clock That Conceals The Time Until You Find Its Sweet Spot

Inspired by the seemingly random clouds of data points recorded when a performer’s wearing a 3D motion capture suit, J.P.Meulendijks’ Mocap clock requires just the perfect angle to interpret the time....

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Skype Has 3D Video Calls Working “In the Lab” But is Unsure About a Public...

While Nintendo and the BBC are ditching 3D for the forseeable future, Microsoft’s Skype messaging tool is looking to embrace the tech at some point with bosses claiming it’s been experimenting with 3D...

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This Impossible Software Can Make 3D Models From a Single Photograph

It was predicted that computer graphics would one day give everyone the ability to create their own blockbuster film. But the software used for modern visual effects is still pretty complicated for the...

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Holy Crap — I Can Draw Freehand in 3D?

3Doodler caused quite a stir at the IFA trade show in Berlin last weekend, and it’s easy to see why — who doesn’t want to draw in 3D? It’s a genius and simple idea reminding me of a glue gun, but a tad...

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Why Do We Live in Three Dimensions?

How come we live in 3 dimensions? Not 2, not 4, not 7.3, but 3? Is there something special about that number of dimensions? This video tries to explain. While there’s no obvious answer—it’s kinda just...

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A Swarm of Drones 3D-Mapped the Matterhorn in Stunning Detail

Future versions of Grand Theft Auto—at least those set in Switzerland—could include a detailed and incredibly accurate 3D model of the Matterhorn for thrill-seeking gamers to explore, thanks to a swarm...

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Stick Yourself in the (Holographic) Beatles at London Music Museum’s 3D Exhibit

A new music-themed museum in London will bring the Tupac-reviving holographic technology to the masses, letting music fans play alongside 3D recreations of bands and singers — then go home with a DVD...

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Stan Lee Explains Why 3D Movies Suck

It’s not that 3D movies aren’t worth watching because some totally are (see: Gravity). It’s that Hollywood loves to shove it down our throat as something new and fancy and some sort of advanced...

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Take And Share 3D Images Like It’s No Big Deal

What we experience in real life isn’t enough, so our digital lives are becoming more and more 3D. iOS 7 has parallax, movies want you to feel like you’ve been hit in the face with a satellite, and lots...

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Zero Point Is the First 3D, 360 Degree Movie for the Oculus Rift

People have been working on video and explorable environments for the Oculus Rift, but Condition One, the immersive videography group, is upping the ante with a complete 20 – 30 minute movie all in 3D....

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This Screen Can Display 2D and 3D Images at the Same Time

With most 3D TVs you’ll see a headache-inducing double image unless you’re wearing a pair of polarising or shutter glasses. But researchers from the Shirai Lab at Japan’s Kanagawa Institute of...

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3D Virtual Birth Simulator Uses Mother and Baby’s Actual Measurements

Although the field of childbirth has remained pretty stagnant as far as fields of medicine go, it’s been making some major strides in recent months.. Though unlike other recent techniques, this newest...

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Explore the Lumpy, Bumpy Martian North Pole in this 3D Video

You’ve probably never lent Mars’s northern pole a great deal of thought, but you can explore it in wonderful 3D glory in this ESA video. Created by ESA’s Mars Express, the team behind it explains what...

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How do Computers Translate 3D Worlds Into Pixels?

Computers love to think in triangles to create 3D representations of the real world—but how do you represent those intelligently constructed objects as flat 2D shapes on a screen? This video describes...

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Sharp 8K Glasses-Free 3D Eyes-On: Future is Hard

Sharp has been showing off an 85 inch 8K TV for years, and now the company is taking absurdly high resolution to an ambitious new level with a prototype of an 85 inch 8K TV with Dolby glasses free 3D....

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From Dream to 3D Reality: The Fascinating Origins of Pixar

Before a story about toys, before monsters went corporate, before anyone went searching for Nemo, and before twenty seven Academy Awards, Pixar was a high-end computer hardware company whose clients...

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