No 3D Glasses Required
No 3D Glasses required is something both Toshiba and Nintendo have in mind.
Toshiba announced that they will be producing 12″ and 20″ screens by December 2010, and Nintendo announced their new Nintendo 3DS console, both of which can display 3D imagery with no need for the 3D glasses.
In current 3D TVs, images for each eye are displayed rapidly one after the other. Filters in the glasses flash on and off in sync with the TV picture so the right eye sees one image and the left eye sees the next.
Toshiba’s technology uses an integral imaging system called a “light field” display to create 3D without glasses over a thirty degree viewing angle. 3D TVs can simulate depth because they deliver a slightly different image to each eye. Toshiba’s custom developed LCD (over 8 Million pixels) which sits behind a thin sheet of small lenses allow multiple imagery to be sent to each eye and broadcast to 9 “sweetspots” in 720P. This will render the 3D illusion to multiple viewers.
Nintendo uses the same or possibly similar technology in their upcoming console release debuted as Nintendo 3DS on a 3.53-inch widescreen LCD display; with 800×240 pixel resolution (400 pixels are allocated for each eye to enable 3D viewing).
What I am interested in seeing the average mobility for the “sweetspot”. If you, like me, are an avid gamer or are interested in 3D, I’m sure you have played with Nvidia’s 3D Stereoscopic drivers. This allows you with the use of 3D glasses to play games in 3D, however that being said it takes some tweaking of the 3D settings in the drivers or game (if supported) to make this effect really have an impact. Now without the need for glasses it means that the “sweetspot” for viewing the toshiba’s 12″ and 20″ will be limited but how limited remains to be seen.
As for the 3DS console I’m really looking forward to getting my hands on one of those as you will have complete control over the “sweetspot” as its small enough to fit in your hands, allowing you the mobility to control the position of the console in your hands and not of your body/furniture as required by a TV in your house.
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→ Daniel Hall said on: November 6, 2010 at 6:17 pm
3D TV without glasses – now that’s what I am talking about, technology is changing at such a rapid pace and I am loving it