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Sharp to Sell 3D laptop for $3299
prostoalex writes "The laptop that allows the user to view the 3D images without the special glasses is finally being sold by Sharp. The price tag is $3299. Actius 3DRD runs Pentium 4 2.8 GHz with 512 MB DDR SDRAM and is also capable of displaying two images in parallax."
From the details on Sharp's website:
Includes 3 free Electronic ArtsTM games to showcase the capabilities of the RD3D! Test your cool with James Bond 007: Nightfire, hit the road with Need for SpeedTM Hot Pursuit 2 or putt for dough in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR(R) 2003. All 3 are yours when you order the new RD3D for a limited time.
Yeah, because there's a huge audience of 3D golf afficiandos with $3300 spare. (On the other hand, the integrated hybrid DVD-writer is pretty. It'd be neat if they had software for partial 3D rendering of DVD movies.
So, uh, any guesses on how many years before this technology hits the $500 price point?
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
After the last time /. published the story about the 3d laptop, I was engulfed by this urge to try out anaglyph (red-blue) games/software on my machine. What ensued was a frenzy of activity spanning about a week:
1. I purchased a 3-d jigsaw puzzle from Wal-mart for $15, which came with red-blue glasses. (A wiser idea would've been to go see SpyKids 3d for $6 and save the glasses (which I did later anyway)).
2. I downloaded and installed Anaglyph Stereo Quake and had hours of headachy fun.
3. Downloaded some simple shooter/roller coaster type games from stereo3d.com This site, btw, has a cool chart listing software for which 3d patches have been released, graphics cards supported etc. A really interesting quote about 3d API's:
"The reason why 3D-API's are important for 3D-glasses is the fact games written for these interfaces supply genuine 3D-information in a standard format. These 3D-informations (i.e. depth-informations, Z-values) can be utilized by special universal 3D-glasses-drivers to create real 3D-imagery."
Can't wait for the prices for 3d displays to come down.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
We experimented with a similar display from Dimension Technologies, Inc.. Here's how it works if you are interested.
It's pretty cool but you don't have much room to move around and we'd get headaches after about half an hour of using it.
Ascalante: Your bride is over 3,000 years old.
Kull: She told me she was 19!