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CES 2013: Dolby Demonstrates 4K Glassless 3D TV [Video]
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/ces_2013_dolby_demonstrates_4k_glassless_3d_tv_video
Television makers and the entertainment industry as a whole has been trying to cram 3D viewing down our collective throats (or eye sockets, as it were -- apologies for the unpleasant visuals), but having to don a pair of sometimes goofy looking goggles hasn't proven popular. The other problem with 3D TVs is that they're often limited to strict viewing angles. Sit just a little bit off axis and the 3D effect goes out the window. It doesn't have to be that way, as Dolby demonstrated at its booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Yep, THAT Dolby, the one that's known for sound.
Reporter extraordinaire and Online Editor Jimmy Thang had a chance to demo Dolby's 4K glassless 3D TV, and sure enough, the 3D effect was preserved when viewing the screen from an angle.
For the technology to truly shine, Dolby said it was best if the content was 3D to begin with, rather than trying to upconvert 2D footage into 3D. The ability to upconvert is there, it just won't be as good as native 3D content.
If you're thinking this is the same technology used in Nintendo's 3DS handheld console and similar devices, think again. Those devices are single-viewer gadgets that, as mentioned above, requires a direct line of sight with the display. Dolby's technology is called Multi View Glasses Free 3D, which is exactly what it sounds like. An algorithm runs in real-time and converts the stereoscopic 3D input signal into a Multi View signal, Dolby explains.
What's equally interesting here is that Dolby is primarily known for audio, not video. Dolby feels it's mastered the audio space, and the next logical step was to dive into video. The company has already developed some professional products in the video space, such as digital video cinema servers, a professional reference video monitor, and more, and is now ready to focus on the consumer end.
Dolby says it plans to license its 4K glasses free 3D TV technology to third-parties rather than sell its own products.
CES 2013: Dolby Demonstrates 4K Glassless 3D TV [Video]
Posted 01/08/2013 at 3:12pm
| by Paul Lilly
Might 2013 be the year of glassless 3D TVs? It's looking that way.
Television makers and the entertainment industry as a whole has been trying to cram 3D viewing down our collective throats (or eye sockets, as it were -- apologies for the unpleasant visuals), but having to don a pair of sometimes goofy looking goggles hasn't proven popular. The other problem with 3D TVs is that they're often limited to strict viewing angles. Sit just a little bit off axis and the 3D effect goes out the window. It doesn't have to be that way, as Dolby demonstrated at its booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Yep, THAT Dolby, the one that's known for sound.
Reporter extraordinaire and Online Editor Jimmy Thang had a chance to demo Dolby's 4K glassless 3D TV, and sure enough, the 3D effect was preserved when viewing the screen from an angle.
For the technology to truly shine, Dolby said it was best if the content was 3D to begin with, rather than trying to upconvert 2D footage into 3D. The ability to upconvert is there, it just won't be as good as native 3D content.
If you're thinking this is the same technology used in Nintendo's 3DS handheld console and similar devices, think again. Those devices are single-viewer gadgets that, as mentioned above, requires a direct line of sight with the display. Dolby's technology is called Multi View Glasses Free 3D, which is exactly what it sounds like. An algorithm runs in real-time and converts the stereoscopic 3D input signal into a Multi View signal, Dolby explains.
What's equally interesting here is that Dolby is primarily known for audio, not video. Dolby feels it's mastered the audio space, and the next logical step was to dive into video. The company has already developed some professional products in the video space, such as digital video cinema servers, a professional reference video monitor, and more, and is now ready to focus on the consumer end.
Dolby says it plans to license its 4K glasses free 3D TV technology to third-parties rather than sell its own products.
The Secret Weapon That Makes Bitcoin Impervious To Super-Powerful Quantum Computers
http://www.businessinsider.com/quantum-computers-and-bitcoin-2013-4
If you don't know what Bitcoin is, you should. This digital currency has captured lots of attention as the value of a single unit recently surged to over $200.
Venture capitalist Chris Dixon points out in a tweet that the emerging field of quantum computing might totally ruin Bitcoins, but this doesn't seem to actually be the case.
To simplify the idea dramatically, a quantum computer effortlessly outperforms a conventional computer by operating in a totally different way. Your personal computer interacts with data by representing it as "bits" – ones and zeroes. But a quantum computer deals in "qubits," which represent data as ones, zeroes, or the quantum state between the two. With the ability address more data at a time, quantum computers become tremendously powerful tools for a number of fields.
This might sound troubling to the Bitcoin world, as it's built upon cryptography to function properly. Bitcoins are generated only as computers break codes to unlock them, and the time required to break these codes is figured in to controlling inflation and stability. But it seems that if these super-powered quantum computers started crunching numbers to earn Bitcoins, they could throw the currency out of balance. Furthermore, there's the idea that they could even break Bitcoin security entirely.
But this isn't so, according to Bitcoin.
True quantum computers are so tremendously specialized that consumer access just isn't feasible yet. The D-Wave quantum computer that's often written about (and that Lockheed Martin just paid $10 million for) is usually touted as proof of concept, but Bitcoin says it's "not a quantum computer of a kind that could be used for cryptography."
And when there are quantum computers for cryptography, Bitcoin will still be okay. Its security "was designed to be upgraded in a forward compatible way and could be upgraded if this were considered an imminent threat."
Even if or when quantum computing should somehow catch up with Bitcoin security, there's already a field called post-quantum cryptography, which exists solely to encrypt data such that quantum computers can't crack it.
So mine away. The value of the Bitcoin may fluctuate greatly, but it won't have anything to do with security threats.
The Secret Weapon That Makes Bitcoin Impervious To Super-Powerful Quantum Computers
Dylan Love | Apr. 9, 2013, 10:26 AM
Venture capitalist Chris Dixon points out in a tweet that the emerging field of quantum computing might totally ruin Bitcoins, but this doesn't seem to actually be the case.
To simplify the idea dramatically, a quantum computer effortlessly outperforms a conventional computer by operating in a totally different way. Your personal computer interacts with data by representing it as "bits" – ones and zeroes. But a quantum computer deals in "qubits," which represent data as ones, zeroes, or the quantum state between the two. With the ability address more data at a time, quantum computers become tremendously powerful tools for a number of fields.
This might sound troubling to the Bitcoin world, as it's built upon cryptography to function properly. Bitcoins are generated only as computers break codes to unlock them, and the time required to break these codes is figured in to controlling inflation and stability. But it seems that if these super-powered quantum computers started crunching numbers to earn Bitcoins, they could throw the currency out of balance. Furthermore, there's the idea that they could even break Bitcoin security entirely.
But this isn't so, according to Bitcoin.
True quantum computers are so tremendously specialized that consumer access just isn't feasible yet. The D-Wave quantum computer that's often written about (and that Lockheed Martin just paid $10 million for) is usually touted as proof of concept, but Bitcoin says it's "not a quantum computer of a kind that could be used for cryptography."
And when there are quantum computers for cryptography, Bitcoin will still be okay. Its security "was designed to be upgraded in a forward compatible way and could be upgraded if this were considered an imminent threat."
Even if or when quantum computing should somehow catch up with Bitcoin security, there's already a field called post-quantum cryptography, which exists solely to encrypt data such that quantum computers can't crack it.
So mine away. The value of the Bitcoin may fluctuate greatly, but it won't have anything to do with security threats.
The Main Differences Between Facebook & Google+
http://www.googleplusdaily.com/2013/02/differences-google-plus-facebook.html#.UXc804IVwy4
Facebook, once the darling of the social media world, is starting to lose its sheen. With the new restrictions on what people can see, privacy issues, increasing advertising, promoted posts and less relevant content in news feeds, many people are starting to look for alternatives.
In late 2012, Google Plus launched Communities, interactive forums where people with common interests could gather and discuss the things important to them; some of these communities have around 50,000 members!
And this is just the start; Google Plus is only going to grow and become more popular, it’s time to make the switch, or at least come along and see what’s happening
Facebook, once the darling of the social media world, is starting to lose its sheen. With the new restrictions on what people can see, privacy issues, increasing advertising, promoted posts and less relevant content in news feeds, many people are starting to look for alternatives.
Fortunately,
there’s an interactive, well supported, rapidly growing, easy to use social
network that’s ready for you right now, Google Plus. In this article, we’ll explore some
of the similarities, and differences between the two networks, answer some of
your questions and let you know how to make the switch.
Hang on, isn’t Google Plus a ghost town?
Google Plus
has certainly had this criticism levelled at it many times in the past, and
once, that might have been true. When the network first launched, it was quite
tricky to find other members and interact with them. Now, that’s all changed.
In late 2012, Google Plus launched Communities, interactive forums where people with common interests could gather and discuss the things important to them; some of these communities have around 50,000 members!
They also improved
their ‘Find People’ functionality, making it easy to find
former colleagues and classmates, review your existing contact lists and
providing suggestions for interesting people to follow.
This,
together with Google’s continued promotion and support of the network means
that it’s now the second biggest social media network in the world with 340 million users
active there every month.
OK, so what is the main difference between Facebook and Google Plus?
If there’s
one main difference, I’d say it’s this:
- Facebook focuses on connecting you with your existing friends and your relationships with them
- Google Plus helps you build new connections, find interesting people and discover content that can surprise and delight you
That’s not to
say that Facebook can’t help you discover new things, or that Google Plus can’t
help you stay in touch with your current friends, far from it.
Google Plus is simply setup to let you define exactly what you want to see and from whom, whilst also highlighting some of the best people, content and thinking so you can expand your interests and horizons.
Google Plus is simply setup to let you define exactly what you want to see and from whom, whilst also highlighting some of the best people, content and thinking so you can expand your interests and horizons.
How does that work? How can I control what I (and others) see in Google Plus?
When you follow people in Google Plus (just like friending them on Facebook), you can add that person to one or more Google Plus ‘Circles’. You can make these circles about anything you like: you might have one for family members, one for business colleagues, another one for people that post awesome photographs and another for popular science.
Circles have
two major advantages:
- You can post your content to one circle, all your circles or to a public feed, so you can control exactly who sees what you post
- You control what you see from every circle in your content feed. You might want to see everything that your family posts but only the best posts from the photographers
That’s all
very easy to setup in Google Plus and it will quickly become second nature.
This means that you can interact with the people you want to in the way that
suits you best.
What about Facebook Groups, is there anything like that?
Yes, the Google Plus Communities feature. G+ communities are
interactive, constantly updating, live forums where people can share ideas,
discussions and thoughts on thousands of different subjects.
There are
Google Plus communities on just about any topic you can think of, including
art, science, literature, social media, amusing memes, music and many, many
more. In fact, one of the best ones is the ‘Google Plus Daily’ community, but you didn’t need me to
tell you that!
How can I discover new content?
One of the
best aspects of Google Plus is the very wide diversity of people, topics,
content and more that it will expose you to; there are lots of ways of finding
new content:
- Joining some of the more popular ‘public circles’ and having other people share stuff with you
- Joining some communities and discovering content that way
- Using the ‘Explore’ function in Google Plus which will let you know what’s popular on the network
If you hang
around on Google Plus, it won’t be long before your horizons expand!
One of the things that I find annoying in Facebook is all the ads and promoted content, how does Google Plus deal with that?
It doesn’t,
because it doesn’t need to. Google Plus
doesn’t have paid advertising or promoted posts. The interface is actually
pretty clean and uncluttered, meaning it’s easier to focus on the content and not
have all of the different screen real-estate trying to grab your attention.
This all sounds great; does Google Plus have any features that Facebook doesn’t have?
You bet. Two
of the most exciting features on Google Plus are personalised search and
hangouts.
1. Personalised Search – As we all know, Google is always
working to try and provide the most relevant search results for our questions.
One of the best measures for this is what our friends and connection think;
after all, if it’s relevant to them, it may well be relevant to us.
Google Plus
uses these connections to suggest search results based on what your contacts on
Google Plus like. If they have read and liked an article, it may show up higher
in your searches on a similar topic when you do a standard search on Google.
This means that you get to the information you need more quickly.
2. Hangouts – Imagine if you could hold a
real-time, virtual meeting with video and audio with a chosen collection of
friends, colleagues or others. Google Plus has this functionality built in, through
‘Hangouts’. These are virtual meeting rooms
that you just need a microphone and (optionally) a web cam to join and are a
great way to discuss common interests.
Can you do a side by side comparison of Facebook and Google Plus, so I can see whether what’s on one social network is also on the other?
Certainly,
here you go:
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| Compare the features of Facebook & Google Plus |
And this is just the start; Google Plus is only going to grow and become more popular, it’s time to make the switch, or at least come along and see what’s happening
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