360º Immersive Video: "You Are There!"

  • Speakers:
    • Leo Blume, CTO, Enroute Inc.
    Dan Patton VP Product Strategy and Customer Support, Be Here Corp.
  • Date & time:  Thursday, 26 July 2001
    • Refreshments and Social Hour: 6:30-7:30 PM
    Presentation: 7:30 PM
  • Meeting organizer: Rick Reagan

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  • Program:

    • Immersive video is a new interactive viewing experience which puts viewers in the center of the action and gives them full control over where to look and what to watch as a recorded event unfolds on a full 360-degree wrap-around landscape. To what can this viewing experience be compared? Much has been written about interactive television, the convergence of the computer and the TV. The first steps in that direction -- technology providing users with information on advertised products -- seems aimed more at pleasing program sponsors than greatly helping viewers and has generally failed to catch on.

    We are please to have 2 companies involved in this advanced technology presenting their approaches to this new way of seeing the world through the camera's lens at this month's meeting.

    Leo Blume will speak about FirstPerson Video, a suite of technologies designed to deliver high-quality immersive video to a range of consumer devices, including the Sony Playstation2.

    The FirstPerson viewing experience puts the viewer in the center of the action, in the middle of any entertainment, sports or real life event – on the front row of a sold-out concert, on the set of a movie in production, hang gliding over the Hawaiian Islands, or auto racing at the Indy 500 – and makes that event more exciting and engaging than ever before.

    Dan Patton will discuss Be Here's TotalViewTM single-camera imaging technology which provides a seamless 360-degree video or photo image that allows television broadcasters and Internet content producers to give viewers a dramatic "be here" experience with live or recorded programming.

    Be Here's products bring new, powerful perspectives to viewing audiences in the sports and entertainment markets.

    For the 2001 NBA Finals, Be Here worked closely with NBC Sports on the first live sports broadcasting use of TotalViewTM as an instant replay analysis tool.  In April 2001, Be Here and Philips demonstrated the first viewer-controlled Interactive Television application of Be Here's technology.  In March 2001, Entertainment Tonight's Academy Awards coverage included the first-ever broadcast television use of Be Here's innovative single-camera panoramic navigable imaging technology.

    The presentation will focus on the technology and the markets for immersive video. Equipment demonstrations will be provided.
     
     

    Welcome:

    SMPTEsf  welcomes members and friends to attend without charge. Reservations are not required for this meeting.

    Location:

    Silicon Graphics Inc.
    1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy. Mountain View, California
    Building 40 -- the SGI Presentation Center
     

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