News and information about the annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications (SD&A) conference.
In this message:
- It's a wrap! Another successful SD&A conference!
- Photos from SD&A 2009
- SD&A Theatre Winners
- More SD&A Winners
- Important Dates
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's a wrap! Another successful SD&A conference!
Thanks to everyone who participated in the 20th anniversary SD&A conference. It was another standout event and there are many highlights which could be talked about at length! Highlights for me include: the two hour 3D Theatre, the exhibition of almost two dozen large framed prints from the book "In Your Face 3D" and book signing by the author David Klutho, the two discussion forums on 3D Gaming and 3D standards, the "all in polarised 3D" presentation by Ron Labbe about "publishing stereoscopic images", the keynote presentation by Lenny Lipton, the demonstration session with almost 30 stereoscopic displays on show (including at least one new release exclusive), plus much more.
Despite a broader reduction in attendance at other conferences, this year's SD&A conference managed a healthy increase in attendance of about 20%. I'd say the buzz in the halls about stereoscopic 3D had increased by an even bigger amount! ;-)
If you took photos at SD&A 2009, please contact Andrew Woods so they can be considered for inclusion on the SD&A conference website.
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This was again our highest attended session of the conference with estimates of up to 250 people attending. The crowd was buzzing after the show talking about the great 3D content that they'd seen.
This year we again had two judges in the audience to choose best of show prizes. This year the judges were Dr Samuel Zhou from IMAX, and Lawrence Kaufman, President of the National Stereoscopic Association.
And the drum roll please.... The winners were:
SD&A 2009 Best of Show Live Action:
"Fireworks Symphony", Takashi Sekitani
SD&A 2009 Best of Show CGI:
"Scalable City", Sheldon Brown, The Experimental Game Lab, CRCA, UCSD.
The purpose of this session is to showcase the great range of 3D content that is being produced around the world and we certainly achieved that goal this year.
All of the content shown at this year's session will eventually be listed on the conference website: www.stereoscopic.org/3dcinema
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Two further prizes were offered at the SD&A conference for "The Best Use of Stereo in a Presentation" and they were given to:
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Ron Labbe, for his historical presentation, "Publishing stereoscopic images."
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Justus Ilgner, MD of the Univ. Hospital in Aachen, Germany for a very realistic (and gigantic, holodeck-esque stereoscopic) projection of inner-ear surgery in his "From bench to bedside: stereoscopic imaging in experimental and clinical otology."
