The first ever live stream of 3D NASCAR racing videos using Silverlight

July 3 will be the first in the history of the broadcast of 3D-video stream in real time from ongoing NASCAR racing competitions. The broadcast will take place thanks to technology Silverlight and Nvidia 3D Vision and will be held at www.nascar.com/racebuddy3d . Broadcast organizers Turner Sports, Nvidia and iStreamPlanet.

Nvidia was the first to integrate support for its 3D Vision tool into the open framework of the Silverlight Media Framework , which will be used by iStreamPlanet to organize broadcasts and create a full-featured video player in user browsers.
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This broadcast has the following key features:

- This is the first broadcast in the history of this 3D-video in the browser, carried out by the usual plug-in (Silverlight) without the need for special 3D-players. “Real 3D” means delivering a discrete stereo image at a frequency of 60Hz, that is, without anaglyph or passive interlaced scanning;
- if you are familiar with 3D Vision, then you know that 3D in it is available only in full screen mode, but this broadcast will allow you to watch 3D video and in window mode;
- This is the first live streaming of adaptive 3D video carried out using the HTTP protocol using Smooth Streaming.

Turner Broadcasting will create a 3D video stream at the scene of the race, and then transmit via satellite in 1080i format to iStreamPlanet in Los Angeles. The display format for the end user will be slightly different from the normal use of Smooth Streaming. The minimum size of the picture will be 480 × 224 @ 600 kbps, and the maximum 1280 × 720 @ 3.45 Mbps. On average, users can watch 3D-video with a picture in the resolution of 640 × 720. This is not as much as we would like, but note that this is the first experience of live video broadcast of 3D video on the Internet.

TNT RaceBuddy 3D website is ready to show you the capabilities of 3D broadcast and video player. Click on the Player Demo website to go to the demo videos. To view you will need a set of 3D-glasses NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit , which come with 3D-computers, for example, with a laptop Asus G51J. Without glasses, you can get some idea of ​​the picture by squeezing it tightly, but without closing your eyes to the end.

Good news for those who do not have glasses and equipment from Nvidia, but there are 3D-TVs. Just set the resolution of your signal from the PC to the TV at 1280 × 720, run the player in full screen mode and you will receive a 3D image on your TV!