The world is an ever more extreme place -- and ever more safety conscious too. That means more helmets per capita and thusly more helmet cams. The Tachyon XC is the latest, shipping in not one but two flavors. First up is the standalone model for $180, which packs a couple of batteries and an SDHC card into a lightweight, durable, fully waterproof case. Rather more interesting is the $380 XC 3D, a pair of the cams joined at the hip that record simultaneously and ship with software to join the fruits of their sensors into one mind blowing segment. 3D footage can be displayed in a variety of formats, including the red/blue standard style that rocked the '60s or cross-eyed mode, like those magical posters that look like fields of dots but explode into shapely images of naked ladies when you focus right. Sure, gluing two separate cameras together is perhaps a bit of a crude way to enter the
third dimension, and strictly VGA recording is decidedly disappointing, but check out the video results below in cross-eyed mode before you write this off as an over-priced novelty.
posted September 17th 2009 7:59AM
Did anyone else instantly think of Johnny 5 after looking at the right unit?
Johnny 5 , E.T. , Wall-E , they are all the same design.
Hahahaha.... No Dis-assemble Johnny 5!
-First thought that popped into my head for sure.
:0 only clicked it to say that
Umm, "red/blue standard style that rocked the '60s"?
Try "analglyph" . . . and the 19th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_image
Pardon the Freudian slip: It's "anaglyph," of course :-)
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Anaglyph was never "the standard". Most 3-D movies were shown with polarized systems, as many are today. The depiction of red/blue glasses on everyone at every 3-D movie during past decades is inaccurate.
The 3D clip looks like it's in free view, not cross-eye...
You have to cross your own eyes, they can't cross them for you...
Just don't let them get stuck that way. My mom warned me about that!
Yeah, the eyes are definitely reversed. Remember, the images should be opposite the eye for which they're intended because you're CROSSING your eyes. But at least they've started previewing 3D videos in a format we can see without glasses.
I came in here to say the same thing. These are parallel view arrangement. Apparently the Tachyon folks didn't know youtube lets you upload these specifically as 3D content so your viewers can choose whether they want anaglyph or cross-eyed.
For embedded clips it will show up as it was loaded. In this case parallel. But once you click through to YouTube, you will have a wide choice of viewing options.
For the YouTube 3D app, you need to upload either in parallel or cross-eye.
I hope they will fix this for embedding in the future, because a lot of people might not understand how to view these.
I think it's pretty hard to view the clip. At least I wasn't able to view the whole clip, got headache from it. I only watched a minute or so.
I was able to watch it. Very neat effect.
I really hate how the vast majority of videos posted on this site are done on YouTube.. a site which is filtered by a large portion of employers around the globe..
Maybe that's because you shouldn't be spending your time watching YouTube videos at work?
I free-viewed it for the first minute, but on the second half of that train ride I lost it. Fortunately I had a lorgnette 3d-photo viewer and it worked like a charm. http://www.3dstereo.com/viewmaster/svn-dlor.html
This ought to speed up warp core repairs I suppose.
When you embed YouTube 3D videos it defaults to the side by side I guess, if you click to watch the video on YouTube it actually gives you a load of 3D options. In response to the YouTube frustrations, I found some 3D vids with the cam on vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/6384394 http://www.vimeo.com/5947824 pretty dope!
But does it have night vision so my wife won't see it?
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This is the solution for the bootlegger to record the 3d movies...lol jk