3D HDTV without glasses
Actually, I'll still have to wear glasses because my eyesight is so poor. I just won't have to wear 3D glasses. Newsight Corporation just demonstrated their real-time 3D HDTV images at the IFA show. No special glasses are required because of the method and technology used.Utilizing software processing, HD video streams are passed through a converter chip that creates eight stereo views on-the-fly. A proprietary filter is applied so that each of the eight views is projected in eight slightly different directions on an LCD monitor. The human eye detects the different scenes and perceives a three-dimensional view.
According to Newsight, they intend to apply this technology to one of the 2006 World Cup events. I can just imagine people ducking from a soccer ball that will never hit them.
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JJ @ Sep 15th 2005 9:48AM
Looks cool :)
Ross Stokell @ Sep 19th 2005 11:38PM
This disclosure is a teaser from the company or companies that hope that the stereoscopic 3D format they are promoting will become the standard, and they will reap the benefits. It is actually nothing new, just a novel description of a method that was once applied to postcards (in the 1970's) called a lenticular grid, sometimes a lenslet filter. The bad news is that it does not work as described, and only provides an (apparent) dimensional relief under strict test conditions, (that do not include moving image sequences!).
Sharp has accepted the plausability of the hype enough to deliver so-called "autostereoscopic 3D equipped" laptops to the marketplace during the last twelve months. They look kinda cute, and they sort of work, but only on the still images in the demo package. It is not "real" 3D though, and the computer cannot play (IMAX 3D, DVD's for instance) any format of 3D media, apart from anaglyph-coloured filter glasses(which can be played on any laptop or TV with a DVD drive. There are currently no content providers or creators that I know of who have created the specific 3D content that COULD be played using the Sharp (sub-licenced) system. I will provide an algorithm/software package if they can afford it, but the result, at best will leave the casual observer yawning, and the product/content will not be able to be displayed effectively on any other current system.
Ross Stokell, Technologist, Futurist, Inventor.
Chris LAgergren @ Nov 3rd 2005 12:03PM
The Company they are referencing is Opticality Corporation who owns the patent for the method being described, which utilizes 9 views, thus reducing the resolution of the original image by 1/9 for each view. I have seen computer generated content on their plasma screens, for advertising, but no full motion video. We are also in the 3D without glasses display business and siginificant advances are being made in alot of different technologies at the moment. Including software and hardware which takes 2D images/video and converts it to 3D on the fly (http://www.dti3d.com). This is the beginning of a new era and you soon might be replacing your television with a 2D/3D switchable set. It's coming.