Here is Our 360° Visit to 元氣貓主題樂園 (Genkicat Cat Cafe in Taipei). The Phillips Family and friend had a visit to our favorite Cat Café in Taipei, Genkicat – https://www.facebook.com/genkicat – a fun restaurant with a ton of cats for visitors to get to know. While there are a variety of cat breeds in evidence,…
In this brief instructional review video, Brian David Phillips discusses the VR-Park Bluetooth Controller which you can get from http://www.gearbest.com/electronics-gadgets/pp_294504.html. For more about 3D/VR/AR/360° Taiwan, head on over to https://www.facebook.com/groups/taiwan3d and join us. In Taiwan and wish to join a Meetup? Check out the Taiwan Virtual Reality Meetup at http://www.meetup.com/tawanvirtualreality and join us for live…
Here we go, an experiment in spherical 360° photography. I know, the editing’s not perfect. As this is a proof of concept piece, I did not take the time to fix the still images to blend the exposures a bit nicer. This is just a fun bit of what-have-you. Video and photos taken with a…
Yes, this is very much on the kind of neat side of things . . . you can create the illusion of depth in your animated gif files by adding a couple vertical lines and then editing some layers so that some elements seem to pass through. Yes, it’s a bit more work . .…
Want someone to love you deeply with all their heart and soul forever and beyond? Here you are . . . the PHEROMONE PHERMENTATION method, the complete protocol for pheromone-based attraction conditioning. So . . . watch this video and learn exactly how to perform the AMAZING and totally fictitious but based partially upon actual…
This video is for the folks who – like me – have become frustrated recently about the 3D player from Youtube. We love 3D but there have been issues of late. This video goes over some of the issues and provides some workaround solutions for a few of them so you can enjoy 3D –…
Rev. Dr. Brian David Phillips discusses Interactive Drama – Freeform Theate Style Scenario-based Live Action Roleplaying Games – with beginning notes on what they are, how to play them, and how to create them. Interactive Drama is a formal term used to refer to theatre style LARPs. Just for fun, this video was shot in…
Rev. Dr. Brian David Phillips discusses critical and theoretical approaches to Interactive Drama – Freeform Theate Style Scenario-based Live Action Roleplaying Games – with an emphasis on formal analysis rather than recreational play. Interactive Drama is a formal term used to refer to theatre style LARPs. Just for fun, this video was shot in 3D…
Here’s a short slide show of images from various Interactive Dramas – Freeform Theate Style Scenario-based Live Action Roleplaying Games – performed/played by the Taiwan Interactive Theatre Society, Taiwan’s longest-running theatre style LARP troupe. Just for fun, this video was shot in 3D and can be viewed in 2D or 3D, just choose the appropriate…
The band Washington Irving http://www.washingtonirvingband.com has a rather delightful music video for the song Palomedes which plays with autostereoscopic effects as the video is presented as a good ol’ fun Magic Eye moving stereogram. Just relax your eyes so that there is a wall eye effect and gently relax and concentrate until you get the…
Welcome to Sort of True Story Fun Time . . . sit back and enjoy a traditional tale of THJAZI, LOKI, SKADI, AN INVISIBLE ROPE, A GOAT, LOKI’S TESTICLES, A VERY STRANGE GAME OF TUG-O-WAR, SOME GOLDEN APPLES, and special guest appearances by Thor, Odin, Idun, Njord, and Many Others. Be sure to let Marvel…
As many of you know, I teach the first half of the Advanced Hypnosis Theory course at the Hypnosis Practitioner Training Institute – HPTI – (www.HPTI.org) with Scott Sandland who does the capstone portion of the course to finish out the program. Additionally, I also teach the Critical Thinking course for the same program. One…
Martin Scorsese has confirmed his preference for shooting future films in 3D during a speech at the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas in which he spoke of the need to solve the ongoing problem of darkened screens. Scorsese, whose most recent film, Hugo, was shot in stereoscope, spoke after new laser-illuminated projection technology was demonstrated…
James Cameron’ 3-D team, behind the worldwide success of 2009 sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar", is being tapped to assist in shooting "The Art of War", a film about ancient Chinese strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu. The cooperation was revealed Saturday in Beijing by organizers of the 2nd Beijing International Film Festival. The agreement is expected to…
Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee have both made 3D movies, but the esteemed directors offered different perspectives on the burgeoning film technology at a panel discussion this week in Las Vegas. Scorsese has fallen in love with 3D, telling an audience at the CinemaCon theatre owners convention on Wednesday that he expects to use the…
The effect called “frozen time” or “bullet time” is achieved, when a moving object is photographed from different angles at the same time from many cameras – a so-called camera array. The resulting pictures are combined together into a film or animation afterwards. If e.g. someone jumps and the pictures are taken in the moment…
As part of the ongoing coverage of the ongoing centennial of the American Civil War, the Atlantic has a very nice collection of stereographs from the period (these are parallel 3D photographs). Click on the images to see a clever wobble 3D presentation as well. Go to http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/the-civil-war-part-3-the-stereographs/100243/ for the feature. – Brian
The folks at Digital Darkroom have a wonderful 3D film on 3D photography that is very much worth the looksee. While the gallery presentation is in excellent circular polarization, the online version is in anaglyph (red blue glasses). It’s online in its entirety so give it a looksee at http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/video-gallery/digital-darkroom/2. All the best, Brian
This is a rather intriguing music video by the band Mint Julep, the song To The Sea, shot in wobble or wiggle autostereoscopic 3D. The video requires no special viewing equipment as the shifting camera perspective creates the illusion of 3D. See http://www.aniceideaeveryday.com/video/mint-julep-ii/ but please be forewarned that if you have epilepsy or other similar…
Once again, I would like to thank everyone who attended and participated in the WALKABOUT TRANCE BEACH RESORT GETAWAY THREE and EROTICATRANCE TWO events in beautiful Redondo Beach, California, this past weekend. I am finally home after what was supposed to be a fifteen hour flight suddenly turned into a twenty-and-a-half hour flight as heavy…
Phil “Captain 3D” McNally, stereoscopic supervisor at DreamWorks Animation, is a guest on the Home Theater Geeks Podcast with Scott Wilkinson and talks about why he thinks 3D is here to stay after several previous attempts to bring it to the market, why people have such strong opinions about 3D, the difference between real-life 3D…
The folks at CubanMidlifeCrisis have created a quirky proof of concept 3D music video for the song Shuriken by Madeon that shows that such a video works beyond the more typical let’s watch someone play instruments in 3D model with a narrative and some nice fantasy and can be accomplished with relatively inexpensive equipment (one…
Huzzah! It looks like one of my favorite adult movies (yes, I have favorites) is getting a remake! The adult musical version of Alice in Wonderland is getting a remake that just may even be in 3D! Yes, there was a musical version of Alice in Wonderland that was also XXX porn. One of the…
Giving a bit of a test a go of our 3D youtube videos . . . these are the ones shot in true 3D. Checking the list here. On youtube they play in a variety of 3D formats, depending upon what you have available for viewing . . . or, you can select no 3D.…
It’s not that I really need to see this movie . . . nope, not at all . . . but . . . and this is a big but, almost as big as those big butts some folks love so much they have to sing about it . . . like I was saying,…
