Sony has unveiled its second generation DEV-50V digital binoculars. The device includes video and still recording in 2D as well as in stereoscopic 3D. As it is waterproof and dust resistant, it is ideal for use out in the wilderness.

The Dev-50V will be released before this summer 2013. Read all technical details and watch a 4-minutes video demo here under.

A Canadian-led study has found that playing video games with both eyes can dramatically improve vision in adults with lazy eye — a condition thought to be all but untreatable in adults.

Lazy eye, known to doctors as amblyopia, is a problem in which a person sees better in one eye than the other and the brain effectively turns off the weaker eye. It affects up to three per cent of the population. People with lazy eye can't see stereoscopic 3D scenes and can't judge distances as effectively as people with normal vision because those tasks require the use of both eyes at the same time.

3D Stereo MEDIA and XpanD are joining forces to sponsor and organize a workshop entitled "3D movie making: from script to business", under the auspices of the International 3D Society (I3DS). Its President, Jim Chabin, will be the host of the event taking place during the Cannes festival on May 16, 2013.

Alioscopy (Paris, France) launches a new Short View 24" autostereoscopic 3D screen, ideal for point of sales applications as well as desktop use. It can be enjoyed without 3D glasses at an ideal distance of 1.40 m (4' 7") and anywhere between 1.0 m (3' 3") and 3.0 m (9' 10").

Alioscopy is pleased to offer this new model at an introductory retail price of 1,995$ (ex-works Paris, excluding sales taxes).

"Hear my voice... Alexander Graham Bell."  said the inventor of the telephone more than a century in front of his cardboard and wax disc voice recorder on 15 April 1885 in Washington DC, USA. More than one century later, the badly damaged disc is unable to withstand a reading needle to play it back. But today's technology includes high-resolution 3D cameras able to recreate a full 3-dimensional model of the original disc, and simulation software able to put the virtual disc on a virtual turntable.

 ^{A close look at an experimental recording disc shows how it has become cracked over the course of 128 years.
The inscription in wax reads "Record made April 15, 1885, by AGB and CAB."}

Free-formation-flying robotic spheres are hovering around the International Space Station with goggles on right now!

The Visual Estimation and Relative Tracking for Inspection of Generic Objects (VERTIGO) study, a part of the Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) investigation explores the use of small satellites equipped to analyze and capture data from specified objects, producing a 3D model of those objects.

The VERTIGO goggles weight 1.6 kilogram and include one 1.2 gigahertz data processor, camera, Wi-Fi device and batteries plus a 128 GB on-board memory.