Inaugural spin (day 256)

The tech session with the stereoscopic rig went really well.  About 15 people came and for over two hours Marty talked about the technical aspects of the rig and took questions from the participants.  There was lots of great feedback and many said they would be interested in coming back and spending some time experimenting with the rig.  We ourselves will be spending some quality time with the rig in the coming days getting ready for the Western Economic Diversification announcement of the S3D Centre taking place at Emily Carr on May 20th.  We'll be filming the event with the rig and showing the live footage on a 3DTV LCD (Hyundai S465D).

I taped a lot of the session today but I haven't had time to upload the footage.  In the meantime here is a photo taken from an iPhone of Marty and I looking at the live stream for the first time.  The next shot is an older one of my first time seeing the rig at Kerner in late March.


Many people deserve thanks for making this session happen.  The Kerner team for getting the rig up here in time and helping organize some of the session logistics.  Marty Brenneis especially for so generously providing so much information to the assembled group.   And Rick Overington, for heroically wrangling technology and traffic to make sure everything worked in the end.
Our industry partners also deserve many thanks for their invaluable contributions and support: Panavision, Codex, Cine-Tal, Sony, Fujinon, Evertz, Silicon Imaging.

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