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More 3D Displays to Come
Anonymous Writer writes "The first laptop using an autostereo display to show images in 3D without special glasses was the Sharp Mebius PC-RD3D in Japan, later released in the US as the Sharp Actius RD3D. NEC has a line of computers with autostereo displays as well. They are the NEC Valuestar T VT900/8D desktop, the LaVie S LS900/9E laptop, and LaVie RX LR700/8E laptop. The line uses NEC's SoundVu technology that uses the display as a speaker! Autostereo displays are becoming more popular according to Martyn Williams and Tom Krazit from the IDG News Service. In their article in PC World, they claim laptops are just the start of it. A new satellite service by Mobile Broadcasting will be broadcasting 3D content to handheld devices in Japan some time soon. Another player in this market is Dynamic Digital Depth (mentioned in a previous post of mine), whose content services convert 2D video to 3D for display in this medium. Sanyo may be releasing 50-inch Plasma Displays that can display 3D. MIT's Media Laboratory is developing a more advanced 3D display, calling it a full resolution autostereoscopic display, that would allow a viewer to walk around and not lose the 3D effect, which current autostereo displays can't do."
I don't want to be an smartass... but the SoundVu technology is not property of NEC, it was developed by NXT... just a word...
If you click on the Sharp Actius RD3D link and then click "Where to Buy", they show you the direct-from-the-manufacturer cost and allow you to purchase it.
If it's worth it, I'd buy it. It's running at $2,999.00 at this moment. Can't really tell if it's worth it by looking at a picture of it over the Internet, though.
This friendly AC claims that the new autostereoscopic displays will allow us, poor one eyed people, to experience 3D.
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I know that 3D pr0n is on the way using dual dv cams and dual webcams.
Realtime-3d.com makes the driver for the stereo multiplexing. They are even building 3d models in realtime so you could shift your viewing angle without moving the cameras.
In terms of autostereo displays, I've used a couple and they are very restrictive. DTI makes one for about $1300. You can't move much though.
For my money, I'm waiting for OLED displays. They'll have faster refresh rates than CRTs (supposedly) so they'll be able to handle shutter glasses. I've heard through the grapevine that the company that makes X3D shutter glasses is on the verge of shutter glasses for LCD monitors, but the refresh rate should really suck.
Finally, there is one other interesing technology. Micropolarizers overlay your LCD screen. You wear polarized glasses and the monitor is stereo. The overlays are $600-ish for a 15 inch screen though.
Check this out if you want a 3D display for protein structures.
Have you heard of Big3D.com? They can produce large lenticular prints. However they use Photoshop layers to produce the 3D effect, so although there will be parallax between the layers, each layer will appear flat.
Canon was going to produce a 3D lens for their XL1 DV cam, but they canned the idea.
SeeReal and other stereo monitor manufactures use a similar technique as the Sharp laptop, but the go one step further and track the viewers position and shift the internal LCD to face the viewer. This improves the small view angle, but make the monitor thicker and wider to accommodate the clearance required for the shifting.
The drivers for nVidia cards have built-in stereo 3d support for anaglyph (red/blue) and page flip modes. I've herd if you turn the drivers onto page flip mode they work with these fancy new 3d monitors, basically flipping from left to right eye images with every other frame. This is why alot of the laptops coming with these fancy monitors include an nvidia card, as ATI has absolutely no stereographic 3d support.
The nvidia 3d drivers work fine with most all 3d (opengl or directx) games and applications. I've personally played some games with the nerdy 3d glasses and the nvidia drivers, and they work great. It's kind of a hidden feature most people don't know about.
The antiques might work well if you print your images side-by-side.
I'm sort of an expert, in that I have had dual mono-scopic vision for almost 40 years now.
People without stereoscopic vision who are that way because of large deviations in the angle at which their eyes point will get no 3-D from any form of 3D technology.
Why, well I have 6 degree vertical separation between my eyes, so when both my eyes are open simultaneously my brain has to ignore one of the images to cope.
So it will continue to ignore one of the stereo images even if produced artificially.
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ICM has built in support for a 3d solution using special glasses and special software to interlace the image, its pretty cool. Beyond that though, ICM has to be the least appreciated and most full featured molecular biology software package out there, and the viewer (ICM-Lite) is free to download.
-ashot
That is great and all, but I believe the problem with all that, is that you -still- can't intereact with the 3D object you're seeing, at the place where it -appears-.
Yes you can. There are 3D input devices such as mice, joysticks, gloves, and haptic devices.