CES Show & New Controls For The Colourist

As a Colourist I like to keep abreast of what’s going on in the entertainment industry as pertains to, you guessed it, colour. The CES Consumer and Electronics Show recently finished up in Las Vegas and there were some pretty interesting products that came out of it. Among them there was all sorts of new flat panels. From the extremely large Panasonic and Pioneer and Sony right down to the Alienware curved computer panels, http://ces.cnet.com/8301-13855_1-9842798-67.html.

It would be so amazing if a colour correction suite developed to the point where you could take advantage of the flat panel technology for both the user interfaces and displays. There is such an explosion with the technology, such as wide gamut displays, that there doesn’t seem to be standardization for the flat panels for us to work with in film and television. The quality of the flat panels seems to be a little inconsistent. This still needs to be addressed.

I also saw some VR glasses that looked really interesting. Again, as far as colour correction is concerned can you imagine a scenario a few years from now where the Colourist is using a totally different set of controls to effect the colour changes of an image? What about wearing VR glasses that are colour balanced and wide gamut OLED technology.
http://www.inition.com/inition/product.php?URL_=product_glove_immersion_hapticworkstation&SubCatID_=26 .
A Colourist could just stand in a room that is 17 feet square and wear the virtual reality gloves and colour correct a scene by moving arms around, staring at blank walls while watching the television program in the VR glasses.
Stu Maschwitz was talking of images from the Minority Report. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000928.html

I know this sounds a little wild but there has to be something better than sitting in a room and having to look down at a control panel instead of keeping your eyes on the screen. I’m not crazy; I just thought it would make an interesting point of discussion. Think about it.