From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Kevin M Curry
[kmcurry@home.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:57 PM
To: 3dui List
Subject: canon 3d lens?

Hi,

First, I feel somewhat obliged to reintroduce myself.  I earned my
Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech in
1999.  Unfortunately, I was leaving just as Doug was interviewing the
postion he now holds.  I worked as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr.
Ron Kriz at the Virginia Tech CAVE.  Our research focus at the time was
Teleimmersion.  We were interested in what user interfaces might be
necessary to support collaboration across networked VEs, how presence
affected collaborators' abilities to communicate, etc.  When I graduated
I went to work for Drs. Cathy Lascara and Glenn Wheless at the ODU
Virtual Environments Lab, and this eventually evolved into a private
venture with what is now VRCO.  I am now working in the mainstream
(Windows/PC land) for a company in Virginia Beach, Virginia called
Mariah Vision.  We do 3D on the web for commerce, engineering, and CBT.

I've been quiet on all the research lists for some time, but would like
to re-engage as much as time will allow.  My personal crusade is to stay
focused on technologies that will allow heterogeneous hardware/software
platforms to share three dimensional data while allowing each to present
the data a manner befitting the platform.

...and now getting to the real subject of this mail...

I saw in Wired where Canon was introducing a 3D shutter lens attachment
for their XL1 video camera.

http://www.canondv.com/xl1/3d_lens/concept.html

Has anyone had any pratical experience with anything like this?  If it's
anything like they say then I'm betting it will really define video
teleconferencing in 3D.

Regards,
Kevin Curry

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