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METATRONICS: EIM2
End-to-End Immersive Image Metadata Management
CONVERGENCE: The industry is at a crossroads. The next step will be the convergence of platform, content and distribution. For this to happen there needs to be interoperability and scalability with the ability to accept the highest specification as well as the ability to accept standards now available.
BROADBAND: Those who placed millions in their broadband pipe expansion hoped all aspects of the platform needed for liquidity would be in place. That did not happen and the companies are in demise. We, consequently, evaluate for a solid business model every aspect needed in a full spectrum convergence.
ZTV: We present a laser projector that has high specifications. We call this projector Z*Tron Vision (ZTV). A Z-Kit is developed that handles the electronics, taking any input, delivering the best image to the screen.
QUALIFICATIONS: Broad-spectrum color: high resolution, infinite depth of focus (IDF) allowing dimensional imaging, large images with no artifacts, scan lines or pixels,
optical light efficiency, brightness uniformity.
ANY FEED: The projector can take a DVD or satellite feed and project a smooth image on an 80-foot dome without artifacts. This is important for BIG MOVIE cinema: IMAX type domes, Cinerama, planetariums, theme park installations, as well as big curved advertising screens in heavy traffic walk ways or arenas. Also this means that any film can be transferred to a digital feed and project on a Cinerama or dome screen.
FIRST LINE OF BUSINESS: Specialty BIG MOVIE Cinema. Famous Players of Viacom has 8 IMAX domes in which they would like digital projection. They also are aligned with a Vivende European theater chain that has large theaters. Sunset Cinerama would like a digital Cinerama solution and Paul Allen spent 11 million dollars with Digital Domain to give him Digital Cinerama. That was not accomplished and the theater sits empty. Anschutz has 30 BIG MOVIE theaters.
An end-to-end solution with the ability to interconnect and the BIG MOVIE Specialty cinema sets a high standardization platform for the convergence.
LICENSING: Our plan is to always lease until the platforms are set and functioning. Licensing control is essential because it is advised that in order to set up the integrated platform structures correctly that we keep strong control over the process.
AUDIENCE DRAW: People will want the ZTV in their homes. Our introduction of ZTV through the platform plays: specialty cinema, Metatron gaming theaters, and the Studio production club will stimulate the high-end home and business market:
*Introducing IDF and creating the desire for dimensional curved imaging in the home
*Creating platforms for interactivity and delivery
*Interoperability and set standards for end-to-end solutions
*Making sure that there is a “killer app” that speeds the end-to-end solutions
*Creating vehicles for video streaming and space for content production
INTEGRATED PLATFORMS CREATED AROUND ZTV:
*Specialty Cinema Theaters (BIG MOVIES)
*Interactivity gaming Theaters
*Studio of the Future virtual production space
*Simulated realties space for institutional, military, government and commercial
*Advertising Screens (Meta-Light)
Each of these platforms is set for cross talk, interoperability, and scalability. EIM2 provides an end-to-end solution from content provider to projection connecting powerful inexpensive image processing workstations with cutting edge custom software.
The industry would like “Creative tools &Trouble-Free Transmission” workflow. They want high-powered computers and wide area network performance at affordable prices. It is a welcome culture change, free from the confines of film costs, hard wired black boxes, VTR’s and shipping tapes. The question is who will offer the best-integrated system?
EIM2 offers a no-hassle solution in the work place that effortlessly empowers creative content, scalable security platform and distribution with just a click of the button. This creates an endless sense of frontier that will absorb technologies that proceeded with a reconfiguration space for the next high-end solution.
FIRST TEST BED SITE: Famous Players wants 8 digital projectors for their IMAX domes. They want Studio owned digital content delivered. The test bed site can:
*Set color space code
*Studios involved by providing content and approving color space
*Start the SMPTE process for evaluation of high-end specifications
*Set high-end 4000 resolution so digital can finally be as good as film
The ZTV full color spectrum capability allows one set color standard: Sony/ Panasonic HD digital camera out put to storage/edit/transfer/image processing/pipe/theater projector, with out black boxes or interruption in the colorization theater. EIM2 delivers software driven solution for film to digital to delivery. Software is also available in the Z-Kit so the satellite or DVD feeds are processed for the projected image in real time.
Four projectors (JVC based) are test bedded for streamlined prototype platforms so that customers or strategic partners can actually see the integration platform and sign turnkey contracts. The progression can cause fast implementation of BIG MOVIE MetaRama theaters, MetaZone mini- Immersive theater chain, and MetaStar Network.
MetaStar distributes programming, which has been produced in the permanent studio MetaShell Playpen installations. This process facilitates the Studio of the Future model, which provides Immersive space for production (the new Holodeck), the ability to interact between MetaShells through broadband, and a new approach to creating and distributing content. The shows are first shown in the MetaRama Theaters.
EIM2 oversees so the final outcome is an interconnected network of high-end standardized interoperability, which delivers to the miniaturized and inexpensive ZTV in the homes and businesses. These venues are driven by the infinite depth of focus (IDF) and the high specifications that ZTV provides.
As these integrated platforms are perfected and EIM2 management of the standardization is set, the convergence of platform, delivery and content will be established so the true realization of what broadband allows can be realized from theater to homes.
An integration platform also provides space for large curved screen advertising for high volume traffic spaces, institutional, military, and commercial turnkey installations, including simulation, LBE, theme park, and many new arenas not even yet perceived.
Our first test bed clients and partners support us in setting up the system and introducing IDF to the audiences. We believe that after the audience experience the dimensional realities of ZTV, that they will not be happy with flat screen reality.
EIM2 delivers the image with background loading and unloading via the closed network. Integrated software and hardware solution delivers maximum ROI with software productivity/ efficiency/ flexibility/ value over current operational expenses. It provides a more automated workplace, which shortens the path to higher revenues
EIM2 solution replaces SGI with PC hardware packages. It offers smarter technologies to support the industries evolvement into an all-digital and tapeless workplace.
NEXT STEP R & D: One of our main goals is to introduce dimensional reality imaging (autostereo) and integrate this capability into the EIM2 platform with end-to-end delivery. This entails capture, manipulation, layered delivery, and a specialized ZTV for projection. By offering an exciting auto stereo After Hours Live show or feature on a dome of Cinerama inspires people to see the same on their home ZTV. (Cameron producing BIG MOVIE with Sony/Panavision 3D digital camera).
THE HOME UNIT: The homeowner has choice of different models
*MODEL A: Curved large screen in box or on wall
*MODEL B: Curved screen, the bottom near floor level
*Model B provides projection as a programmed curved backset, so the home can have an Immersive space with a backset for their own home production and shows.
* Z-Kit allows all inputs, accepts highest specifications for theater quality imaging.
* Z-Kit is server, encryption box, allows manipulation of images, allows interactivity
* Z-Kit provides an adjunct or replacement for gaming boxes (home).
* MetaZone gaming theater is considered one of the killer applications to inspire the home viewers and players to participate by using broadband and purchasing a ZTV.
* MetaStar Productions from the MetaShell Studio of the Future clubs will also be an impetuous to get broadband ZTV.
METATRONICS: EIM2 ensures compatibility, interoperability and cross talk among different platform plays so standardization is set for the final delivery target: the home.
The goal for MetaTronics is to be a catalyst to universalize industry high-end standards not only for E Cinema delivery but also for the business and home. Presenting the integration platforms through test bed customers to prove concept will create the desire in the audiences to accelerate the progress of the plan. When audiences and clients experience the IDF dimensional ZTV platforms, their desire for the new digital transition will drive the implementation and convergence.
The Industry is calling for the stimulus to draw people in their homes to broadband. Very few homes in the US are connected. Most of the Industry says the “killer app” has not been introduced yet. Thus consumers have not gotten a handle on the possibilities.
We believe the killer application will be the combination of Immersive curved space, dimensional imaging, content from holodeck production space, and wanting to be involved with the MetaZone gaming world. Contests and battles between MetaZone players might be as exciting for some as watching a football game.
We hope that we can fast track this plan so that the home and business models can be ready to be delivered in the next two years. For this purpose the suggestion is to install 80 projector platforms in the first year in BIG MOVIE theaters and set up 10 MetaZone gaming mini-theaters. Also 10 Meta-Light advertising screens will be installed in high traffic areas.
Also we want to install 4 MetaShell club production sites to begin the Studio of the Future content development. 6 After Hours Live shows will be produced with main recording artists as hosts. This process will then be the first phase in the development of the MetaShell platform in a club atmosphere and thus creating the convergence of platform, content and distribution.
Diane Troyer (818-795-2407)
Feb. 5, 2001 Diane Troyer
Laser Projection Apparatus with Liquid-Crystal Light Valves And Scanning Beam
APPLICATION ONE: BIG MOVIE. The CRT is needed for smooth film like images on the screen. The military is buying CRTs now, because they create the best imaging for their needs, so the CRT lines are ramped up. Rank Cintel has developed a 4000 line CRT for their Telecine that can be used for our projector if that is what the studios want to be delivered. The studios are now transferring their content to 2000 line storage.
4000 lines will be as good an image as IMAX film for domes, planetariums, theme park rides, etc. MetaRama: Electronic Specialty Cinema (BIG MOVIE) opens up a whole new world for projection.
ATTRIBUTES OF ZTV:
The user friendlily projector cuts down on technician costs for the BIG MOVIE Theater. Color correction software in the Z-Kit works in real time for features, DVD, satellite, etc. This eliminates the high colorization costs now used for the DMD arc lamp projectors.
Since the lasers provide full color spectrum and computer 16-bit color capability, the duplication of feature color can be color coded as the feature is shown. The simplest is that a standard color code is set and used through out the end-to-end system. Thus this standard code is used when the feature is transferred to digital. A standardized color-coding is important throughout the system and is what is missing in today’s E Cinema. .
INFINITE DEPTH OF FOCUS (IDF):
Cinerama screens, planetariums, domes, curved applications for theme park, location based entertainment, small interactive Immersive gaming theaters, and curved advertising screens in shopping center walk ways. Water screens will show dimensional advertising and be visually exciting. Also flat screen projection is possible.
BIG MOVIE theaters are in desperate need of product to make their monthly lease fees. Wouldn’t 2001: The Space Odyssey be great digitally projected on Cinerama or dome?
Feb. 5, 2001 Diane Troyer
Laser Projection Apparatus with Liquid-Crystal Light Valves And Scanning Beam
FACTS:
1. Light uniformity across screen.
2. Light efficiency: more than 65% (other projectors are not more than 45%)
3. Goal of light efficiency to be 85-90% (simpler projection lens)
3. No artifacts on the screen, no matter how large the screen (IMAX DOME)
4. Vendors in line for delivery of volume