CJG Omar Mohamed Balfaqeeh
3D Technology
What is 3D technology? Well, it is basically seeing motion pictures on screens in a 3 dimensional state. This technology has revolutionized how we watch movies, TV, video games. This technology has multiple uses in which helps in many different ways. To have a 3D image it has to have height, width and depth. The beginning of the 3D technology can be traced way back to 1844, where David Brewster could take 3D images with his invention the Stereoscope. With further development the stereoscope was used widely throughout the world. With further developments to the idea the first public 3D movie was produced in the year 1922. "The late 1920s to early 1930s saw little to no interest in stereoscopic pictures" (3D Film Wikipedia). However it was in the year 1935 that the production of a color 3D movie have taken place. In the years that followed there was not as many developments in the 3D technology due to the wide spread of the TV in at the time.
The "Golden Era" of the 3D technology was in the 1950s. In this time the industry bloomed and was beginning tomspread even more than before. In the 1950s the there were many 3D movies being made, however, not all of the movie theatres had the capabilities to screen 3D movies. The year 1952 witnessed "the release of the first color stereoscopic feature" (3D Film Wikipedia). Most of the major production companies started releasing 3D movies which were getting a lot of recognition. Although the 3D films were a huge hit, the business started to decline during August and September of the year 1953. Many reasons led to that decline. One of which was that to view a 3D film the two cameras being used to screen the film must be in sync, and if one of them was out of sync the film was not suitable to watch. Nevertheless 3D films made a comeback in December of the same year with major movie oroductions. But still yet again the industry suffered severe setbacks in the spring of 1954 due to the same issues faced before.
The 1960s witnessed the release of Space-Vision 3D a new 3D technology which was not like the technologies before because "it required a single projector with a special lens" (Enciso, W. 2010). This technology was much easier to use because it only needed one camera and not two. In the 1970s the Stereovision was invented. This new technology was used for years coming but it it's quality was not far better than the previous versions. In the mid 1980s grew to new heights as IMAX started producing many non-fiction movies in 3D. Then going on in the 1990s numerous 3D were being made, of which was the huge hit "Into The Deep". "Wings of Courage" was the first fiction movie of the IMAX 3D. During this time and in the new millennium IMAX 3D theaters were gaining big likings. "By 2004, 54% of IMAX theatres were capable of showing 3D films" (3D Film Wikipedia). From the beginning of the 2000s until now there were huge developments in the 3D industry. Today we have many 3D TVs and video games. 3D technology took a new step towards being the most popular way to watch anything and hand held gaming consoles began to have the same thing. It is amazing to see how over the years the technology developed from mere pictures to the big things it is right now, fighting through ups and downs but eventually adapting and becoming a very big thing in our lives.
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