The 3D revolution

He had been speculating on this technology since long ago, in fact has been biding his time crouching. And the time came to Avatar, the epic (not film) by James Cameron (probably the year 0 of 3D). And is that the consumer technology industry will owe him a lot for many years.

At the last CES in Las Vegas (the largest world's fair of the electronic technology industry) presented the first 3D TV models will go on sale during this semester. The pioneers were Samsung (and I still barely lit LED technology has caused the disappearance of plasma and LCD have made ​​the prehistoric technology, in just 3 years this has happened), LG, Sony and Panasonic; ie the "usual suspects", Korean and Japanese (Where is the R & D in Europe in this sector.? The Sector for years to come).

Of course, this will mean yet another revolution in the entertainment industry, if anything this will be deeper. And why is that? Simply because to reformulate how audiovisual entertainment experience and interaction with all existing equipment and virtual worlds on the web.

If you're still exhausted with changes in VHS (sorry if you were a Beta, yes, I know, was better, but acknowledges that it was like having a produto Apple 10 years ago, a geek stranger among the great mass of consumers of video). What he said change from VHS to DVD (with the usual expenditure that entails, especially for movie buffs and collectors who writes), and Blue Ray DVD (Hey, that of the Beta, you would not be of those who you spent to HD- DVD, well that happens to be an "early adopter" clueless). Not nablar of non-physical digital formats and conversion from cassette to CD, then the terror of the industry: the mp3 format (I hope that the SGAE, not audit this blog and accuse me to name the unnameable).

Well everything is into question, as new formats are being defined as having compatibility problems with the systems that are already on the market and those who are in the starting line of the same this year. In theory there are three organizations that are working to coordinate the formats that are becoming available to the public: The SMPTE (Society of Motion Pictures & Engineers), the 3D @ Home Consortium and the ITU (International Telecommuncation Union). From them arise all standards are approved and those to come.

The Big Questions:

I know you're wondering if your brand new LCD 50 'and your new Blue Ray player, will be compatible with what is coming. At first you say that no TV and other "tecnostuff" it depends. It will be absolutely necessary to be done with a 3D TV and depends only affects the Playstation 3, which reprodcutor of BR will be able to update via software for playing 3D content.

In addition, each manufacturer of the new TVs will make special glasses for your model, thereby eliminating interoperability (so siblings, cousins, friends and brothers - I mean men are going because now I understand - put you agree to buy models of the same mark for when the World Cup in South Africa, which will be causing the global phenomenon of the expansion of 3D in the home, otherwise there will be discussions of all types and family breakdown, I'm afraid) .

This is already going to be a failure from the beginning to get a higher rate of market penetration by forcing users to create c ommunities by brand and not by the system (I think it was a failure of long-term vision, or more either supine greed to get large market share early on, and therefore greater capacity limitation). L Yet the brands provide, according to Sony, that half of the appliances sold in the world market in 2013 has this technology.

But the big battle is not going to give in the film market. No doubt the great battle will be in the video game market and here Sony has the upper hand: the PS3 is fully supported by the system and therefore consolillas as the wii, are doomed to extinction, not to mention the Xbox 360. Large software firms already see the future and the future is 3D.

On the future:

I dare to venture that the big jump will occur in the office, the 3D technology will allow us to virtual interactions as we have never guessed, and this will really revolutionize the market. The CAD applications will be available to any user, social networks will experience a radical change in use, both in format and in content and form of interaction, advances in telemedicine will be radical, or in the field of investigation of the life sciences, chemistry or theoretical physics, not to speak of the immediate capabilities of computer equipment with more powerful chips thanks to graphene, future applications of quantum computing imminent and future integration into the web semantics.

That is what I mean, that's it, no one knows what is to come, and whatever is not the next decade, even the next five years. We will see before they can take as users.

Conclusion: It's time ... and visionary entrepreneurs

PS: By the way (especially for the Beta and HD DVD), if you're planning to be an early adopter of this technology, we anticipate that some companies are developing systems for home 3D without glasses. Yes, without glasses, and it is what you're thinking, are based on holographic systems.