[From a Passmore email.] 3D FILM PREMIERE THIS WEEKEND! – Mammoth humpback whales and the vast blue of the Pacific come to life in full stereoscopic 3D when Ocean Voyagers 3D premieres in Los Angeles’ at the prestigious Downtown Independent Theatre on June 5, 2011 at 8PM.  A joint effort between Feodor Pitcairn Productions and PassmoreLab, the film is an exciting adventure where hardship pushes endurance to the brink, danger lurks around every bend, and where love knows no bounds.   Narrated by Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning actress Meryl Streep, and filmed over a 5-year span in the waters of French Polynesia, Hawaii, Alaska and beyond, the film follows a mother humpback whale and her newborn calf in a “coming of age” journey for the neonate giant.   “The heart of this film is really the relationship between our humpback mother and her calf,” remarks filmmaker Feo Pitcairn, “we had unprecedented access to these animals, filming them day after day, we established a real bond of trust. This enabled us to get rare and intimate footage  … seeing this footage on a big screen in 3D is the closest thing to experiencing first hand what we experienced while filming them underwater.”   This film is a stirring testament to not only the strength, grace and beauty of these animals, but also a revelation of all the challenges they face, both natural and man-made.  They must persevere through months without food, journeys of thousands of miles, and predation by shark attack — as well as the threat of commercial whaling and entanglement in fishing gear.   “…seeing these animals behaving naturally in their environment, interacting with one-another as only this film could allow, is truly something else,” says Greg Passmore of PassmoreLab, “…the images are hauntingly beautiful, fascinatingly imaginative.”   LA SCREENING INFO.   Ocean Voyagers 3D will also have a private premiere in New York on Saturday, June 4th, hosted by Dimitris Athos.  For information in attending the New York event please contact OV3D producer Laura Orthwein at laura.orthwein@gmail.com

From a Passmore email.  Contact them for more info.

[By Hubert Nguyen, Ubergizmo]

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Dr. Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm’s CEO, has introduced mobile computing as a “force of social change”, as he referred to the recent events in the middle east during which people “armed only with mobile phones” could document facts on the ground and share them with the world, instantly.

And that’s only the beginning. Qualcomm estimates that data usage will grow by up to 12X by 2015. The future will be dominated by both HSPA+ and LTE networks it seems. Both networks are powered by Qualcomm technologies.

Yet, Qualcomm reminds the Uplinq attendees that feature phones (“non smartphones”) will still represent 500M units in 2015. Although they are not sexy, this segment still represents a huge opportunity in the industry. Paul Jacobs calls developers to cease their “moment” and build apps that can reach “hundreds of millions”.

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CAA, Creative Artists Agency:  CAA has announced the creation (with Qualcomm) of a “creative mobile lab”. The goal of this new entity is to create much better entertainment applications and will cover video games, music and movies. CML calls developers to join its rank – although the incentive for developers wasn’t really clear during the keynote.

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3D content: of course, there’s no escaping from the 3D push of the entire industry. We’ve been shown games, demos and movies that show stereo 3D in all its glory. Yet, this is something that end-users mostly don’t “desire” yet. The glasses-less devices might change this, but the overall opinion of most people that we talk to is: I don’t want to wear glasses.

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Augmented Reality:  Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality (AR) software development kit (SDK) is coming to iOS – for free.  Qualcomm has been a big believer of AR for a long time. There was a nice demo in which upon looking at DVD boxes thought a smartphone camera, the movie trailer would be played on the box via AR. The main challenge of AR, in my personal opinion, is the lack of an efficient (real-time) visual recognition engine, along with a complete database that should power it. This is going to be a multi-year (or decade) effort. When it works, AR can be refined and improved for years to come, and it will need a steady supply of processing power – this is a big stake for Qualcomm and others.

Dreamworks was talking about how “AR” was going to simplify DVD pre-sales, but what they were showing was really a QR-code (2D barcode)… I don’t see how it related to AR, and frankly Asian countries had that a decade ago. Another “AR” application was the ability to take pictures on top of which the movie characters were added. Again, not really “AR-ish” for me.

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See the full article here: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/06/qualcomm-keynote-uplinq-2011/