openKMQ

STAR WARS EP 1 trailer in trueColor3D

2011-11-07T03:10:00.000-08:00

Wow! One of my early adopters of trueColor3D uploaded a version of the new trailer that plays on both the iPad and with normal LCD screens as well as laptops using the mighty over/under viewer KMQ. And it is also compatible to normal YT3D playing (with some letterbox borders)

watch on iPad

Gorgeous Women 1

2011-10-07T03:47:00.000-07:00

I uploaded a slide show with depth-painted 3D stills made by the Youtube user XtraDefinition3D aka XD3D on flickr

Gorgeous Women in trueColor3D for over/under viewing

Preparing trueColor3D compatible xXx samples for a local adult entertainment show

2011-09-28T03:37:00.001-07:00

There are several online video websites who already provide 3-D porn as VOD.
Some decided to support downloads of clips that only play on Windows PCs with NVidia 3DVision and either a 3DTV or 3DLCD 120 Hz and shutter glasses.
Some don't care about preserving colors. They provide anaglyph photos and videos only.
None of them support Mac, none support mobile devices with color preserving methods.

That's why I downloaded some xXx sample clips from 3Dxstar.com and converted them to trueColor3D compatible formats.

I hope to meet some innovative porn producers on the VENUS 2011 in Berlin/Germany to bring adult content to the exploding realm of mobile web.

With the cheap and simple viewers (KMQ for tablets and stereo goggles for smartphones) there's a new market segment.

Contact me privately to get links to the clips.

Another bugfix for trueColor3D on OSX

2011-09-25T11:05:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry to say, but instead of making the version for Windows and Linux available, I found out about another bug and decided to first fix it.
Therefor, we now have version 0.99 on OSX that you can find here for download.

And, since last week the source code is hosted on the open source sharing/colaboration platform github

The LIKE ME button had to go as well

2011-09-13T07:25:00.000-07:00

After spending hours to apologize by email and to move my group memberships away from Y! I also remembered a german privacy protection policy and decided to kick out the Like me on Facebook Button/ iFrame.
The link to my Facebook group is still availbale for you to join in, but the tiny, harmless looking thumb-up icon had a severe "behind the scenes" activity.

Goodbye to Yahoo!

2011-09-13T06:59:00.000-07:00

I had a Yahoo! ID for over 10 years and it was convinient to access emails and addresses online the first years. But then with the first redesign of the UI and me using Firefox on windows and Linux problems popped up all around.

I then decided to tell new contacts only my new non-Y! email address and to gracefully fade Yahoo out ...
Bad idea!
My account was hacked and all my long term and old contacts got trojan emails in my name linking to dozens of suspicious Wordpress-like-seeming pages.
I got hundreds of MAILER autoresponses (good to know those had a working SPAM blocker) but also family and friends asking why I started to advertise VIAGRA.

I hereby honestly appologize to all readers you might have been spammed as well!
Please remove my yahoo address from your address book and contact me as PixelPartner.
I dropped all Yahoo! related stuff and hopefully in the next 90 days all will be removed.

And obviously I changed password after making sure the URL is not a phishing site.
That's something I always do and explain to others / non-programmers in detail. So I'm very sure not to be a victim to phishing but a bruteforce hacking victim.
That's why I finally left the Y! cloud.

The new blogger UI doesn't work on iPad at all

2011-09-13T06:41:00.000-07:00

If you also like to surf and blog with your iPad I suggest not to try the new blogger user interface.
It's a nightmare and I wonder if they have deliberetly worsen the iOS experience to make Android/chrome shine.

3 new 3D trailer clips using the trueColor3D concept

2011-09-08T06:52:00.000-07:00

One of my trueColor3D users already uploaded trailer clips modded for viewing on tablets and normal LCDs using the superior over/under method (aka KMQ) :Tin Tin Conan Happy Feet 2

Bugfixes for trueColor3D on OSX (version 0.98)

2011-08-30T09:57:00.000-07:00

Download version 0.98 (OSX) or 0.94 (Win) from my DropBox :
OSX 32-bit binary (v0.98),
Windows 32-bit binary (v0.94)
Source code only (v0.98),

Pinkau Entertainment brings its showreel to trueColor3D

2011-08-30T08:21:00.000-07:00

With the help of trueColor3D 0.97 on OSX the following variants have been converted and uploaded to vimeo :
for 3D smartphone goggles (like the Hasbro my3D or the TOYin3D)
for tablet devices (like the Apple iPad using an over/under viewer)
for laptops and any normal LCD (also using the over/under method).

Find out more about the german team of Thomas Pinkau.
They also have a Youtube3D upload (unfortunately only a distorted, aka frame compatible version).

I hope to also find trueColor3D version on Youtube soon.

Update of trueColor3D on OSX

2011-08-23T13:35:00.000-07:00

After having some trouble with the libav parts used in ffmpeg, I found workarounds and now proudly present version 0.96.
I recently only worked on OSX Lion, so for now only the OSX binaries are available.

This version is the first to run without AviSynth, the very powerful, but Windows-only video post processing toolbox.

It outputs clips that can either play YT3D downloads for home use using AirVideo, or to upload your own work to Youtube (yes they play on iPad and iPhone, here are some examples from a beta tester) or even vimeo. You can also use it to prepare 3-D podcasts (testing) or clips to embed in iOS Apps to sell on the Apple AppStore.

Email me, if you need the new features also under Windows that is currently on version 0.94.

Download the source code here.
Download the binaries for OSX here.

Make sure to install both trueColor3D and qt-faststart as well as a decent version of ffmpeg in your path.
I recently explained how to install/build ffmpeg on OSX.

If you find this tool useful, please recommend it and consider opening a flattr account.
My project related tweets are from @openKMQ3D and use the hash tag #trueColor3D.

New trueColor3D movie trailers

2011-08-15T13:11:00.000-07:00

You can watch these with over/under viewers or prism glasses on other normal LCD screens or on tablets that play video in portrait mode (like the iPad).

If you surf on iPad, you migth want to switch to the Youtube App and find the user 3DoniPad. I could not figure out best bandwidth parameters, so the image quality of the App is better than the following embeds.

Despicable Me

watch on iPad

The following clips seem to show swabbed views!
Wear the prism glasses with the prisms pointing to you.

Smurf

watch on iPad

Puss in boots

watch on iPad

KungFuPanda

watch on iPad

SeaRex

watch on iPad

How to prepare your website to play HTML5video on all major browsers

2011-08-10T01:42:00.000-07:00

On twitter I came across this link and the open source project to add video/audio tags to older but still widespread browsers:
http://html5media.info/
It's really just a single line of HTML code to add to the HEAD section of your webpages.

How to get ffmpeg to run on OSX

2011-08-09T12:26:00.000-07:00

ffmpeg is a so called command line tool for audio/video file conversion and processing.
It's an open source project and parts of (depending on its configuration) it are not allowed to be redistributed in binary form without also providing the full source code.

For now, I suggest you take the time to download some free tools and source codes and to start the so called build process on your Mac on your own.
To build ffmpeg configured with all the parts needed to serve as trueColor3D's processing engine, you need

- XCode from the Apple MacAppStore
- The MacPorts project http://www.macports.org/
- FFMpeg from it's source code repository

You may need to launch the Terminal.app and type in and launch some commands.

1) Install XCode (should be free for Lion and just $3.99 for SnowLeopard).
2) Download the port command from the MacPort project and follow the instruction to build it with the gcc compiler tha came with xcode.
3) type in sudo port install ffmpeg and enter your admin/root password to download and build and install the ffmpeg program.

Puss in boots3D

2011-08-05T06:57:00.000-07:00

I found this on Youtube. It was uploaded by one of the first users of trueColor3D, my open source tool for 3D video clips.

Watch it either using the Youtube 3D player or directly on anon-FLASH tablet device like the Apple iPad.

trueColor3D now also runs on OSX

2011-08-02T03:24:00.000-07:00

First trueColor3D only ran on Windows, because it strongly depended on the AviSynth audio/video scripting environment that is tricky to run on non-Windows machines.

I started to reprogram many of the conversions from AviSynth to only use video filter commands in ffmpeg.
This is the first result.

On OSX, the following old/new stereo-layouts are supported :

Youtube: my3D, iPad (over/under 1080p)
Vimeo: my3D, iPad (over/under), PC (over/under)
home use: my3D, iPad (iTunes), iPad (AirVideo)

Download version 0.95 from my DropBox :
Source code only (v0.95),
Windows 32-bit binary (v0.94),
OSX 32-bit binary (v0.95)

Free 2D to S3D conversion software

2011-07-26T05:55:00.000-07:00

Find more information on the author's project page http://www.Gimpel3D.com/

ADRI EV stereoscopic music video for iPad and other tablets

2011-06-16T21:32:00.000-07:00

Watch this on a tablet device locked to landscape, but oriented to portrait using one of the over/under viewers (KMQ, jpsOneEye or BerezinOneEye).

ADRI EV MUSIC VIDEO (iPad3D over/under) from Thomas Kumlehn on Vimeo.

This video was created with my open source tool trueColor3D

The creator is Gyro Tod for Kimera Productions.

New way to upload 3-D for iPad to vimeo

2011-06-13T15:04:00.000-07:00

Me and many viewers don't like the way, vimeo degrades videos with a width below 1280 to SD quality bitrate. For normal widescreen content that's fine, but not for our special portrait over/under layout. I experimented in the past with rotation, scale to bypass this, but either vimeo degraded the content or the iPad refuses to play it, becaue it was regarded too HiRes.
Today I found a new way by omitting black borders on the top and buttom and by rotating to the right. So, clips originating on 16:9 can now be uploaded as 1280 x 1040. Viewed with an orientation locked to landscape and held as portrait, this results in 1040 x 586 per eye and a 108px gap. And this layout fits both the vimeo and the iOS size restrictions.
I hope to soon reupload in the new format, but for GRilli3D fans there is still no alternative to view from "Download".

New tags for Youtube 3D

2011-06-13T13:03:00.000-07:00

Andrew Murchie's overview of the new Youtube 3D tagging.

So now, you can simply upload a trueColor3D made over/under (aka iPad3D) clip of 768x1024 to Youtube and tag it with
yt3d:enable=RonL

This way, it plays on all FLASH-enabled browsers in selectable 3D modes, also plays on iPad using the KMQ or compatible viewers and can be used with StereoPlayer and NVidia shutter glasses.

What's left ?
Okay - for smartphone support you still need an undistorted side-by-side version like the my3D with 1280x480px, also made with trueColor3D.

And for glasses-free viewing on iPad, we still need the GRilli3D1024 layout.

Cross eye 3D tutorial on Youtube

2011-06-13T07:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBa-bCxsZDk&hd=1

More and more openKMQ clips on Youtube

2011-06-13T07:42:00.000-07:00

If you either type in "openKMQ" or follow this link, you will find a growing number of over/under (KMQ) compatible videos. For now, most of them are made by Andrew from EnhancedDimensions. Thumbs up!

Samsung shows 2560x1600 tablet display prototype

2011-05-15T09:19:00.000-07:00

http://pentileblog.com/

Looking for 3-D content to co-market on iPad3D/iPhone3D

2011-05-11T00:41:00.000-07:00

I'm currently preparing some Apps for the Apple AppStore and the Android market place. They will bring the first payed and DRM protected trueColor3D content to all smartphones (using Hasbro's my3D or a Lorgnette) and tablets (using the openKMQ over/under method). The concept includes instruction videos, embedded credit webpages and can either show a single 3-D video, a group of them with HTML5 title menu or even a slideshow/gallery of themed stereo pairs.

Please contact me by email, if you are interested to also sell your 3-D content.
The concept is based on open source and will become an open source framework, but obviously, your final product will be closed source.

If you want to use trueColor3D with Windows7 64bit ...

2011-05-08T04:40:00.000-07:00

Download the new build AviSynth 2.6 with MT that seems to better work unter win7/64.

Alternative 3D-FlashPlayer - much better than YT3D !?

2011-05-08T04:03:00.000-07:00

I was contacted by the german developer of p2gStereoStage(tm) and after visiting his site, I think it's a well done alternative to YT3D, especially because it also supports KMQ(over/under) viewing. It's free for private and non-commercial use but costs 1200 EUR per domain for commercial (even AdSense supported) websites.

Here are the links to the viewer:
english
german
french

Did some of you work with HOLOBLADE (tm) ?

2011-05-08T03:59:00.000-07:00

I found out about another less known and "old" technique, called HoloBlade.
Is there any interest in the community to add support for HoloBlade to trueColor3D ?

New Update available for trueColor3D - with my3D support

2011-05-03T08:53:00.000-07:00

Please visit the original, but updated blog post to find the download for release 0.94.

What is better for viewing on next gen 3DTVs - SBS or OU?

2011-04-27T13:26:00.000-07:00

I recently was asked, what method (and format to use) to upload a 3D clip to vimeo.

My answer was :
Let the visitor decide and upload several clips. As a PLUS user simply use your monthly volume to upload one clip per viewing method and then use descriptions to crosslink them.

Variants to upload :

Keep including an Anaglyph version.
Many viewers still assume anaglyph glasses are the only 3D glasses available.
But please add a title and a cover pic that mentions other variants available and don't forget to mention WHAT filter colors are needed in their anaglyph glasses..

trueColor3D made my3D layout as 1280x480 or bigger in height,
as 480 is the minimum height for any video on vimeo
and 1280 is the minimum width to grant HD bitrate/quality.

trueColor3D made Over/Under (KMQ) layout to let viewers enjoy all the colors on any LCD and even see an undistorted image with naked eyes.

trueColor3D made GRilli3D verticalled interleaved layout for use on glasses free iPads

Please also provide a Download of a 1280x720, frame compatible 3D video.
Please don't use side by side, like most do, but over/under, because the next/better generation of 3DTVs and many 3Dmonitors use passive glasses and the xPol polarization technique.
This cuts vertical res down to 360 per eye anyway and by using SBS, the viewer ends up effectively seeing 640x360 per eye of your content, instead of 1280x360, even when the display itself claims FullHD 1920x1080(2x540).

Using "Johnny Lee"- like head tracking on iPad2

2011-04-12T05:44:00.000-07:00

on Youtube

TOSHIBA goes glasses-free 3DTV

2011-04-12T05:41:00.000-07:00

German blog article about future glasses-free smart 3DTVs from TOSHIBA.

Why Peter Jackson shots 3-D with 48 frames per second

2011-04-11T23:54:00.000-07:00

Not only James Cameron is a fan of shooting strobe-free higher frame rates. Peter Jackson is capturing THE HOBBIT (1+2) in double frame rate 3-D using dozens of RED EPIC cameras.

Link to Peter Jackson's Facebook page with details, how and why he does so.

Update for trueColor3D to version 0.93

2011-02-25T23:23:00.000-08:00

Please visit the edited original blog entry.

trueColor3D becomes flattr-ware

2011-01-16T06:03:00.000-08:00

I decided to make trueColor3D my first "flattr"-ware. That means, it's free and open source, but users who want to thank and encourage me may use this new micro donation system. It' s like a donation flat rate for the web. You donate 2€ per month and every "thing" on the www with a flattr button can be clicked once. The creator of that thing then participates on this. I suggest you use this as well for your 3-D content. Visitors can then say "thank you" to you as well. My upcoming but much bigger tool StereoBookMaker will be flattr ware as well.

New vimeo channel for trueColor3D on iPad1 with GRilli3D autostereoscopic lenticular sheet

2011-01-10T13:08:00.001-08:00

Find an autostereoscopic version of the ECC/Home of 3D 2010 demo reel on the new vimeo channel openGRilli3D.
It was made with the version 0.92 of trueColor3D.exe

First trueColor3D stereoscopic slide show on vimeo

2011-01-07T01:33:00.000-08:00

This video was created handing 129 stereopairs and captions over to the new program StereoBookMaker (SBM). SBM can also create dozens of true color 3-D booklet layouts and stereocards from this data set. Its Windows version is coming soon.

Many thanks to the Stereo-Photographer Eberhard Gehrke for providing pictures and text.

TrueColor3D Channel Kickoff

2011-01-05T14:14:00.000-08:00

To encourage vimeo plus creators to bring their recent or new 3-D content also to vimeo using this method and channel, I managed sponsoring to ship starter kits to the first 50 registered. The kickoff starts now and ends end of march.
Here's the channel link http://vimeo.com/channels/openKMQ3D.

Register by eMail. If you don't like the method or decide not to upload content until april 5th, simply return the kit or you will receive an invoice end of april.

There's a simple reason, why you must be a vimeo plus user to participate. To provide a high bandwidth quality, most of the videos should provide a download of the original source. Vimeo uses a simple but outdated method to differentiate SD from HD content. Not the resolution (pixel count) but simply the line width. Therefor the streaming version of openKMQ compatible (764x1020) of My3D (960x640) content only gets a bandwidth of 2Mb/s instead of 5Mb/s they would need and deserve.

How to embed over/under clips in your blog posts

2011-01-01T05:29:00.000-08:00

For embedding over/under vimeo clips in blog postings, I personally prefer the following settings for my narrow blog layout :

In the src= parameter, edit the options in the vimeo URL to
?title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff

and for the iframe parameters, use these values
width="400" height="650" frameborder="0"

First clip made from DualFullHD content available on vimeo in trueColor3D

2011-01-01T04:35:00.000-08:00

For my Berlin based friend Paul Stutenbäumer, I converted his demo reel to the new channel on vimeo, using over/under true color stereoscopic viewing instead of legacy anaglyphs.

But I encountered some pitfalls in the vimeo internals.
If you upload a video 768px wide, vimeo ignores the height and assumes it's an SD european clip that needs non square pixel treatment. Fair enough, but this cripples XGA portrait mode clips optimized for iPad use.
And to achieve HD quality bandwidth, a video needs 1280px width or wider. This sucks as well. Again, vimeo ignores the height.

So if you want your clip to be watched on vimeo including iPad users, please use a slighty smaller res of 764px x 1020px and encourage your viewers to download the original video for optimal local play or import to the iPad Photos App.

And please ask vimeo staff to change the policy ignoring height for bandwidth decisions.

Beta release Win32/OSX of the openKMQ 3-D video converter (aka trueColor3D.exe)

2010-12-23T12:21:00.000-08:00

For all Windows 32-bit and OSX (64/32bit) users willing to give the new application a try, feel free to download the zip archive from my DropBox account and install it together with ffmpeg and AviSynth (not on OSX).
It converts your own or downloaded side-by-side and over/under videos to be viewed with openKMQ or GRilli3D.

Download version 0.99 (OSX) or 0.94 (Win) from my DropBox :
OSX 32-bit binary (v0.99),
Windows 32-bit binary (v0.94)

The source code is available at github

I have downloaded some trailers from YouTube using firefox/greasemonkey and the userscript "YouTube HD Suite" and now I can watch them full color on my iPad1.

For me the EXE works fine and the later conversion produces both files to upload to vimeo, view 3-D on any 2D display - and iPad as mentioned before.
It also has an option to stream your 3-D content from PC/Mac/Linux using the AirVideo App (the free version handles up to 3 movies in your folder - should be enough for a day and then you replace them with others). For all who already have received a GRilli3D lenticular film for iPad, this is also supported, but I couldn't test if I ordered L/R the right way ;-) Please test drive and swamp me with errors (hope not) and suggestions (hope yes!).

Merry Christmas and a Happy new year.

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Update:
From version 0.92 on the program is called trueColor3D.exe
From version 0.93 on also GRilli3D for iPod and ACER 3D laptops are supported.
From version 0.94 on also my3D and Lorgnette on iPhone4 or iPodTouch4 are supported. (see sister blog openMy3D.

From version 0.95 on, also OSX is supported.
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Here are sample out files to play in true color 3-D on iPad
For over/under and for GRilli3D glasses free .

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And here is the link to the first new vimeo channel for "3-D true color openKMQ videos" and the experimental vimeo channel for "3-D true color autostereoscopic videos for GRilli3D (iPad1)".

Developing a conversion tool to create openKMQ compatible videos

2010-12-21T02:03:00.000-08:00

Right now I'm figuring out ways to convert side-by-side videos (either frame compatible or not) to the openKMQ format that directly plays on vimeo and also on iPads.
My goal was to create a true cross platform application starting with Windows, Linux and OSX and so I decided on using the GPL ffmpeg for processing and Qt for the user interface.
Unfortunately some video filter functionality vital to my approach are not released yet.
So I will first implement a variant using AviSynth and a ffmpeg config enabled to work with avs files.

Features to be implemented first:
Play 3D videos directly either with a DirectShow compatible player or ffplay using tiny avs script files.
Convert those downloaded 3D videos so that the new files can be imported to your iPad3D for offline viewing.
Convert 3D video edited with the new breed of 3-D capable editing tools VegasPro, MAGIX, etc to be played full color on vimeo

Later
Also support conversion to My3D compatible videos.
as well as the new 3df33d video portal
Port to OSX and Ubuntu when the needed features in ffmpeg become mature.

Please comment if your see need for more to be added

Animated short "Elephants Dream" rerendered in 3-D

2010-12-06T18:51:00.000-08:00

Watch it on vimeo in full color over/under 3-D.
Unfortunately the video is not prepared for iPad3D as it's full res and stacked with a tiny gap.
But it works for manual over/under viewing.

Elephants Dream 3D - stacked version from datenwolf on Vimeo.

Update: The short film was awarded the first price at the European 3-D Film Festival. My congratulations to Wolfgang Draxinger and the original Blender Foundation team.

Apple goes 3-D with Haspro on mobile devices

2010-11-10T01:46:00.000-08:00

Haspro announced that early next year it will sell My3D, a plastic "viewmaster"-like viewer to plug on an iPhone or iPod touch to watch side-by-side video and play 3-D games. Content providers like Dreamworks will follow as well.

I very much hope for iPad they will go the over/under route :-)

YT 3-D video introducing to over/under photo books (german)

2010-11-10T01:42:00.000-08:00

Richard Hebstreit's 3-D interview with me on YouTube

openKMQ videos can be hosted on vimeo

2010-11-10T01:29:00.000-08:00

Vimeo is less restricted in terms of aspect ratio and resolutions than YouTube.
So many vimeo contributors have uploaded not only Anaglyph 3-D videos but also side-by-side up to 4K (3840x1080). Since yesterday, you can also see my first over/under video (768x1024 XGA portrait) optimized to play on iPad in full color 3-D and on any LCD in fullscreen mode (switch scale to ON) either landscape or rotated to portait. Silent 3-D Test video (Berlin fleemarket)

New accounts for twitter and facebook

2010-10-30T04:00:00.000-07:00

I've decided to migrate to the new Facebook Group feature.
The new group is called openKMQ3D.
And accordingly I also added a similar twitter account.

The new 3Dvideo service 3dfeed now also supports openKMQ

2010-10-21T00:37:00.000-07:00

Find details here.
The openKMQ mode can be set under Preferences -> other modes -> "Prism Glasses"

What is the optimum viewing distance for the KMQ prism viewer?

2010-10-20T03:00:00.000-07:00

The mirror based over/under 3-D viewers can be manually adjusted to fit most viewing distances.
With the prism viewer KMQ SSG1b, its fixed optical spreading of left/right eyesights (19deg) means that you have to measure the vertical distance of the stereo pair and then multiply by 4.5 to get the optimum viewing distance (paper or screen to viewer).

bino - A new stereoscopic player for LINUX

2010-10-13T08:37:00.000-07:00

Visit the bino start page

New low cost 3-D mirror based viewer (over/under and side-by-side)

2010-10-13T08:20:00.000-07:00

(Image by Berezin.com)
I have not tried it yet, but it looks like a low cost alternative to the already reviewed jpsOneEye, I strongly recommend.

How to create 3-D videos in the openKMQ, open over/under layout

2010-09-09T01:00:00.000-07:00

If you want to also convert your private videos to openKMQ layout or want to upload them to vimeo, please use this layout.

Such a video plays on any LCD in fullscreen mode (VCL can play on portrait mode displays), even iMacs, iBooks, iPad, iPod Touch 4, iPhone 4. For the 960x640 displays of the 4th gen iPhone/iPodtouch you need a special viewer not yet released.

UPDATE for vimeo content:

If you upload a video 768px wide, vimeo ignores the height and assumes it's an SD european clip that needs non square pixel treatment. Fair enough, but this cripples XGA portrait mode clips optimized for iPad use.
And to achieve HD quality bandwidth, a video needs 1280px width or wider. This sucks as well. Again, vimeo ignores the height.

So if you want your clip to be watched on vimeo including iPad users, please use a slighty smaller res of 764x1020 and encourage your viewers to download the original video for optimal local play or import to the iPad Photos App.

My new free conversion tool trueColor3D will automatically take care of that, from version 0.92 on.

Play your 3-D Bluray content on any device

2010-09-07T22:42:00.000-07:00

Until recently you could play 3D Blurays only on very expensive 3DTV sets with a 3D enabled player and 3D shutter glasses.
That changed when the website biohemmet.se described a way and provided a tool to extract the content of your legaly owned discs to left/right movies to also play on StereoscopicPlayer or with the NVIDIA 3DVISION solution. But even this needed expensive hardware. From this version of 3DBDBuster on, the tool will also offer conversion to the new openKMQ video format as described recently. This opens 3D viewing to any LCD using the over/under viewing method with either the prism viewer KMQ SSG1b or the mirror viewer jpsOneEye.
Find a link to this solution on the right hand column.

New design for the iPad stand

2010-08-20T01:05:00.000-07:00

The improved design comes with the following features :

now also supports the jpsOneEye first surface mirror viewer

use an elastic to secure both viewers

an optional light shield and a black blanket to cut off reflections from the glossy iPad screen.

How to allow fullscreen mode for webpages on iPad

2010-07-30T08:00:00.000-07:00

If you want to design your webpage to use the full screen of the iPad, please consider this blog entry.

Just added the iPad kit to instructables.com

2010-07-29T09:36:00.000-07:00

Here is the PDF.

Here is the Instructable page :

Full color 3-D viewing stand for iPad - More DIY How To Projects

Intro video for the openKMQ kit for iPad (german)

2010-07-29T01:19:00.000-07:00

There's a blog report with video about the openKMQ kit for iPad (sorry folks, german only).
(Source: Danniil Matzkuhn / tblt.de)
Straight to the YouTube 2D video.

New tutorial how to do S3D with Blender

2010-07-27T04:32:00.000-07:00

Berlin based Sebastian Schneider did a very welcome online tutorial Stereoscopic Rendering in Blender. I hope to get him on the openKMQ bandwagon soon ;-)

Please create content like this ...

2010-07-27T00:52:00.000-07:00

These renderings are done with VRay/3Dmax by a Berlin based artist.

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Inspirational S3D work by 3D viz pro Bertrand Benoit, one of the early adopters of openKMQ.
Read the recent interview with the artist.

New german blog

2010-07-26T14:32:00.000-07:00

With the help of Christian Henkel, the openKMQ project now also has a german blog page.
We will try to keep both communities informed simulationsly.

New Logo and groups in twitter facebook and flickr

2010-07-25T10:08:00.000-07:00

Thanks to PR pro Christian Henkel, openKMQ now has a logo and can be joined, liked and listened to via the above social networks.
Come and join in.

First KMQ book since 1983

2010-07-23T06:32:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine allowed me to publish a nice 3-D documentation of a railway bridge beeing replaced. I wrote a program called "StereoBookMaker" to solve this task.
Using SBM you can create your own 3-D books/cards/iPad-Galleries using many different presentation methods. Obviously my favorite 3-D viewing method still is KMQ(over/under), but others are supported as well - excluding all color distorting methods (no Anglyphs!!!)

Here you can preview and order the books : epubli

Why does the new "any LCD" kit have 5 holes ?

2010-07-22T08:00:00.000-07:00

An early adopter asked me about the 4 small extra holes in the laser cut acrylic frame of the new kit. Yeah - I forgot to mention that this design is also meant to be mounted on strings infront of over/under paintings and big 3-D prints inkjetted to canvas. Remember - the bigger the picture pair, the bigger the sweet spot distance to view from with the KMQ viewer.
As a local printing service in Berlin/Germany for fine art digital canvas printing I recommend Whitewall.
I'm still looking for digital artists and stereo photographers to exhibit their work in this all new form.

I recommend a bag for the new "iPad 3-D" stand

2010-07-20T11:24:00.000-07:00

After traveling to amsterdam for the BLENDER Foundation sponsor/team screening of their new short DURIAN/Sintel I realized that I need a proper and good looking bag for my 3-D stand. And it should have space for my accessories and the iPad as well.

I went to a local shop for designers and sculptors and found this:

Manufacturer: RUMOLD
EAN-No 012108155700

I bought it for 17,90 EUR in Berlin at modulor

openKMQ Kit for any 2D LCD screens

2010-07-17T07:35:00.001-07:00

Again: You can either download the laser cutting vector files or order a precut kit from my website.

openKMQ proudly presents : iPad 3-D

2010-07-17T07:18:00.000-07:00

Okay, anyone with a KMQ prism viewer can use any LCD in portrait mode to view full color 3-D, but as the viewing distance (the sweet spot) is important, I decided to design a comfortable stand for my Apple iPad. Like all other kits it's laser cut, but it's the first kit made of HDF (high density wood fibre) . Visit my website for more pictures and to download the vector files.
You may also order a precut kit, if you don't know a laser cutting service nearby.
On the other hand, if you know one, feel free to become a kit provider yourself.
I've prepared some 3-D movies to watch on this baby. The trailers for Avatar/Shrek4/Tangled were downloaded from 3D Vision Blog and I used the compositing app eyeon FUSION to produce the over/under layout (right on top).

Over/Under aka KMQ compatible web videos

2009-09-03T07:40:00.000-07:00

Dr. Peter Quick recently kindly provided PDF documentations how to create 3-D videos in Adobe Flash CS3 that can be viewed with the KMQ prism viewer.
Download the english or german PDF from the projects web site.

Advanced Design - "one-size-fits-all-heads"

2009-07-14T03:14:00.000-07:00

The first openKMQ design was sized for big adult heads and flexo bands could be used to make it fit smaller heads. The next step was to provide 3 different sizes with every kit.

Now a single layout has 8 slits to place the KMQ prism viewer in.

The new design will soon be available for free download as EPS/SVG for laser cutting or in my online shop as precut kit

New DIY Kits for download and to buy

2009-05-08T08:39:00.000-07:00

The Kit1/2 packages I designed last year came with laser cutting layouts to produce three different sizes, but the sold kits were shipped with the biggest (one-size-fits-all).
The download area now also has a kit1b and kit2b with three sizes and the kit2b extends kit2 by a second WiiCage. You can now place your WiiRemote on top of your LCD or on your desk.
The shop also brings the new (b) versions with washable foam strips for the optional head rest fixtures.

Alternative over/under viewing device

2009-05-08T08:34:00.000-07:00

Mathew Orman from polish/american Tyrell Innovations Inc. has designed and markets a viewing device that uses adjustable first surface mirrors.
This overcomes two flaws of the KMQ viewer : its fixed spreading angle and its prismatic effect.

Find more here:
http://tyrell-innovations-usa.com/shop/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&product_id=32&category_id=6&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=4

FlipStereo.net - a new S3D web service

2009-05-08T08:31:00.000-07:00

FlipStereo.net the new web service that can take almost any stereo image on the web and presents it the way you like, also supports over/under (KMQ/jpsOneEye) viewing.

New Web2.0 Stereo gallery also supports openKMQ (over/under) viewing - http://www.flipstereo.net

2009-04-02T04:29:00.000-07:00

Find a beta-version running here :

http://www.flipstereo.net/site/viewer?url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/turbguy/3318579108/in/pool-stereo&mx=738&swi=&im=leftright&sbase=0&sep=0&zoom=1.4&om=overunder&mon=1&my=304

This is what the developers told me :
>>>>>
I have not yet added instructions in the wiki for using it. so here is some basic instruction:

1. In the "Image" secition you should see a grey box.
2. the picture may take some time to load. till then you will see only 2 white boxes.
3. there is light grey bar on top of the image section. Place you mouse over this.
a tool box area should slowly appear. click the "Fullscreen" button on the top right corner.

4. the whole flash content should appear fullscreen on your screen.
5. you can change "separation" to bring the images closer ( or further) in any mode.
6. I have tried it with the glasses and separation has to be set just right for my screen.

Preparing a Kit3 with additional Wiimote-Stand

2009-02-13T07:12:00.000-08:00

Inspired by wishes from the Wiir3d folks, I designed an other kit that adds an extra Wii-Remote cage to also place it infront of the screen and not only on top of it.
It will also include a second, extended set of glasses holders. For persons with a bigger eye to ear distance than the ones in Kit2.

New Free-Track version

2009-02-13T07:09:00.000-08:00

Free-Track project (version 2.2) now supports Wiimote head tracking and more games.

UK based eShop stands up as kit provider

2009-01-31T04:29:00.000-08:00

The eShop http://shop.robomotic.com joins as a precut kit provider for the United Kingdom.
Contact Paolo di Prodi for details or visit his ebay auction
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170302277255
He sells the kit with a DVD that contains latest freeware tools for head tracking games (Free-Track.net and Wiir3D) as well as tools for viewing Stereo3D stills and videos.

We have been blogged by pro's !

2009-01-31T04:25:00.000-08:00

The project was mentioned on a well known blog of creative designers and "makers" in NY :
http://brepettis.com/blog/2009/01/30/make-stereoscopic-glasses-with-dynamic-nintendo-wii-mote-tracking-the-openkmq-project/

Convert a dual screen to an affordable hiRes stereo LCD

2009-01-18T23:25:00.000-08:00

I recently built my first DIY Over/Under LCD. Instead of placing two LCDs side by side, I mounted them on top of each other and added a constant distance KMQ holder.
For normal work, I still have the real estate of a dual screen. And for S3D viewing I simply pull down the KMQ holder and place my forhead on a soft cushion.
It needs some optimization because the panels are best viewed at from above, not from center level. When modified, I'll post images and a DIY instruction PDF.

KMQ viewer is available in the USA again

2009-01-18T23:14:00.000-08:00

Good news for the project ! One of the best known US web shops for stereoscopic tools http://www.berezin.com now also lists the SSG1b KMQ viewer - the main building block for the openKMQ project. This means, US artists, students and S3D-Photographers don't have to worry about international shipping and import taxes.
I very much hope, Steve Berezin also joins in as a provider for the platic kit components. The more requests he gets, the better ;-)

2009-01-05T01:05:00.000-08:00

More KMQ-compatible software

2008-07-28T02:32:00.000-07:00

GQView3D is a stereo image viewer for Linux and also supports the KMQ-type over/under layout.

advanced Kit2 layout

2008-07-28T02:30:00.000-07:00

with the new openKit2 laser cutting files, version 0.9, we now need two different plastic sheets.
Most parts are still cut from 1mm PET sheets, one is cut from 2mm Acrylics to be more ridgid for Wiimote use.

Ready for NAB

2008-04-15T00:08:00.000-07:00

According to NAB reporters, Avid is working on a stereo workflow with over/under layout.
See details here: IT Broadcast and Digital Cinema/3D
For now I could not figure out, if it uses KMQ compatible RightEye on top layout or not.

the second software package to be listed

2008-03-25T11:45:00.000-07:00

Karl Lilje extended his great stereoscopic paint program stereoPAINT-ESP with basic KMQ support.

http://www.zenratai.com/software/stereopaint/index.htm

Note: this cool app has some of its user interface in the stereo area !!!
I hope that other developers do so as well.

Online - at last

2008-03-21T15:43:00.000-07:00

Finally the projects page for overview, download and list of intl. providers (currently it's just me) is online. It took long because it's part of my own website that was based on MS-FrontPage (designed 10 years ago) and my ISP recently kicked out the CGI-EXEs needed for its webbots.
So I had to port several functions to python.
With IE6 it looks still odd.

Delays going online

2008-03-13T23:34:00.000-07:00

I'm still having trouble going online and also need to do pack shots of the kits and to document their composing and usage.

After laser cutting 6 prototypes, early adopters received first openKMQkit2 samples

2008-03-11T07:40:00.000-07:00

Version 0.6 of the open hardware add-on to the long prooved prism stereo viewing device from KMQ was realeased.

This marks the begin of the first of (planned) three project phases :

providing a free basic hardware design
adding fixed distant stereo viewing to as many open source and commercial 3D apps.
merging the superior technologies of KMQ and WiiRemote by implementing headtracking true stereo AppGUIs and a Combiz desktop interface.

Samples have been sent to early adopters who want to extend their applications with high quality / low budget Stereo3D viewing.

Enthuisiasts are invited to spread the news, do coding and enhance/manufacture/sell the hardware designs.

Find more at http://www.PixelPartner.de/openKMQ.htm (sorry - to be online end of this week).