Panasonic steps up 3D camera tech for virtual world tours
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 12:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org)—If you can't afford a world tour's price of air tickets, hotels, and meals this year, know that Panasonic has worked up technology to bring the world to you. Its system is titled "DIVE into World Heritage 3D," and it was demonstrated at Digital Content EXPO 2012. This system put five 3-D cameras to work to shoot, and the display was via five HD plasma panels. "Imaging technology is progressing every day," Masaru Kojima, manager of Panasonic's Content Planning Center, told his interviewer. "Today we're using full high-definition, but in the future pixel counts are likely to grow, as well as the size of the displays themselves." Panasonic wants to be the "leading edge," he said, as those kinds of devices become available.