3D Solar

3D Solar is a UK startup company, setup by Patrick Levy Rosenthal, which develops 3D-imaging computer screens. The company was the first to create a prototype in which the projection of an image, a ball, could be seen 13 inches away from the screen and yet the user was able to hit the ball directly with their hand, without the need for any special equipment or interface. 3Dsolar continue to create products with the aim of increasing their users' interactive experience, the most recent being Tronme. Tronme is a downloadable software that allows people to remix music tracks on their computer using the mouse and the webcam to control the audio and visual effects. 3D Solar receieved the 2005 IST Prize from the European Council for Applied Science, Technology and Engineering. 3D Solar display devices create a 3D image of objects hovering 13 inches away from the screen. The object can also appear to rotate 180 degrees without the need for specialised glasses. Users are able to manipulate the virtual image directly with their hands as they would a real object.

Because each image is created using a single 2Dview, content providers will not have to incorporate hundreds or thousands of separate images to create the 3Dsolar effect thus enabling them to re-focus on their core business and develop 3D images more rapidly.

3DSolar SDK is free of charge allowing software developers and content providers to directly interact with the 3Dsolar units.

Simon Jones, PhD, DSc, CEng Managing Director MediaLab Europe MIT Media Lab commented “The 3-D capability the resolution of the images and the interactivity, make it one of the most impressive technologies I have seen for a long time.”

Tronme
TronMe software is a patented multimedia player, developed by 3D Solar, using a proprietary interactive video and Interactive music audio format the IVS which appeared early 2006 in the United Kingdom.

TronMe is a player which allows several actions on track and video; there are the different segments of the song; the verse, chorus, bridge, introduction and the different instruments used on each track are also separated; each track is broken down into bits. The user takes these building blocks and makes their own unique live video mix of the song.

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