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Viewsonic demos its 3D video camera and display frame
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Demo doesn't quite go to plan at IFA 2010
Wed Sep 01 2010, 13:48
A 3D VIDEO CAMERA with a display that does not need glasses to see the video in its eye boggling glory and a photo frame that shows still and moving images in glorious three dimensions, again without spectacles, can be seen in the video above. Viewsonic's Mike "from Taiwan" talked us through the use of the video camera and the prototype photo frame, called the 3D Digital Video, model number 3D B5, until it refused to work for him. But The INQUIRER can vouch that it worked earlier, in true Tomorrow's World fashion. µ
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I watched the associated video and it still looks 2D to me.
For a while the electronics giants were flirting with lenticular 3D displays. Then they went shutter glasses for a hot second. Now they are pushing passive polarized... and then Viewsonic comes out with a lenticular display.
So what is the hold-up on shadeless 3D displays? One may freely purchase lenticular stereographic overlays for many different models of netbooks, laptops and desktop displays. Sharp and Fuji both have portable consumer electronics with these displays as well.
Now Viewsonic.
Me perhaps thinks the lenticular display was repressed by the industry while they still had time to ram a bunch of expensive shutter-shades through their elite-end boutique market.
I also think they avoided developing passive stereoscopic displays for that reason as well.
Every night, I kneel and pray to Jebus that the US govt. will set up a Guantanamo-style kangaroo court for those CEOs of Sony, Toshiba, LG, et al. who have, over the years, willfully colluded amongst themselves to prevent consumers from watching overwhelmingly boring and trite 3D films (produced and sold by their very same companies) in the dwindling privacies of their own homes.
Not a true story. I still find it "interesting" though that we don't have lenticular displays for sale at the mall yet. :P
http://evil-wire.org/~epsas/3dProjection.html