3D in focus for the entertainment industry

The incredible success of Avatar: The Way of Water is just one of the factors that has put 3D back into focus for the entertainment industry. Incredibly, the movie has already scaled the heights to become the third-highest ever grossing movie – knocking Cameron’s own Titanic one rung down the ladder. The ability to see the world of Pandora in 3D has been cited as one of the driving factors behind its huge success. 

Away from cinema, major theme parks are already using headsets and high tech glasses to provide virtual and augmented reality experiences but, although thrilling for a short ride, these experiences are limited in some ways. They only allow each participant to experience the ride alone and commercially the headsets are expensive to deploy and maintain. The holy grail is to be able to provide an immersive 3D experience without complex headset technology that will allow participants to share their experience with friends and family.

Interestingly, it has been reported that Disney has recently patented its Virtual World Simulator that could use projectors to create a 360 degree immersive world. In many ways the projection technologies are already there to bring this concept to reality but it may take a little time for the computer processing power to catch-up.

They quickly realised that most indoor golf centres were aimed at casual fun – rather than at those that wanted to improve their game. There was a gap in the market for a serious golf simulator experience and it worked. Full Swing’s systems are favoured by some of the biggest names in golf, including Tiger Woods and Jason Day.

The Full Swing Golf simulators have a technology edge, combining a high-speed camera for club head metrics with 3D infrared tracking of the ball’s flight and superb projection visual quality. It relies on Panasonic PT-VMZ50 WUXGA laser projection for its display requirements.