Sony has successfully established yet another technological feat at CEATEC JAPAN 2009 by announcing a concept video camera that shoots 3D footage in 3D through a single lens. A prototype of monocular 3D camera, the camera is an impressive leap in technology which discards the use of two lenses instead using only one to create the 3D effect by splitting the incoming light into two beams.
The company has enhanced the frame rate to 240fps and developed an optical system that can take images for both right and left eyes at the same time by utilizing the width of the objective lens. The images for the right and left eyes can separately be taken at 240fps.
Also the technology entails two benefits first, the focal point of the eye and the intersection point of lines of sight work in conjunction with each other, something atypical of normal 3Dimages, secondly, the images do not split into two even without the glasses even though it requires a special glass to view 3D images. Just a prototype for now, we shouldn’t hurry our hungry souls on this and should thus give Sony some time to actualize this binocular-style camera for 3D footages in the future.
