Mobile 3-D

The Samsung B710 phone looks like a typical smart phone, but something unexpected happens when the screen is moved from a vertical to a horizontal orientation: the image jumps from 2-D to 3-D.

The technology that produces this perception of depth is the work of Julien Flack, CTO of Dynamic Digital Depth, who has spent more than a decade perfecting software that can convert 2-D content to 3-D in real time. It could help solve the biggest problem with 3-D: the need for special glasses that deliver a separate image to each eye. Flack’s software synthesizes 3-D scenes from existing 2-D video by estimating the depth of objects using various cues; a band of sky at the top of a frame probably belongs in the far background, for example.

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Microsoft Will Unveil ‘Pink’ Phone Soon

Internet giant Microsoft Corp is venturing into uncharted teritory-the smartphone market. The company will announce its long-awaited “Project Pink” phones early next week, sources closely involved with the matter said yesterday.

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