New Technology Review from SIGGRAPH 2009

This year's SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans has some very exciting new technologies on display. This article goes over the top five new technologies (as chosen by Technology Review), which include Touchable Holography, Augmented Reality, Hyper-Realistic Virtual Reality, 3D Teleconferencing, and Scratchable Input.

Read the full article here.

How to Create 3D Text and Place it in Photoshop

Here's a turorial on how to create 3D text and put in in a picture:

How to Create 3D Text

Google Announces Chrome Operating System to be available mid-2010.

Google Announces Chrome OS (Operating System) to be available mid-2010. They are targeting netbooks with this new operating system, which could take considerable market share away from Microsoft. The Chrome OS will be much more secure than Windows could ever dream of and it's tightly woven into the internet super-machine...

Slashdot article here: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/08/0953238/Google-Announces-Chrome-OS-For-Release-Mid-2010?art_pos=2

Our Senior Technical Director

Ben Hale is our Senior Technical Director and Head of the Autostereoscopic Video Production Department.

He maintains the blog Autostereoscopic Video Production

as well as this blog.

He also designed our website: www.apcoav.com
and applied SEO to it.

APCO AV can convert Philips Wowvx 2D+Depth content into 9-view MultiView video.

We can take your 2D+Depth images and convert them into a 9-view, MultiView with our software.

As you may know, Philips has stopped developing and manufacturing for their Wowvx technology.

APCO Audio Visual, with offices throughout the US, Canada, and England, can convert your legacy Wowvx 2d+depth content into the new and better MultiView.

An Interesting 3D Computer Interface.

This video was just released, and it shows a neat device that senses your hand as you hover it over a square input device that has some sort of electromagnetic field that detects your hand. The implications of such a device could be fascinating.

See the video here.

Windows 7 Review

At APCO AV, we have yet to update the bulk of our computers to

Windows Vista, but these changes in Windows 7 may be the turning point on adoption of this new operating system from Microsoft.

It is reported that Windows 7 will have a full-fledged Windows XP virtual environment available for all those still hanging onto XP.

Also, check out these default backgrounds!