Nintendo 3DS teardown report posted

TechOn teardown team got hold of the Nintendo 3DS and posted a long teardown report. It isn't finished yet (they're still updating it) - but it's already an interesting read - especially as they dismantled the 3D display first, so you can see photos and details about the parallax-barrier LCD. Here's a closeup photo of the barrier film:

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Independent investor Deisler De Leon Vargas invented a new 3D heads-up-display (HUD) technology, based around one single display (as opposed to today's HUD systems that use dual displays). Here's a video explaining his technology:

One of his patents has been approved, and several more has been filed. Dieisler now wants to find a company that will commercialize this technology - and is looking to sell his patents.

Read more over at Diesler's 3D technology page

(3d-display)

Tommy Chung

華碩沈振來表示今年將會有 3D 平板、MeeGo / Android netbook，明年還會加碼 Windows Phone 手機？！

http://chinese.engadget.com/2011/03/05/asus-jerry-shen-pledges-3d-tablet-meego-and-android-netbooks/

Tommy Chung

Flashplayer即將步入三維(3D)時代

http://tech.weiphone.com/2011-03-01/Flashplayer_about_to_enter_the_3D_era_231460.shtml

Only Chen

TechOn teardown team got hold of the Nintendo 3DS and posted a long teardown report. It isn't finished yet (they're still updating it) - but it's already an interesting read - especially as they dismantled the 3D display first, so you can see photos and details about the parallax-barrier LCD. Here's a closeup photo of the barrier film:

(3d-display-info)

Tommy Chung

Researchers aim to 'print' human skin

Each cell type is placed in a vial, rather than in cartridges. The cells are then "printed" directly on the wound.

Researchers are developing a specialized skin "printing" system that could be used in the future to treat soldiers wounded on the battlefield.

Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine were inspired by standard inkjet printers found in many home offices.

"We started out by taking a typical desktop inkjet cartridge. Instead of ink we use cells, which are placed in the cartridge," said Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the institute.

The device could be used to rebuild damaged or burned skin.

The project is in pre-clinical phases and may take another five years of development before it is ready to be used on human burn victims, he said.

Other universities, including Cornell University and the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, are working on similar projects and will speak on the topic on Sunday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington. These university researchers say organs -- not just skin -- could be printed using similar techniques.

Burn injuries account for 5% to 20% of combat-related injuries, according to the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine. The skin printing project is one of several projects at Wake Forest largely funded by that institute, which is a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Wake Forest will receive approximately $50 million from the Defense Department over the next five years to fund projects, including the skin-creating system.

Researchers developed the skin "bio-printer" by modifying a standard store-bought printer. One modification is the addition of a three-dimensional "elevator" that builds on damaged tissue with fresh layers of healthy skin.

The skin-printing process involves several steps. First, a small piece of skin is taken from the patient. The sample is about half the size of a postage stamp, and it is taken from the patient by using a chemical solution.

Those cells are then separated and replicated on their own in a specialized environment that catalyzes this cell development.

"We expand the cells in large quantities. Once we make those new cells, the next step is to put the cells in the printer, on a cartridge, and print on the patient," Atala said.

The printer is then placed over the wound at a distance so that it doesn't touch the burn victim. "It's like a flat-bed scanner that moves back and forth and put cells on you," said Atala.

Once the new cells have been applied, they mature and form new skin.

Specially designed printer heads in the skin bio-printer use pressurized nozzles -- unlike those found in traditional inkjet printers.

The pressure-based delivery system allows for a safe distance between the printer and the patient and can accommodate a variety of body types, according to a 2010 report from the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine.

The device can fabricate healthy skin in anywhere from minutes to a few hours, depending on the size and type of burn, according to the report.

"You are building up the cells layer after layer after layer," Atala said.

Acquiring an adequate sample can be a challenge in victims with extensive burns, he said, since there is sometimes "not enough (skin) to go around with a patient with large burns," Atala said.

The sample biopsy would be used to grow new cells then placed in the printer cartridge, said Atala.

Researchers said it is difficult to speculate when the skin printer may be brought to the battlefield, because of the stringent regulatory steps for a project of this nature. Once the skin-printing device meets federal regulations, military officials are optimistic it will benefit the general population as well as soldiers.

"We're not making anything military-unique," said Terry Irgens, a program director at the U.S Army Medical Materiel Development Activity.

"We hope it will benefit both soldier and civilian," he said.

In the meantime, researchers said they're pleased with results of preliminary laboratory testing with the skin printer.

Atala said the researchers already have been able to make "healthy skin."

(CNN)

Tommy Chung

Cornell University scientists use 3D printer to engineer human ear made of silicone

Welcome to the future, where scientists can print body parts. No, seriously: researchers at Cornell University have used 3D printing technology to engineer a human ear out of silicone. This should one day soon open the door to the creating functional human body parts using DNA-injected 'ink.' The team at the Computational Synthesis Laboratory, led by Hod Lipson, are now testing the printer as a way to crank out synthetic heart valves. Check out the ear being synthesized in the video after the break.

(engadget)

Tommy Chung

Comcast's Xfinity 3D channel now broadcasting, they served over 1 million 3D VODs

http://www.3d-display-info.com/comcasts-xfinity-3d-channel-now-broadcasting-they-served-over-1-million-3d-vods

Tommy Chung

Sony's VPL-VW90ES high-end 3D projector is now shipping

http://www.3d-display-info.com/sonys-vpl-vw90es-high-end-3d-projector-now-shipping

Tommy Chung

三星、LG電子南韓兩巨頭 2011年將出貨1500萬台3D TV

儘管消費者對3D立體電視的反應平平，但世界上最大的平面電視製造商三星電子，LG電子對三維電視未來仍持樂觀態度。兩家公司分別於上週表示將在今年提高三維電視銷售量，總目標共達 1500萬台，以互相競爭並應對日本索尼和松下等公司的市場競爭。

韓國的巨頭三星於上週四表示，預計 2011年三星將銷售 1000萬台3D立體電視，是去年200萬台數量的五倍。三星電子視覺顯示業務總裁尹噓聲根稱，三星公司的智能三維電視產品採用的主動快門玻璃技術，效果要比其他三維技術更加優秀，市場會做出判斷。

而全球第二大電視製造商LG電子電子則表示，他們計劃 2011年出售4000萬台電視，其中500萬台三維電視，力爭拿下全球智能電視市場 20％的份額。LG電子家庭娛樂部門負責人Havis權稱，他們將採用玻璃鋼新技術，解決圖像模糊和閃爍等問題，眼鏡成本僅 10美元，同時眼鏡也比特殊眼鏡輕 3倍。

來自：威鋒網（weiphone.com）

Tommy Chung

40奈米3D電視晶片全球首顆

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/110217/4/2mjlb.html

Tommy Chung

MIT Media Labs created a new 'actuated surface' called Recompose. It's actually a gesture-controlled 3D display. The system uses the "Relief table" that consists of 120 pins which can change in height - and so they can act as both input and visual output. The system includes a depth camera above for the gesture control. Here's a very cool video explaining it all:

via MIT

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Tommy Chung

LG Electronics says that their plan is to sell 5 million 3D TVs in 2011. It's overall TV sales target is 40 million (about 35M LCDs and 5M plasma TVS) - so 3D TVs will account for 12.5% of all TVs. The company is betting on the passive (polarized) 3D technology, although they're also making active-shutter TVs. LG estimates the total 3D TV market will be 14 million sets - so they aim to grab 35% of the market.

LG PZ550 3D TV

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Only Chen

Samsung is said to be working on a new 4" WVGA glasses-free 3D display that can be controlled by moving your phone (Samsung calls this "Motion UI") - for example you can zoom in (or out) by tilting your phone or pan in Google Maps by moving it. It's not clear whether this 3D display is an OLED or an LCD.

It obviously makes sense for Samsung to be working on such a display - Sharp is already shipping such displays and LG has already unveiled their own 4.3" 3D display.

via OLED-Info

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Tommy Chung

200-Inch Glasses-Free 3D Display: Do I Have a Big Enough Wall?

Bigger screens are the way to go. I just can’t wait to have a screen that’s the size of my whole living room wall. Although this seems like science-fiction, it might not be because NICT has unveiled a 200-inch glasses-free 3D screen that might actually make me want to watch 3D stuff.

200-inch nict japan screen hdtv led 3d

NICT’s screen is currently the largest glasses-free display, but big hitters like Sony, Samsung and LG are all working on similar technology. The NICT screen addresses a few issues that plague glasses-free 3D: strip noise, reduction in 3D resolution, and unnatural images due to the observer’s movements. Apparently, the noise between parallax images is caused by uniformity of color and brightness between the images. By adjusting these using power-adjusted LED light sources, and using a special diffuser film and condenser lens, they were able to greatly improve image quality.

200-inch nict japan screen hdtv led 3d

For now, the screen can assemble 3D scenes from up to 50 parallax images, but they plan on increasing capacity to 200 images, which will improve viewing angels significantly. I wouldn’t mind having this screen in my pad, although I wonder if I have a wall big enough.

[via Akihabara News via DVice]

(technabob)

Tommy Chung

3net 24/7 3D channel launches this weekend, but only on DirecTV

The number of 24/7 broadcasting 3D channels in the US will go from one to three next week, now that Sony, Imax and Discovery have announced the launch of their channel, 3net, on DirecTV alongside its existing n3D channel and ESPN 3D, which will start looping its sports videos 24/7 on Valentine's Day. Scheduled to go live at 8 p.m. Sunday night on channel 107 it promises fresh debuts all month with a new show added to the rotation every night at 9 p.m. It's big promise is to "offer viewers the largest library of native 3D entertainment content in the world by the end of 2011" although any 3D TV owners who don't have DirecTV would probably just be glad if it got added to their channel lineups anytime soon, check the press release after the break for all the details.

(engadget)

Only Chen

AU Optronics (AUO) plans to start shipping glasses-free 3D displays for laptops and monitors in 2011, and the company expects that such technology will become mainstream in 1-2 years.

AUO also estimates that 3D TVs will account for about 6% of the total LCD TV shipments in 2011 (which is expected to be around 215 million TVs - so this means about 13 million 3D TVs).

(3d-display-info.com)

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有了中小尺寸的裸視3D Display設計經驗，畫面精緻的平價中大型(42"以上)裸視3D Display就可期待。

Only Chen

LG confirms Optimus 3D for MWC 2011: glasses-free screen and 3D camera

We've had a feeling that LG was going to tackle 3D smartphones heads-on sometime in February, and after a spat of rumors today purported to be showing off the Optimus 3D (pictured above, via Phandroid), the company's flat-out confirmed its Mobile World Congress debut. The Optimus 3D sports a dual-lens 3D camera, a glasses-free LCD display, and HDMI / DLNA for sharing on whatever 3D sets you have. A live demo will be at Barcelona, but whether that means we'll get to hold it in our own hands. Other specs? We'll have to wait and find out. Press release after the break.

(engadget)

Only Chen

Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) create a new projector-system that can be used to produce a 200" glasses-free HD display. NICT uses 64 projectors and collaborated with JVC Kenwood to develop this technology, which also includes a special film and condenser lens in the screen.

NICT now plans to develop an upgraded system that uses 200 projectors... via CrunchGear.

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Only Chen

Sensio announced today that Zoran will integrate their Hi-Fi 3D decoding technology into new system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for 3D-capable audiovisual products, including TVs and set-top boxes (STBs).

SENSIO® Hi-Fi 3D is a unique frame-compatible technology for high-fidelity stereoscopic signal processing, easily integrated into display products. Developed by SENSIO more than 10 years ago and deployed in the field for seven years, this mature technology has been trusted by the biggest names in content creation for every commercial live 3D event presented in cinemas around the world, as well as for high-profile console games and DVD movies. This agreement is the sixth signed by SENSIO with major semiconductor manufacturers in the past year.

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Tommy Chung

1.2GHz Tegra 2 3D chips suggested by leaked slide, coming 'spring 2011'

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/23/1-2ghz-tegra-2-3d-chips-suggested-by-leaked-slide-coming-sprin/

Only Chen

New iPod Touch to Get Glasses-Free 3D Display? [Rumors]

http://technabob.com/blog/2011/01/16/new-ipod-touch-3d-display-rumor/

Tommy Chung

Man discovers glasses-free 3D tech in the blink of an eye

Who's got two thumbs and needs glasses to see 3D? Not this guy! Francois Vogel's figured out a way to remove those pesky spectacles from the equation, and he's ready to revolutionize the stereoscopic industry forever. Sure, you'll need a monitor with a 120Hz refresh rate, but that's a prerequisite these days anyhow, and the rest is sweet, sticky gravy dished directly to your eyeballs. Get a sneak peek at the game-changing tech in the video above, and keep an eye out for unicorns (we're sure they're around here somewhere). You'll never look at 3D the same way again, we promise.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Kotaku

Jonathan Post

(engadget)

Only Chen

富士通首推裸視3D電腦毋須眼鏡

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/110113/19/2kq0d.html

Tommy Chung

Polariod is showing a new reference board that uses Movidius' glasses-free mobile 3D display. This is a small display, aimed for mobile phones. Polariod says that this reference design can become commercial for tablets by the end of 2011. The platform includes 2D to 3D conversion for video and images.As you can see in the photo, there are two displays - the 3D one is on the left, the right one is just a 'controller display'.

via DVice

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Tommy Chung

5 things we learned at CES

(1) 3D不會消失

(2)Android 平板夠熱

(3)hawking gadgets小工具包

(4)家電聯網與資訊化

(5)Gadget Transformers

(CNN)

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/01/10/ces.big.ideas/index.html

Only Chen

VideoEFX Converts 2D Video to 3D

One of the more interesting little finds I saw over at CES was this gadget which claims to convert any of your 2D content into 3D on the fly.

video_efx_3d_converter

The VideoEFX takes content from your 2D video sources and instantaneously converts it into 3D for viewing on 3D-enabled sets. Now Samsung has a similar feature built into some of their higher-end sets, but at least in the demo I saw at the show, the VideoEFX did a much better job creating the illusion of 3D from 2D content. The box has three HDMI inputs, and a single HDMI output you can connect to your TV, so you can hook up your game console, Blu-ray player and satellite or cable box and add 3D to all of them. For times when you want to watch native 2D or 3D content, just into bypass mode.

video_efx_3d_converter_engadget

I’m not exactly sure how it works its magic, but I watched a game of Halo: Reach, as well as a live football game, and live video from the booth – each processed by a prototype of the device, and was quite impressed as to how much depth it adds to those 2D image sources. While I’m reasonably certain it’s physically impossible for it to really discern 3D data points, the effect is compelling enough that you might want one of these if you’ve got a 3D TV and are looking to increase your content library instantly. It’s certainly way better than you’d think , especially when you look at the quality of their cheezy flyer:

video_efx_3d_converter_flyer

…your desktop publisher called and he wants his copy of Aldus PageMaker 3.0 back. The VideoEFX hasn’t been released yet, but when it hits, it’ll sell for about $399 (USD).

[Image #2 Credit: Engadget]

(technabob)

Tommy Chung

Steam TV Elocity 3T glasses-free TV eyes-on

There's been no shortage of glasses-free 3D at CES but we can't' say we expected Steam TV, makers of those Elocity tablets, to be showing off wares of its own. While the company is promising lots of spectacle-free TVs with parallax screens in the next year, at its booth there was just a 42-inch 1080p 3T1 panel on the show floor. We've got mixed feelings about this one; as you can see in the gallery below, the display looks very grainy and the converted HD 2D-to-3D content, while it did look three dimensional (as much as you can say), it didn't appear to be high definition by any means. However, there was one nature clip that was apparently shot in 3D, which looked incredibly crisp. Yeah, it was almost like we were watching that waterfall from a helicopter overheard. We can't say the three-dee experience is as jaw-dropping as the one provided with active shutter glasses, but it is impressive to think you don't have to wear a piece of $100 technology on your face to get images jumping into your living room. Viewing angles were actually pretty impressive -- at least in comparison to the other glasses-free 3D displays we've seen -- and tilting our head slightly didn't throw off the 3D effect too much. Steam TV is planning to release the 3T1 in May along with a 52-inch version and then 56- and 60-inch versions in September -- that will have 'em beating Toshiba to market, but we're not quite sure in quality.

Stream TV Elocity glasses-free 3D eyes-on

(engadget)

Tommy Chung

以後的全息3D電視機，也許就是這個樣子

http://tech.weiphone.com/2011-01-08/After_the_holographic_television_229061.shtml

Tommy Chung

新技術使大腦的三維3D成像掃描可在半秒內完成

http://tech.weiphone.com/2011-01-10/New_technology_makes_3D_imaging_of_the_brain_scan_can_be_completed_within_half_a_second_229100.shtml

Only Chen

CES國際消費電子展平板電腦與3D最拉風

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/110107/78/2kech.html

Only Chen

CES 2011: Photo frame turns 2D snapshots into 3D, no glasses required

ViewSonic's latest photo frame has a clever trick up its sleeves: it converts standard 2D photos into 3D, then displays them on an eight-inch autostereoscopic display—meaning you won't need glasses to see the 3D effect. Neat? Sure. Great 3D quality? Read on.

On sale now for about $200, the ViewSonic 3DPF8 (not much of a name, I know) looks pretty much like your standard digital photo frame, complete with an SD/MMC memory card slot, a slideshow mode, and touch-sensitive controls on the front bezel.

Just plug your digital photos into the ViewSonic's memory card slot and the frame will interpolate the 2D image into 3D, which it then displays on its bright eight-inch 3D display (which, as I understand it, words its glasses-free magic with the help of parallax barrier technology).

OK, but does Viewsonic's 3D frame really do the trick? Well … sort of.

You do get a definite sense of depth from the image, with the photo appearing to stretch behind the frame. And if you're viewing the photo from precisely the right angle, you will get the uncanny sense that you're seeing an actual 3D image—although "sense" is the key word here.

After looking a little too hard, though, the double images in ViewSonic frame made me feel a little dizzy, mainly because it felt like my eyes were crossing. Not helping matters is the display's relatively low 800-by-600 resolution, meaning your treasured memories won't be getting the razor-sharp look they deserve.

So yes … the ViewSonic 3DPF8 makes for an interesting novelty, but I wouldn't rush out and drop $200 in the hopes that you'll get "Avatar"-level 3D out of your family scrapbook with the Viewsonic's help. You won't.

Still, that's not to say that there isn't any truly promising glasses-free 3D going on at CES this year. Toshiba, for one, is showing off a full-size no-glasses 3D display, and I'm hoping to get eyes-on with it Friday. Stay tuned for a full report.

(Yahoo!)

Only Chen

CES 2011：Toshiba 2011 年將推出大尺寸裸視 3D 電視

http://chinese.engadget.com/2011/01/06/toshiba-to-sell-big-screen-glasses-free-3d-hdtvs-in-2011/

Only Chen

此次CES 2011，SONY展示多款3D影音產品，也間接宣佈SONY從此商品全面3D化的來臨 !!

Tommy Chung

聯發科3D及智慧電視晶片 CES亮相

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=292789

Tommy Chung

Sony 3D Roadmap with 24.5 inch 3D OLED-Tv

Sony showcase at there CES-2011 press conference there 3D Television roadmap. At this roadmap we can see a 24.5 inch 3D-OLED-TV with 2K.Sony want also introduce a 56 inch 4K LCD Panel and a 46 inch 2K LCD Panel in the near future. Hope to get more infos tomorrow at the Sony booth!

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Tommy Chung

We do not know the release date yet, or the price. But Mitsubishi's 82" WD-82838 costs $3,669...

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Tommy Chung

DisplaySearch says that 3.2 million 3D TVs were sold in 2010, and they predict fast growth 18 million in 2011 and 91 million units in 2014. In 2010, only 4% of TVs sold (in 40" or larger sizes) were 3D TVs, and DisplaySearch says that lack of content is the main reason people are not quick to adopt the new technology.

(3d-display-info)

Tommy Chung

StreamTV to show new glasses-free 3D TVs, to be available by Q4 2011

Back in May 2010, we found an interesting page in Amazon showing 37" and 42" glasses-free 3D TVs ready for pre-order (the 37" model was advertised for $3,999 and the 42" for $5,999). The company behind them was StreamTV, which was unknown at the time...

Today We found a PR by StreamTV announcing that they will launch a new line of glasses-free 3D TVs called eLocity during CES 2011. StreamTV will also unveil glasses-free 3D photo frames and desktop computers. All devices will be available by Q4 2011. The company claims to have new technology that 'surpasses all other glasses-free 3D displays on the market'.
Hopefully this time StreamTV will be true to their word - those TVs shown in May in Amazon are still not shipping. The company has a website now, although the only available information is about a 7" tegra-powered Android tablet.

(3d-display-info)

Tommy Chung

Nvidia has launched a new online community for 3D-Vision users. The idea is to enable users to share 3D content - photos and videos on 3D-enabled PCs or notebooks.

(3d-display-info)

Tommy Chung

TV makers to put out 3-D sets with cheaper glasses

LAS VEGAS – TV makers are blaming disappointing sales of 3-D TVs last year in part on the bulky glasses they came with. They're trying to tackle that this year by introducing sets that work with lighter, cheaper glasses of the kind used in movie theaters.

Manufacturers don't plan to completely supplant the 3-D TVs that require the heavier, battery-powered glasses, which went on sale last year for the first time. But Samsung Electronics Co. estimates 1 million 3-D sets were sold in the U.S in 2010, far short of its initial estimate of 3 million to 4 million, and the introduction of a competing technology a year later is another sign that the first 3-D TVs didn't live up to expectations.

LG Electronics Inc. was the first major TV to announce new 3-D sets Wednesday, a day ahead of the opening of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. LG, a South Korean company, said it will start selling two models, a 47-inch and a 65-inch one, later this year that use the lighter, cheaper glasses. Each will include four pairs. Current 3-D sets usually include one or two pairs of the bulkier glasses; some don't include any, requiring consumers to pay about $100 per pair.

"We're meeting consumers' needs by eliminating some of the pain points" by addressing the 3-D glasses issue, said Tim Alessi, director of new product development at LG Electronics USA. "It's going to be the most comfortable viewing experience, just like going to the movies."

Vizio Inc., one of the largest sellers of TVs in the U.S. but not a leader in the high end of the market, which includes 3-D sets, announced in December that it would sell a 65-inch 3-D set with the lighter glasses.

The two types of glasses are called "active" and "passive," and each has its benefits and drawbacks.

Last year's TVs relied on active glasses, which have battery-powered shutters that alternately black out each of the eyes to create the 3-D effect. They worked with some high-end flat-panel TVs with little modification required, but they require periodic charging. They also darken the image and may make it flicker.

The lighter glasses, called passive, are not much different from polarized sunglasses. They don't cause video to flicker, and glasses from any manufacturer will work with sets from another manufacturer, or in movie theaters. They don't block as much light as the active shutters, either. However, they only work with LCD TVs that have an extra layer to the screen, and in LG's implementation, the passive glasses cut the resolution of the image in half.

Not all major manufacturers are on board with the new screen technology. Panasonic Corp., which along with Samsung pioneered 3-D TVs last year, is sticking to active glasses.

Paul Gray, an analyst from the research group DisplaySearch, said the dearth of 3-D movies and TV channels, rather than the glasses, was the main factor holding back the market.

"TV manufacturers really got ahead of themselves in 2010, and they forgot that a TV is a tool to watch content," Gray said.

DisplaySearch estimates 3.2 million 3-D sets were sold worldwide last year. Going forward, the research group seems confident that the content will come, and predicts the number of 3-D TVs sold will grow to 18 million this year.

Samsung announced Tuesday that it's developing 3-D sets for passive glasses with RealD Inc., which controls patents on 3-D technology. Unlike LG's new TV sets, these would provide a 3-D picture at full resolution through the inclusion of some added electronics in the set. Samsung didn't announce specific models or a launch date.

Further out, there's the prospect of 3-D TVs that don't require glasses, as demonstrated by Toshiba Corp. Tuesday. However, the image quality on these early models is poorer than with TVs that use glasses. The TVs also limit where viewers can sit or stand; outside those areas, the 3-D effect doesn't work and the picture looks fuzzy. Toshiba aims to have sets on the market late this year or early next year.

Sony Corp. said it's also working on glasses-free 3-D sets, but appears to be further from commercialization.

Glasses-free displays work better at small sizes, where the limited viewing "zones" are less of a concern. Sony said it was making a portable 3-D glasses-free Blu-ray disc player with a 10-inch screen. Nintendo Corp.'s new handheld game gadget will also have a 3-D screen.

Toshiba is demonstrating a laptop at the show with a no-glasses 3-D screen. It's not a first — Sharp sold such laptops in 2003. Toshiba's version improves on Sharp's by tracking the viewer's eyes to help make the 3-D effect more consistent. Toshiba said the laptop is a prototype, and has no firm marketing plans. Laptops and standalone computer monitors compatible with 3-D glasses have been available for years, but haven't caught on.

Sony demonstrated a prototype of another 3-D viewing system that's "all glasses and no TV." It's a big visor that covers the eyes, containing two small displays, one for each eye. Together, they produce a 3-D effect. Such "head-mounted displays" that present 2-D images have been available for some years, but the low resolution produced by the small displays has limited their popularity. Sony is using a new display technology, organic light-emitting diodes, that may provide a better experience.

(Yahoo!)

Tommy Chung

Toshiba's Glasses-Less 3DTVs Will Hit the US in 40 and 50-Inch Sizes (Updated)

Toshiba's Glasses-Less 3DTVs Will Hit the US in 40 and 50-Inch Sizes (Updated) Japan had the chance to buy Toshiba's GL1 3DTVs in December in 12 and 20-inch options, but the rest of the world will get the glasses-less 40 and 50-inch 3DTV models sometime this year, claims Reuters. Updated: Toshiba confirms!

Toshiba has confirmed, via a press release:

Las Vegas, 5th January 2011 – Toshiba today underlined its status as a leader in the field of consumer electronics innovation by announcing the commercial availability of glasses-free 3DTVs* with screens of more than 40'' (102cm) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The first large screen 3DTV models featuring glasses-free technology are expected to be available within Europe in fiscal year 2011 (April 2011 – March 2012).

Toshiba will also be showcasing samples of even larger screen sizes at CES, including a prototype of the world's first glasses-free 3DTV in 65" (165cm) screen size, as well as a 56" (142cm) sample.

Expertise in engineering and design
Toshiba has been able to introduce the world's first glasses-free 3DTV thanks to its expertise in design and engineering. The company has a strong heritage in designing software algorithms and developing powerful consumer electronics processing technology to calculate multiple view points from stereoscopic images, as well the expertise to ensure exceptional picture quality on a large screen. The products for the European market will use Toshiba's powerful CEVO-Engine, which is able to provide the extremely high-calculation power needed to run glasses-free 3D technology on the TV's large screens.

The glasses-free 3DTV prototypes showcased at CES have a screen size of 56'' (142 cm) and 65'' (165 cm). To display high resolution glasses-free 3D images, both feature a LED-backlighted panel with a 4096 x 2160 pixel resolution (4k2k panel). The Toshiba Integral Imaging technology applied to its glasses-free 3DTVs works with multiple view points that enable the human brain to see 3D images, while also allowing for a wide viewing angle. Thanks to a sophisticated view point overlay technology, users can even move their heads whilst watching 3D content without compromising the 3D effect.

An announcement regarding the availability of Toshiba glasses-free 3DTVs will be made in due course.

(gizmodo)

Tommy Chung

The 1080p 3D Bloggie Leads Sony's 3D Camera Onslaught

http://gizmodo.com/5726044/sonys-3d-camera-onslaught-3d-camcorders-3d-point+and+shoots-and-3d-bloggie

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Vizio announced several new 3D TV models that all use polarized 3D (via passive glasses), and they range from 32" To 71". The TVs include edge-lit LED LCDs and full-LED LCDs.

Vizio also announced a couple of Google TV-powered models, but these will not have 3D support.

(3d-display-info)

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Toshiba is showing a new glasses-free 3D laptop concept called the Qosmio. Beside the parallax-barrier LCD, the laptop also features an eye-tracking camera that can help to provide better 3D images (i.e. without a "dead-zone"). Although this works for just one viewer.

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Disney plans to release "at least" 15 3D Blu-ray titles in 2011. This will include Tron: Legacy and Tangled, and the 3D titles will be released together with the 2D versions.

via Engadget

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Vizio Announces Theater 3D HDTVs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110103/tc_pcworld/vizioannouncestheater3dhdtvs

Tommy Chung

Samsung showcase lightest 3d glasses in the world at CES-2011

Samsung will be introduce the lightest 3D glasses in the world at CES-2011.
In co-operation with the austrian company Silhouette Samsung reached the goal to reduce the weight by 10g.
The 3D glasses with advanced materials weight only 28g.
In addition the 3D glasses can detect if they are used or not with a automatically Auto Power on/off function.
As we reported Samsung Mobile Display show a A 19-inch qFHD Transparent AMOLED for TVs and monitors: World's first large-screen transparent AMOLED production prototype and a A 4.5-inch WVGA Flexible AMOLED offering world’s highest flexible display resolution at CES-2011.

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Tommy Chung

LG introduce Cinema 3D TV series, next generation FPR and 3D OLED-Tv panel at CES 2011

http://www.oled-display.net/lg-introduce-cinema-3d-tv-series-next-generation-fpr-and-3d-oled-tv-panel-at-ces-2011

Tommy Chung

The VBR333 is a 3D blu-ray player with wireless internet apps via built-in Wi-Fi, Full-HD 3D, 7.1 channels of surround sound and one HDMI output.

The VBR333 is now shipping for $179.

(3d-display-info)

Tommy Chung

The Nintendo 3DS Will Destroy Children's Eyeballs (No, Really)

http://gizmodo.com/5720422/the-nintendo-3ds-will-destroy-childrens-eyeballs-no-really

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It seems that Samsung is set to release a new 3D Blu-ray player at CES (January 2011) that will be the world's thinnest (at 23mm thick). Apparently it will enable 2D to 3D conversion, and also built-in youTube, twitter, facebook and other applications.

via SamsungTomorrow

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Only Chen

奇景3D電視晶片供貨夏普

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/0,5249,12050905x122010122800339,00.html

Tommy Chung

LG looks set to unveil mobile 3DTV at CES

We don't know much about it yet, but it's looking like we might be getting a taste of 3D on the go after all at CES. We'd hoped it would be with Nintendo's 3DS, but that report turned out to be a bust, and now LG is apparently going to pick up the slack with a new mobile digital TV that has a 3D display. We know virtually nothing about the set at this point, but we're thinking it will be glasses-free and are speculating that, after its appearance in Vegas next week, it'll never be seen in the US again.

Akihabara

(engadget)

Tommy Chung

LG Preparing Mammoth 72-inch 3D LCD for CES

Acronyms ahoy! LG says their LZ9700 is the world's largest 3D LED-backlit LCD TV (phew!), weighing in at a where-the-hell-am-I-going-to-put-this 72-inches large. See you at CES, you beast.

The set also boasts a 400Hz refresh rate and local dimming, as well as the now-standard set of USB inputs, DLNA support, and the ever ambiguous TV "apps." Putting this in your living room might be akin to sitting in the front row at a Tron IMAX showing, but we're still eager to give it a look in person. [LG via I4U]

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Stereoscopic copy-paste finally brings that clone tool into the third dimension (video)

With the right software anybody can be photo editing guru, eliminating redeye, removing unsightly blemishes, and maybe adding an image of Godzilla lurking in the background just for fun. However, if you've been unlucky enough to try to do the same in 3D you know just how distinctly unsatisfying that experience can be. Maybe not for long. Thanks to NewScientist we just caught a glimpse of an October presentation made by Swiss engineers Joren van Baar and Wan-Yen Lo called "Stereoscopic 3D Copy & Paste." It is, basically, exactly what it sounds like, tools that let you define various objects and planes on a stereoscopic image, similar to how you might grab a shape with the magic wand tool, and then duplicate it and move that shape around on both parts of the 3D photo. The software handles re-creating shadows, automatically tackling occlusion too, and while the results aren't perfect, particularly if you're trying to change perspective or partially occlude an object behind something that's transparent, it certainly trumps trying to do it by hand. Check out the video below and take a moment to be thankful that you didn't have to buy gifts for all those kids above.

NewScientist

Stereoscopic Copy & Paste

(engadget)

Tommy Chung

By 2015, Cellphones Will Do 3D Holographic Video Calls (Says IBM Survey)

By 2015, Cellphones Will Do 3D Holographic Video Calls (Says IBM Survey) Around this time every year, IBM surveys 3,000 researchers to find out what they think is going to be big in the future. This year, everyone's caught the FaceTime bug, and is looking forward to 3D hologram video calls.

The video calls will be projected from cellphones using pico-projector technology, according to the survey. Other "likely" technologies we can look forward to using in just five years' time are batteries powered by air (which will last 10 times' longer); computer programs crunching numbers for real-time traffic information (which makes me think none of those 3,000 people have ever used a sat-nav before); and heat-generation for homes, from computers and data centers. Anyone who's ever fired up a YouTube video or Photoshop to warm their naked thighs will know about that.

Don't go rushing out to buy shares in IBM just yet, however. They've been running this annual survey for four years now, with 2006's list of future technologies including instant speech translation—which is still floating out there in the future. [Bloomberg]

(gizmodo)

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Kinect and haptics combine at the University of Washington to let you feel the future (video)

Sure, looking at the future is great and all, and that's what we feel like we're doing with all these wonderful Kinect hacks we've been covering lately. But what about feeling the future, man? That's what the kids at the University of Washington BioRobotics Laboratory are up to, taking the 3D images created by Microsoft's gaming peripheral and combining that with a 3D haptic controller, what looks to be a SensAble Phantom to us. The result? A so-called "haptic handshake," which looks even more uncomfortable than when Hank and Dean do their "Go Team Venture" routine. You can see both embedded after the break and decide for yourself.

[Thanks, Jonas]

fredrikryden (YouTube)

(engadget)

Tommy Chung

Interview with MasterImage 3D chairman and CEO

Younghoon Lee is MasterImage 3D's chairman and CEO - and he was kind enough to answer a few questions we had for him...

Q: MasterImage 3D is active in several 3D markets. Can you provide a short overview of your products and solutions?

MasterImage 3D is focused on enabling 3D as a universal experience on any and all platforms. We believe that in the next five years nearly all content will be available in 3D, across broad arenas, as platforms and applications emerge. Today MasterImage 3D provides digital 3D systems for theaters, auto-stereoscopic 3D display technology for mobile smartphone and tablet devices, and a 3D camera ASIC that enables consumers to create and share 3D content.

We continue to grow very rapidly in the 3D cinema business and are making a large commitment to the 3D mobile business. Just recently, we brought in Roy Taylor from NVIDIA as EVP and GM of our 3D Display business.

We will be demoing our latest autostereo mobile technology at CES this year. Come see it at the 3D@Home TechZone booth. If you miss us there, we will also be at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February.
Q: Aren't you active with stereoscopic TVs?

Press and customer reaction to our glasses-free technology has been overwhelmingly positive. As good as it is today we are going to continue to improve it and this is where we will continue to focus. However, we expect our autostereoscopic technology to be ready for the 3D TV market in 2-3 years.

Q: Your glasses-free LCD solution uses parallax barrier. What's the largest display that can be made using this technology?

We currently have solutions for 4-5" smartphones and are equally interested in supporting the 7" and 11" tablet market. It is incredibly compelling to be able to have 3D content on tablet devices. We also are working on scaling the content to notebooks and monitors but a 24" product is not ready today.

Q: We know that Hitachi's Wooo 3D phone is using your technology. Can you tell us who actually manufactures the LCD?

Our technology supports an LCD display stack where we design, manufacture and supply a TN LCD which is face bonded onto a TFT LCD to create the barrier. We can work with any kind of display partner (TFT, OLED, PDP). In the case of Hitachi, we worked with Hitachi Display for their TFT LCD.

Q: How does your solution compare to Sharp's own 3D displays, as used in their new phones and the Nintendo 3DS?

The foundation of the MasterImage 3D display solution is our patented cell-matrix parallax barrier technology. There are other approaches to 3D autostereoscopy, including striped parallax barrier, stacking two thin-film transistor (TFT) displays and lenticular, but we believe that our approach is superior. A "cell gap" approach allows for horizontal and vertical barriers so that a device can play 3D in landscape and portrait. When you combine the research of our parallax technology with our hands-on experience on barrier design optimization, we provide a competitive balance of picture brightness and minimized crosstalk.

As we gear up to deploy the second generation of our autostereoscopic displays it is exciting to see new first-generation products emerging in this space because they are signs that 3D is moving beyond the theater into all aspects of our lives and that glasses-free technology is gaining a foothold.

Q: In your site you mention that the parallax-barrier technology can also be applied to OLED displays. Do you have any experience with such a solution?

MasterImage's solution is compatible with nearly all display technologies, including LCD, OLED, PDP, TFT and others. We have experience developing 3D displays with OLED and respect its brightness and sharpness as a solution. It is a display technology. As we evaluate solutions, we look at each partner with an eye to both cost and marketability.

Q: When do you think we can expect a glasses-free TV (of about 40" size) that has a down-to-earth price?

You hit on the key point - autostereoscopic displays for TVs are possible, but they’re not yet practical. The cost of manufacturing parallax barrier displays for larger screens is still prohibitive. We are optimistic that this will change over the next 2-3 years. A combination of TFT and TN LCDs improving their resolution quality and companies like MasterImage 3D providing wider 3D viewing angles will help bring this about.
Q: You also offer a 3D camera ASIC. Can you tell us the specification of your technology?

We believe that dual lens mobile cameras will become a standard feature on all 3D-enabled smartphones. Capturing and virally sharing 3D user-created content will be a major driver in 3D mobile consumption. Our 3D ASIC combines the left-eye and right-eye images from the two lens of the dual lens camera. Then, it stores the image as a single file format which can be processed by a normal backend camera processor. Our 3D ASICs makes it very easy for handset manufacturers to enable 3D cameras as all dual lens cameras interface with our solution. Since it is small in size and power consumption, it is ready-designed to be a mass-market component.

Q: Are there any 3D cameras on the market that are MasterImage 3D inside?

Our newest technology will be available March 2011.

Q: How do you see the 3D-at-home market in 3-5 years? What role will MasterImage 3D play?

We believe that within the next three years all next-generation smartphones and tablets will be 3D enabled. The display and chip technology are accessible and cost-effective. Plus, 3D greatly contributes to the overall consumer experience. This enhanced experience extends to mobile entertainment content like movies, broadcast television, gaming and apps, but quickly includes emerging content applications for 3D user-interface and business productivity. When you couple the addition of dual lens camera technology being included in mass-market cameras, 3D becomes the expected, not the high-end luxury. In the coming five years, we see 3D display technology as widespread across all of the screens in our lives—mobile, home appliance, automotive, airlines and many others.

Our role at MasterImage 3D is to be customizable to the needs of the entire 3D ecosystem. Thus, we aim to work across 2D display vendors, OEMs and chip architectures. With our existing relationships with Hollywood studios and the addition of Roy Taylor, empowering the imagination of content creators to prioritize 3D across multiple platforms is a strong priority.

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Tommy Chung

Vizio's New 65-inch 3DTV Promises Flicker-Free Picture on a Huger Screen

The mammoth 65-inch XVT3D650SV is more than just super big. Vizio claims the set's 3D display, forgoing battery-powered, active shutter glasses, looks better and is nicer to eyeballs. They're also boasting less ghosting, a brighter image, and superior edge backlighting.

In addition to the picture improvements (always nice to see companies doing away with bulky glasses), the XVT3D650SV will pack a suite of internet apps (Amazon VoD, Facebook, Flickr, Netflix, Rhapsody, Pandora, and Twitter, most notably) via 802.11n Wi-Fi. Look for the sets to arrive at Costco and Sam's Club this month for $3500. All this being said, we've yet to actually lay eyes on a passive 3D set that hasn't looked terrible, so we're going to reserve judgment until we can see for ourselves at CES—though CNET's HDTV guru had a peek and says it fared well. [Vizio]

(gizmodo)

Tommy Chung

How to Make Your Own 3D Glasses (You'll Want These Next Week, Trust Us)

We have something special coming up next week, and a pair of 3D glasses will come in mighty handy. So while you're running around Christmas shopping, pick up some blue and red cellophane and follow this guide. [Paper Project, NASA]

P.S. You can make 3D glasses cookies too.

(gizmodo)

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Dixon, which is the largest electrical supplier in the UK says that 3D TV sales are surging - in fact in the past two weeks almost 30% of TV sold (32" or larger) has been 3D TVs.

via MarketingMagazine.co.uk

(3d-display-info)

3D TV在英國銷售佳,在美國銷售不好 ?!

Only Chen

LG Display is showing a new kind of polarized 3D panel - the Film-Type Patterned Retarter (or FPR). LG claims that the new technology eliminates flicker and crosstalk, supports Full-HD, enables cheap polarized glasses and is also cheap compared to earlier polarized 3D panels because they are using a film substrate instead of glass.

84-inch FPR panel

LG says that from now on they will focus on FPR 3D products as they believe the offer the best experience out of all 3D technologies.

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Sharp 的 3D 平板電腦用面板不用3D眼鏡，RGBY 3D 電視要

http://chinese.engadget.com/2010/04/12/sharps-3d-tablet-panel-doesnt-require-glasses-rgby-3d-tvs-lau/

3D裸式平板觸控電腦--->殺手級產品 ?!

Tommy Chung

Taiwan flora show features high-tech displays

AP – In this photo taken on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010, visitors to the Taipei International Flora Exposition …

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Paper-thin speakers blare pop music. Three-D films appear on elongated screens with no need for special viewing glasses. Viewers' pulses turn cocoons into butterflies in an interactive display.

Welcome to the Pavilion of Dreams, a high-tech enclave within the Taipei International Flora Exposition, where Taiwanese artists and engineers are using technology-generated flowers and plants to strut the island's cutting edge know-how to onlookers from around the world.

The exposition, which runs from November through April, has so far drawn more than 1.9 million visitors to an expansive site in northern Taipei.

Already recognized as a supplier of smartphone and computer components to global technology companies, Taiwan wants to use the pavilion to highlight its capacity for product innovation in the increasingly competitive high-tech world, said Hsueh Wen-chen, head of the government-funded creativity center that designed the popular pavilion.

"Taiwan is not so well-known for creating technologies because we use them mainly in making parts and components for consumer products," she said. "Here we let our imaginations run wild in a way that can give us ideas about how to meet consumer needs when we design our products."

Visitors to the pavilion are greeted by a 3.5-ton artificial flower hanging from the ceiling. It opens and folds its petals to the rhythm of pop music blared from scores of palm-sized speakers, cut into leaf shapes to merge with their surroundings. The speakers are made from a thin, flexible metal coated with a vibrating membrane with strategically placed sensors.

In an adjacent exhibition room, a row of 65-inch flat screens runs 3D animated films of flowers and plants that visitors can view without special glasses because the screens have been engineered to display something known as lenticular imaging.

Just around the corner, a wall of 10-foot- (3-meter-) tall liquid crystal glass panels — looking like a giant transparent bowl — shows a lifelike projection of flowers in the wild.

Unlike conventional flat designs, the 18 panels are curved to create a stunning visual effect. Engineers changed the properties of the membrane attached to the glass so light permeates the curved surface evenly — just like it does on the flat screen version.

Perhaps most impressive of all, a nearby amphitheater shows a film about flora and fauna in a deeply forested environment that allows viewers to transform a small plant into a large tree by breathing onto the screen, or turn a cocoon into a butterfly by placing their wrists near the screen and letting their pulses do the work.

The apparently magical effect is accomplished by using ultra-wide bands, a radio technology first developed at a Russian lab to register life signs in human beings without making physical contact.

"Taiwan is now adapting the UWB technology for medical and other uses," said Yuan Nai-chuan, chief program producer at the pavilion. "We thought it would work very nicely here, too."

(Yahoo! News)

Tommy Chung

Diy 3d printer: straight out of science fiction into your basement

Amazingly, this beautiful 3D printer was built by some guy named Jim in New York. Just like normal printers, 3D printers allow you to print stuff but in 3D. No glasses required! Although this seems straight out of science fiction, the technology has been used since 2003 in the manufacturing segment.

diy make 3d printer printing future

This reminds me of the book Makers by Cory Doctorow, where a Maker revolution was started using 3D printers. I don’t know much about how he made it, but it’s pretty cool that he was able to cobble together this good-looking machine, DIY-style.

diy make 3d printer printing future

It took Jim about 2 years to complete this 3D printer, which he actually designed himself as well. It’s been operational since this summer. Check out more photos and a full description here.

[via Make:]

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Tommy Chung

Dialog Semiconductors releases the first 2D-to-3D video conversion IC for mobile phones or tablet PCs, the DA8223. The IC also integrates a display driver that supports parallax-barrier (glasses-free) 3D screens for both OLED and LCD based displays. The DA8223 supports both 3D images and video (up to 60fps), and can control displays from 3.8" to 10" in size.

Tommy Chung

全球最大的消費性電子展（CES）明年1月6日即將在美國拉斯維加斯開幕，法人指出，本屆聚焦重點包括英特爾新平台、平板電腦、USB3.0、智慧電視以及3D顯示技術。

(Chinatimes News)

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Toshiba's new glasses-free 3D display tilts images and viewing angles your way (video)

Autostereoscopic (read: glasses-free) 3D screens sound like all the rage, but the narrow zones from which you can comfortably view their images have made them a dubious proposition. That's not stopping Toshiba Mobile Display, however, which recently came up with a novel idea for a self-adjusting display. By sticking a six-axis accelerometer in this 12.1-inch slate, the company can tilt the tablet's viewing angle as the tablet itself is tilted, letting viewers effectively look around 3D objects on screen, using software algorithms rather than the fancy lens-and-camera assembly that Microsoft's been prototyping. Toshiba figures it'll make a splash with e-tailers -- because who doesn't want to play with a prospective purchase in 3D space? -- but is mostly talking up the tech as a way to extend the limited 3D viewing angles of these sorts of displays. But enough jabber: see it for yourself after the break.

DigInfo TV

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惟妙惟肖的三維紙質肖像運用了數位化三維掃描技術

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-11/Vivid_3D_paper_portraits_227808.shtml

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Minox PX3D concept camera produces 3D images viewable sans glasses

The doors of Photokina open in a matter of hours, and we'll most definitely be venturing over to Minox's booth in order to have a look at the PX3D. According to the barebones teaser release, this here concept camera will be able to capture 3D images that are viewable sans glasses. It should be noted that the world's first consumer-oriented 3D cameras haven't exactly seen the fondest of reviews, but tossing the glasses requirement may just flip things on its head. It's still unclear what kind of display / digital photo frame will be required to view the effect (we're guessing a parallax barrier panel will be thrown up for display), but we'll be barging in soon in order to get the full skinny.

Slashgear

PhotographyBLOG, Press Anzeiger

(engadget)

Tommy Chung

Tegra 2自豪的3D效能在Android上並未如預期技壓群雄？

http://chinese.engadget.com/2010/12/12/tegra2-gpu-may-not-tune-well/

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New gadget promises 3D without the headaches

A perceptual trick could improve 3D vision (Image: Sean Gallup/Getty)

In 1907 a Polish optical scientist named Moritz von Rohr unveiled a strange device named the Synopter, which he claimed could make two-dimensional images appear 3D. By looking through the arrangement of lenses and mirrors, visitors to art galleries would be drawn into the paintings, as if the framed canvas had become a window to a world beyond. But the Synopter – heavy and prohibitively expensive – was a commercial failure, and the device vanished almost without trace.

A century later, Rob Black is hoping to rekindle interest in von Rohr's creation. A psychologist specialising in visual perception at the University of Liverpool, UK, Black has designed and built an improved version he calls "The I". Unlike some 3D glasses, the device uses no electronics, and works on normal 2D images or video.

Playing tricks on your eyes

The device works in the opposite way to the 3D systems employed in cinemas. There, images on the screen are filtered so that each eye sees a slightly different perspective – known as binocular disparity – fooling the brain into perceiving depth. "The I" ensures that both eyes see an image or computer screen from exactly the same perspective. With none of the depth cues associated with binocular disparity, the brain assumes it must be viewing a distant 3D object instead of looking at a 2D image. As a result, the image is perceived as if it were a window the viewer is looking through, and details in the image are interpreted as objects scattered across a landscape.

The perceptual trick, called synoptic vision, is apparent on any nearby two-dimensional image, but is especially marked where other depth cues exist. For instance, the brain will naturally assume an animal in the 2D image is in the foreground if it is large, and far away if it is small.

No more headaches

Black says that the device also avoids the headaches associated with other 3D technologies. In movie theatres, the eyes need to focus on the screen itself to see objects in focus, but the 3D effects can force the viewer to try to focus several metres in front of or behind the screen instead. "Even with if you use the world's best 3D kit, it can still present conflicting perceptual information," Black told New Scientist.

Because his device uses no binocular disparity the viewer isn't forced to attempt such impossible feats of focusing – instead, they can focus naturally on any object in the image, using other cues such as size to 'decide' what depth the object occupies. "By turning off that conflicting information, you can enjoy the scene in the way the artist depicted."

Currently the device is still a prototype, but Black hopes that his synoptic viewer will one day be incorporated into existing 3D systems. "I think 3D is impressive at the moment, but with this we can get significantly closer to reality simulation."

(newscientist)

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RIM has acquired The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) studio, to help them with their QNX OS user interface. There are some rumors that RIM are also interesting in 3D displays and TAT has some experience in such designs. For example, check out these new 2D-to-3D maps with the TAT Cascades:

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ZScape 3D 全息照片將地圖帶到全新的境界

http://chinese.engadget.com/2010/12/08/zscape-3d-holographic-prints-take-maps-to-the-next-dimension-sa/

Tommy Chung

兩台Kinect加持更完整的3D全像攝影

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_MAIN_ID=319&f_SUB_ID=2940&f_ART_ID=286202

Tommy Chung

Switzerland's EPFL labs have developed a new camera that can capture 360-degrees images. This has all sorts of useful applications, one of them being true 3D TV.

The camera is based around a complex array of lens that can help determine the distance to any object in the image. Here's a short video explaining the new device:

via Dvice

(3d-display)

3D Heads-Up-Display technology for sale

Researchers aim to 'print' human skin

Cornell University scientists use 3D printer to engineer human ear made of silicone

三星、LG電子南韓兩巨頭 2011年將出貨1500萬台3D TV

LG Electronics plans to sell 5 million 3D TVs in 2011

3net 24/7 3D channel launches this weekend, but only on DirecTV

LG confirms Optimus 3D for MWC 2011: glasses-free screen and 3D camera

Japan's NICT created a 200" glasses-free 3D display

Zoran will integrate Sensio's 3D decoding technology in their new 3D SoC solutions

Man discovers glasses-free 3D tech in the blink of an eye

Polariod shows a Movidius-powered mobile glasses-free 3D reference board

Steam TV Elocity 3T glasses-free TV eyes-on

Mitsubishi announces a 92" DLP 3D TV

DisplaySearch: 3.2 million 3D TVs were sold in 2010, this will grow to 91 million by 2014

Nvidia launches an online community for 3D-Vision users

Nvidia has launched a new online community for 3D-Vision users. The idea is to enable users to share 3D content - photos and videos on 3D-enabled PCs or notebooks.

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Toshiba's Glasses-Less 3DTVs Will Hit the US in 40 and 50-Inch Sizes (Updated)

The 1080p 3D Bloggie Leads Sony's 3D Camera Onslaught

Vizio to release new polarized 3D TVs in 2011 - from 32" to 71"

Toshiba shows a new glasses-free 3D laptop concept

Disney to release at least 15 3D Blu-ray titles in 2011

Disney plans to release "at least" 15 3D Blu-ray titles in 2011. This will include Tron: Legacy and Tangled, and the 3D titles will be released together with the 2D versions.

via Engadget

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Samsung showcase lightest 3d glasses in the world at CES-2011

New 3D device: Vizio VBR333

Samsung to show the world's-thinnest 3D blu-ray player at CES

LG looks set to unveil mobile 3DTV at CES

LG Preparing Mammoth 72-inch 3D LCD for CES

Toshiba's Regza GL1 glasses-free 3D TV is on sale in Japan, 40" models coming soon

Stereoscopic copy-paste finally brings that clone tool into the third dimension (video)

By 2015, Cellphones Will Do 3D Holographic Video Calls (Says IBM Survey)

Kinect and haptics combine at the University of Washington to let you feel the future (video)

Vizio's New 65-inch 3DTV Promises Flicker-Free Picture on a Huger Screen

How to Make Your Own 3D Glasses (You'll Want These Next Week, Trust Us)

UK 3D TV sales surging

LG display unveils a 84" FPR polarized-3D panel, to be LG's technology-of-choice

Diy 3d printer: straight out of science fiction into your basement

Toshiba's new glasses-free 3D display tilts images and viewing angles your way (video)

Minox PX3D concept camera produces 3D images viewable sans glasses

New gadget promises 3D without the headaches

Playing tricks on your eyes

No more headaches

EPFL developed a 360-degrees 3D camera

Researchers aim to 'print' human skin

Cornell University scientists use 3D printer to engineer human ear made of silicone

三星、LG電子 南韓兩巨頭 2011年將出貨1500萬台3D TV

3net 24/7 3D channel launches this weekend, but only on DirecTV

LG confirms Optimus 3D for MWC 2011: glasses-free screen and 3D camera

Japan's NICT created a 200" glasses-free 3D display

Zoran will integrate Sensio's 3D decoding technology in their new 3D SoC solutions

Man discovers glasses-free 3D tech in the blink of an eye

Polariod shows a Movidius-powered mobile glasses-free 3D reference board

Steam TV Elocity 3T glasses-free TV eyes-on

Mitsubishi announces a 92" DLP 3D TV

DisplaySearch: 3.2 million 3D TVs were sold in 2010, this will grow to 91 million by 2014

Nvidia launches an online community for 3D-Vision users Nvidia has launched a new online community for 3D-Vision users. The idea is to enable users to share 3D content - photos and videos on 3D-enabled PCs or notebooks. (3d-display-info)

Disney to release at least 15 3D Blu-ray titles in 2011 Disney plans to release "at least" 15 3D Blu-ray titles in 2011. This will include Tron: Legacy and Tangled, and the 3D titles will be released together with the 2D versions. via Engadget (3d-display-info)

Samsung showcase lightest 3d glasses in the world at CES-2011

LG looks set to unveil mobile 3DTV at CES

Toshiba's Regza GL1 glasses-free 3D TV is on sale in Japan, 40" models coming soon

Stereoscopic copy-paste finally brings that clone tool into the third dimension (video)

Kinect and haptics combine at the University of Washington to let you feel the future (video)

Diy 3d printer: straight out of science fiction into your basement

Toshiba's new glasses-free 3D display tilts images and viewing angles your way (video)

Minox PX3D concept camera produces 3D images viewable sans glasses

New gadget promises 3D without the headaches

Playing tricks on your eyes

No more headaches

EPFL developed a 360-degrees 3D camera

三星、LG電子南韓兩巨頭 2011年將出貨1500萬台3D TV

Nvidia launches an online community for 3D-Vision users

Nvidia has launched a new online community for 3D-Vision users. The idea is to enable users to share 3D content - photos and videos on 3D-enabled PCs or notebooks.

(3d-display-info)

Disney to release at least 15 3D Blu-ray titles in 2011

Disney plans to release "at least" 15 3D Blu-ray titles in 2011. This will include Tron: Legacy and Tangled, and the 3D titles will be released together with the 2D versions.

via Engadget

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