3D

A guy is sitting in a theatre. He is wearing 3D glasses, and manages to look both skeptical and unimpressed.
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Movies are better without the 3D

Peak Web January 20, 2022

By: Craig Allan, Peak Associate Imagine this: you’re going to see a movie that you’ve been looking forward to. You have your tickets paid and your seats reserved. As you walk to the theatre, your excitement growing by the step, you see an unfortunate sight: a theatre employee is handing out glasses. You’ve made a terrible mistake — the tickets you bought were actually for a 3D movie, not a regular 2D movie.  3D movies have been a novelty item for theatres from almost the inception of film. However, the practice didn’t really take off until the 1950’s when studios…

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SFU professor Dr. Manolis Savva appointed as Tier 2 Canada Research Chair

News January 29, 2021

Written by: Charlene Aviles, Peak Associate Two years after starting as an assistant professor at SFU’s School of Computing Science, Dr. Manolis Savva was selected as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in computer graphics. The position increases funding and…

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