Scott Fisher

Whoa - an iphone app to make stereo images!

Also appears to be some new iphone apps that turn the iphone into a MAXMSP or Arduino controller:

This page contains lots of great iPhone apps, including an app that turns your iPhone into a Max/MSP controller, an app that simulates a scrolling LED banner on the screen of your iPhone, as well as many other projects that illustrate Mr. Akamatsu's interesting approach to software hacking on consumer electronic devices. This approach is also reflected in the many interesting Max/MSP objects he has created, perhaps the most famous being his object that interfaces the Wii Remote with Max/MSP.

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From Engadget:

"We've never really gotten the knack for video chat. Either we're bothered by the lack of eye contact, freaked by the uneasy silences or just way too ugly, but whatever it is we're sure the Minoru 3D Webcam is going to make it all much more immersive and difficult. Featuring dual cameras spaced about a face-width apart, Minoru creates a stereoscopic effect for viewing with old-school red and blue 3D glasses. The camera supports all sorts of video chat services, or you can shoot 3D video and shuffle it up to YouTube, and 2D is also available for all the squares out there. Minoru's currently competing in the CES Innovations competition, and should be hitting shelves in December at a sub-$100 pricepoint".

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OK, I know Scott G. already posted about the 3D Filmfest starting tonight and running for 10 days (!) at the Egyptian. But wanted to add some context for all the stereopaths out there:

This is a follow-on to the first 3D Expo held here in 2003 that Professor Hoberman and I frequented often - In fact I think Perry sat through something like 17 films including one whole weekend from dawn to dusk .

Here are some press blurbs for this year's show:

All told, 35 features and over 20 short subjects will unspool at the Expo. In addition to the various feature films, we will be premiering several 3-D short subjects, including the long lost cartoon, "Popeye, Ace of Space", as well as "Hawaiian Nights", Carnival in April", "Owl and the Pussycat", and many others.
The new prints of the 3-D features and shorts have been coming in from the film labs and they look tremendous! "Taza, Son of Cochise" looks like it was shot yesterday; a stunning new print. And "Those Redheads From Seattle" looks BETTER than the original dye-transfer prints did in 1953! These 50 year old negatives are holding up remarkably well, allowing us to show them properly, in 3-D, for the first time in over 50 years.

Check out some of the shows of stereo animation - highly recommended.
List of Special Guests who will do Q&A after the shows after the jump:

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Our friend Daisuke OKABE just showed up from Docomo House bearing this most remarkable gift: Konami's new Metal Gear Ac!d 2for the PSP with a stereoscopic viewer. Nice.

More images here and a discussion on 1up.com with director Shinta Nojiri here.

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