HD VIDEO CAMERA

The future of video recording will certainly include 3D cameras.  We’ve been hearing about this for years.  We’ve all seen Imax movies with the glasses.  We’re just waiting for the technology to catch up with the hype and hit the mass market.

Some pretty cool high tech stuff is being developed now in this field.  We’re going to see the kind of video recorders that take 3D videos where you don’t need any glasses at all.

It sounds weird but it makes sense when you break it down.  Our eyes see the world in color and in 3D anyway.  Remember, the first TV’s were only black and white.

I first want to point out that this won’t be the same kind of “pop out” in your face 3D that we are used to with the Imax movies.  It’s going to be more like looking deep into a TV.

Simply put, the idea is that there will be 2 lenses that record video from different angles.  This is how our eyes do it.  We can learn from how we see the world.  Our left eye takes one “recording” and our right eye takes another.  Our brain mixes and matches this info into what we see.  It’s the different angles and the shadows that allow us to reconstruct this perception.  Even what we see is a kind of virtual reality anyway.  Our eyes detect certain frequencies and we decode all of this info and come up with something.

This technology is moving fast and getting better all the time.   It’s possible that cameras of the near future will have 3 or more lenses taking different angled recordings and coming up with something.  We probably won’t grow a 3rd eye, but there is nothing stopping us from putting more lenses on a camera.

It’s hard to say exactly when this will be awesome and in our living rooms, but think about how fast technology always moves.  10 years ago you had a diskman and no MP3 player.  15 years ago, the best TV money could buy wasn’t even a flat screen.  It was a heavy piece of garbage with horrible video quality and a rounded viewing surface.  We get used to good stuff pretty quickly and forget about how “bad” stuff used to be in the not so distant past.

Go watch a movie from the early 90′s and you’ll know what I’m talking about.  At that time, it was state of the art.  Now our cell phones can take better pictures.