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."

Comments

Are there any brick and mortar stores

[Throtex]

... that carry these 3D display laptops? I'd like to actually see the damned things before I buy one, you know!

And wow, 1.3 hours of battery life. Looks like I'd need to get a really long extension cord to retain portability. :)

actually, since the first 3-d laptop was announced

[way2trivial]

I've been wondering, how long until we have digital cameras that have dual element ccd's

digital sterescopic imagery... for said laptops...

I'd love to take some 3-d pictures of my son for example.. esp if I could rotate the shots a few degrees....

Who is moderating the posts here?

[The MESMERIC]

I've never seen such a set of unbelievable foul modding down of genuine posts!

I mean the arsehole is not being unfair (for that you need inteligence) - he is just thick, a simpleton, on auto-mode: barely reading the posts and clicking-in the radio-buttons.

This modding system would work if we had slick/cool/wise people doing it - but not by idiots like these.

NB: I am *NOT* saying this for myself - but seeing interesting remarks modded down stupidly (from people that have way more to offer than our moron in question) - does somewhat piss me off!

Re:First thing I noticed...

[NanoGator]

"..was that in that hefty 30 line writeup, nowhere is the cost of all of this stuff mentioned. I bet it's still all out of my price range. :-("

This is typical of new technology. Comes out expensive, gets popular, then gets relatively cheap. Early adopters that pay lots of $$$ for the new stuff help pay for the R&D that goes into it. Don't be discouraged, rather just expect to wait another year or two.

That's pretty sad.

[blair1q]

When the MIT Media Lab puts up a webpage about a display, and it's all text, you know there's some suck built right in.

Barking Up The Wrong Tree

[jaghatarjankare]

I think they're all barking up the wrong tree.

This 3D thing is not about making something in 2D 'appear' to be 3D, but about really making it 3D.

I mean holograms and stuff, but far beyond.

I mean when you want to save a file, you literally reach out and grab it in your fist and drop it in a folder and whoosh there it goes in the folder and its saved.

When you want to open a file, you literally pry a folder open with your fingers and then select from the contents within.

You could also use the 'office cabinet' algorithm. Someone will figure it out.

But we won't need keyboards and mice much longer. We'll talk to the danged things. And we'll have a manual override so you can 'reach out and touch it' and do it yourself.

And yes, for the fringe groups, this will mean porn comes to an all-new hi-tech level.