Your vehicle darts along the road, continuing to speed faster and faster. You press on the brakes, and discover you’ve lost control over the vehicle’s breaking system! Seconds later, you hit a wall. Proving Newton’s law that “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction,” your head whips back against the headrest. The airbag, which ballooned on impact, cushions your head. With your cranium buried in the inflated airbag, you feel like a dummy, and that is precisely what you are – a crash test dummy. To optimize what they could learn from you, researchers had placed a video surveillance camera on the wall. Such cameras remain useful throughout the life of an automobile.
The Production
From start to finish, the production of an automobile is a very precise and meticulous process. Video surveillance cameras are vital in ensuring that quality control is always maintained. They are mainly used for inspecting many parts, verifying that parts have been positioned properly and in 3D guidance of robots. For instance “smart” cameras are frequently used in various stages of automobile production. The camera helps robots “learn” certain parts. The robots, in turn, use a “vision processor” to verify that a correct product has been installed.
Along an automobile assembly line, video surveillance cameras are also used to monitor the totally automated installation of the windshield and rear-window. Cameras ensure that parts, such as panels, have been positioned accurately onto the vehicle’s body.
The Testing
Many tests are conducted on automobiles. These are carried out to improve their quality and safety. One example is the crash test. High speed cameras, which can capture more frames per second than other cameras, are used. The camera helps to detail what happens to the passenger and automobile during the crash. Due to the high cost of crash tests, these cameras are invaluable in helping researchers obtain as much data as possible from the test. A video surveillance camera can be used for other types of tests on cars. For example, the road test checks whether or not the car is worthy to be driven on roads. Lastly, a video surveillance camera can be used to enforce quality control at emissions test centers, where the amount of pollutants that a vehicle produces is tested.
The Protection
In addition to assisting in the production and testing of automobiles, video surveillance cameras can also be used to safeguard automobiles from auto theft, a grave problem in America. Consider the following statistics.
* Every year, over one million vehicles are stolen in the United States.
* In 2005, the 2001 BMW M Roadster was the most frequently stolen passenger vehicle in the United States.
* In 2006, more vehicles were stolen in Las Vegas than in any other metropolitan area in the United States.
Mounted in places such as driveways, parking lots, parking garages, and car alarm stores, video surveillance cameras are valuable in protecting one’s investment. In addition to capturing visual evidence against car thieves, they also serve as a deterrent for those who are thinking about taking someone else’s Jaguar, Road Runner, or Bug.
There is no doubt that from the assembly line to the junkyard, video surveillance cameras shift gears to play vital roles in the lives of automobiles.
Have you ever wondered if you look Photogenic when photographed in stereo 3D?
Have you ever seen yourself in a 3D picture in any one of the 3D stereoscopic formats available, whether using Anaglyph Photo3D glasses or 3D viewers, polarized 3D glasses or an old fashioned classical stereoscope, or using 3D glasses-free Lenticular prints or Holographic prints?
Before I give you the answer let’s first define what makes a person “*Photogenic*”. What we all know about being “Photogenic” is that some of us look better in pictures than in real life.
When you look very good in pictures, meaning much better than in real life, we call you “Photogenic”, when you don’t look good we tell you are not Photogenic. Unfortunately, it turns out that most of us don’t view ourselves to be Photogenic.
In fact based on a 13,000-person study, lead by Stereo 3D Expert Sam Ramadan and conducted by Mission3D during the summer of 2003 on Hampton Beach, New Hampshire USA, Ramadan discovered that nearly 80% of females don’t like to be photographed unless the photographer can absolutely promise them a good resulting picture, stating that they “Don’t look good in pictures”, while 20% believe that they look good in pictures, hence Photogenic, and have no problem being photographed regardless of the circumstances.
To define “Photogenic” scientifically, it turns out that Photogenic means that a person looks good when being viewed in Two-Dimensional imagery (Flat 2D) rather than in normal real life imagery (Stereo 3D).
Flat 2D photography (normal single-lens single-image camera photography) results in a complete loss of depth perception which tends to make images look wider than in real-life and this transformation in some individuals makes them appear more attractive, thus Photogenic, while for most of us we actually look less attractive thus non-Photogenic.
It turns out that when you see yourself in a Stereo 3D picture, you are actually reproducing depth perception through Stereo 3D vision; therefore with Photo 3D (*Photo3-D®*) images (real life-like visuals) there is no such thing as being Photogenic.
So If you are satisfied with your real-life image as you normally see yourself in a mirror, you will also be satisfied with your Stereo 3D life-picture.
During its research in 2003, Mission3-D was pleased to know that all the females that did not consider themselves to be Photogenic were delighted to see the result of their own Stereo 3D Photograph as it did not make them look non-Photogenic and that in the words of many, “Finally a picture of me that looks exactly like me!”.
If you would like to see yourself in Photo 3D, according to Mission3D (Mission3-D™), you can now do this with ease and as easy as 1, 2, 3D… as Mission3D produced the Photo3D 303 Kit, which has won TIME Magazine Gadget of the Week Award and PCPHOTO Editor’s Choice, it was even featured on CNN Hotwire.
One of their customers who has purchased one of the kits and had never taken 3D photographs before claims that he was able to take great 3D pictures in less than 20 minutes. I can’t be the judge because I am an expert 3D Photographer, but I know it is easy to use.
All you need is your own Digital Camera, an InkJet Printer and the Photo3D 303 Kit to start capturing and enjoying Stereo 3D pictures in minutes. So if you want to forget ever being non-photogenic you might want to visit:
Turns Nikon Film camera into a 3D Camera using regular film and regular film processing.
Self-contained, no supporting lens required
Processed 3D prints are ready for viewing with included stereo viewer
Protective lens cover, instructions are included.
Product Description Loreo 3D Lens-In-A-Cap – stereo attachment for your regular camera – Nikon mount
Now, real 3D stereo pictures with your own Nikon camera.
This special 3D Lens-In-A-Cap (Nikon mount) is for use with all Nikon cameras with Non-AI, AI, or AIs mounts. It turns your 2D Nikon Camera into a 3D camera.
This self-contained, integrated beamsplitter/lens system creates the 3D stereo images on film and does not need any support lens.
You take off the lens from your Nikon body and attach the 3D Lens-In-A-Cap, then just simply set the aperture and focus range settings right on the 3D Lens-In-A-Cap and then shoot — it’s that easy!
The 3D Lens-In-A-Cap system consists of a mirror system to transpose two images through two 28mm lenses onto the film, thus there are no keystone imperfections like that with other mirror-only beamsplitters.
The actual 3D stereo pairs are two side by side images (half frame images) in standard 24mm x 36mm format on the film, so no special film and no special processing is necessary.
Stereo Prints
These 3D image pairs can be printed like a regular print and viewed using a Loreo Lite Viewer (included), or view them in any other 3D stereo print viewer.
With the Stereo Lens In A Cap, you will receive a protective lens cover, Lite viewer and instructions.
Product Description Meet Minoru, meaning Reality in Japanese, the Worlds first 3D webcam. Connect Minoru to your PC and he will come alive, his eyes will light up and he will be looking at you in 3D. Your friends and family can now see you in 3D over your favourite messaging program like Windows Live Messenger, Skype, AOL instant messenger, OoVoo and many others. You can also take 3D photos to send to your friends or upload to photo sharing sites, or even shoot 3D videos and upload them to YouTube or other video sharing sites. Minoru = Reality! Minoru connects easily to your PCs USB port just like any other webcam but thats where the similarities end. The Minoru software has stereoscopic anaglyphic processing that lets you be seen in three dimensions. The red and cyan anaglyph image produced by Minoru can be viewed by anybody who is wearing commonly available red and cyan 3D glasses (five pairs included with Minoru). Minoru can also be used as a standard 2D webcam for anyone who doesnt have the 3D glasses at hand. There is also a Picture in Picture function allowing you to show the images shown to Minorus 2 eyes separately. Minoru is just fun!
This is a beautiful new 14k Two-tone Camera, Opens with Bird Inside Charm. It is a great gift for yourself or a loved one and makes the perfect addition to any jewelry collection. STYLE- Casted, 3-D METAL- 14K Two-tone ORIGIN- ITALY SOLID/HOLLOW- Hollow FINISH- Polished APPROXIMATE LENGTH- 22.5mm (0.89″) APPROXIMATE WIDTH- 15.9mm (0.63″) APPROXIMATE WEIGHT- 4.01 grams
