DDE has nothing to do with VLI and I believe DDE is for REAL
As far as competition or similarity from Visualabs (VLI-V), VLI does not have the extensive patent portfolio that DDD has and VLI has no real established partners. Motorola, and their cable subsidiary General Instrument, is the number one manufacturer of digital set-top boxes. Motorola/General Instrument invested in DDD not once but twice and their Chief Technology Officer is on the Board of Directors of DDD. Motorola is very smart and very thorough and has to have investigated all companies in the 3-D space. They chose to invest in DDD, not VLI or any of the others (To my best knowledge). Also, DDD has relationships with Apple, Pioneer, Intel, and a number of other companies.These are real relationships. Apple has agreed to let DDD bundle its 3-D internet software in the next generation of QuickTime. DDD displayed on the Pioneer booth and the Motorola booth at various trade shows. Also, DDD displayed with Intel at other trade shows and Intel has provided DDD with equipment
without charge. No other company in the 3-D space has nearly this level of relationships.
Additionally, one of the founding investors of Amazon.com invested US$1 million in the company and joined the Board of Directors last year. Also, they have on their Advisory Board Mr. Sean Philips, who is the world's leading 3-D IMAX cinematographer. One must look at the www.ddd.com <http://www.ddd.com> website and click on their "About Us" section and then click on "News and Press" to view their press releases. If you read the press releases put out in the last two years, you will get a sense of how vastly superior DDD is to any other company in the 3-D space.
DDD has won 2 substantial awards recently. This is on top of the validation from Motorola/General Instrument, Apple, Pioneer, Intel, and others, as DDD is working with these and a number of other substantial players:
>From the www.ddd.com website:
March 15, 2001 release:
DDD WINS "BEST OF SHOW" IN ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY AT INTERNET WORLD SPRING 2001
May 10, 2001 news article:
DDD Wins the Coveted Mario Award from TV Technology Managzine
Also from the website:
DDD introduced its 3D TV solutions at Motorola's booth at The Western Show in Los Angeles in November 2000. In April 2001, DDD teamed with screen manufacturer 4D-Vision at NAB, where its 3D TV won TV Technology's Mario
Award for Best New Technology. In June 2001, you can see DDD's 3D TV system at work in Pioneer's booth at INFOCOMM.
DDD is not limited to 3D TV - our 3D technologies allow for high-impact 3D viewing across all visual media: television, Internet, CD, DVD and film. In fact, DDD's OpticBOOM 3D Plug-in recently won the Best New Entertainment Technology Award at Internet World LA 2001.
There are many differences with VLI but two of them are: VLI had good publicity and followers but not the real goods that DDE has.
I am very long on DDE and bought cheap , |
