Your customers would surely like to be able to enjoy the sports stadium experience, only from the comfort of their own homes... Technicolor demos a technology promising that at CES 2012.
Named Personalised Content Rendering, the technology merges feeds from x6 cameras to create a panoramic view users can control-- not only panning form left to right, but even zooming in and out of the picture.
The demo system at CES was supposed a Microsoft Kinect for control via head and eye movement tracking, even if a technical snafu (and too many passers-by) forced Technicolour to employ a trackball instead.
The technology is still young, but Technicolor promises it will be commercially available within the next few years. It does show great potential, and could bespectacular for sports and concert broadcasts.
On CE asked product design expert Mark Schwartz, founder and CEO of PDT, to share his view on product design innovations at this year's CES. Schwartz started his career at Zenith Electronics but you'll know his designs best from cutting-edge cellular products that helped establish Motorola's early lead as a cell phone maker.
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The system is around 90cm wide and 30cm tall and carries a 420W amp feeding x2 stereo speakers (with x2 tweeters and 6" woofers), all inside a heavy duty design. Audio comes through 30-pin iPod/iPhone connector and USB, RCA and line-in ports.
8K resolutions total to 7630 x 4320-- 16 times the resolution of current HD displays, with images "sharp" enough to make the majority of TVs (including the 4K prototypes present at CES) hang their heads in shame.
