Watch Everything in 3-D? Here’s How One Inventor Is Making It Possible
Gene Dolgoff remembers looking around his hometown of Manhattan as a child and thinking “I have to record and play back this experience.” Dolgoff thinks he’s found a way with 3-D Vision, a converter that instantly transforms any 2-D video content — from TV to video games — into 3-D using algorithms that present stereoscopic image pairs and give the illusion of depth.
Now, the man who has always seen the world through 3-D glasses wants to bring his vision into commonplace content. Dolgoff’s Fundable project for 3-D Vision has reached half of its $10,000 goal in only four days.
The 3-D experience was previously only available in blockbuster movies or among the few people who invested in 3-D televisions. Dolgoff says the high cost of making 3-D content through graphic artists or special cameras has been the biggest barrier to it going mainstream, which he believes 3-D Vision has the potential to do. The first generation of 3-D Vision will require glasses, but Dolgoff has a prototype in development that works without glasses, which he’s been demoing for visitors to his Long Island, NY lab.
“Gamers have been really interested. After they play their games in 3-D on our system, they tell me ‘I can’t go back to playing this in 2-D,’” says Dolgoff.
Dolgoff is best known for inventing the LCD projector and inspiring the holodeck in “Star Trek”.