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3D TV without glasses explained

Ever wish you could lose the specs and watch a 3D TV without those annoying glasses?

Analysts at Futuresource Consulting predict that by 2011 the UK will have more 3D TVs than the current front-runners, France and Germany, with one in three homes 3D Ready by 2014 – and a staggering 50 per cent by 2015.

That’s an awful lot of 3D glasses – and at £100 a pop, it’s a serious complaint about the 3D home experience. The solution, of course, is a 3D TV without glasses.

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3D TV Without Glasses

With the development of 3D TV without glasses, the landscape for this market is improving. Images can be brought into the third dimension using a variety of methods. These methods are developed according to the understanding that the individual players have. For example they might be able to change the color or the perspective on the product.

The issue of parallax images is coming to the forefront with all the changes that are put in place the use of binocular disparity will continue to be an important consideration on all the fronts. The eye can then see things in a different way. These are the changes that will change the traditional way of dealing with images. In fact there are instances where the older films are being brought into the 3D TV age due to the innovations.

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Glasses-Free 3-D TV Sales Miss Expectations in Initial Month, Toshiba Says

Toshiba Corp., the first maker of 3-D televisions that don’t require viewers to wear special glasses, sold fewer than half the sets it targeted in the initial month of sales.

Toshiba, which began offering the TVs late in December, sold 500 of the 20-inch model at about 240,000 yen ($2,940) each, and even fewer of the cheaper 12-inch set, Masaaki Osumi, president of Toshiba’s Visual Products Company, said in an interview yesterday. The Tokyo-based company, second in Japan in TV sales, had planned to sell 1,000 units of each model a month. Read more…

Glasses-Free 3D Gets Ready For Prime Time

Among the diverse new approaches for developing the burgeoning 3D TV market was an attempt by several manufacturers at the recent International CES to test the U.S. waters for glasses-free 3D TV.

Several manufacturers showed prototype glasses-free displays, with varying degrees of success in presenting the illusion of 3D.

On the surface, the concept appears to be the panacea for most of what ails the nascent 3D TV movement.

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Glasses-Free 3-D TV Sales Miss Expectations in Initial Month, Toshiba Says

Toshiba Corp., the first maker of 3-D televisions that don’t require viewers to wear special glasses, sold fewer than half the sets it targeted in the initial month of sales.

Toshiba, which began offering the TVs late in December, sold 500 of the 20-inch model at about 240,000 yen ($2,940) each, and even fewer of the cheaper 12-inch set, Masaaki Osumi, president of Toshiba’s Visual Products Company, said in an interview yesterday. The Tokyo-based company, second in Japan in TV sales, had planned to sell 1,000 units of each model a month.

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In Depth: 3D without glasses: the gadgets coming in 2011

2011 is the year when 3D gets personal. Whether or not the act of putting on glasses is putting-off consumers (European and US consumers trail the world in 3D excitement according to analysts at Nielsen), the recent CES in Las Vegas saw a raft of unexpected announcements, demos and prototypes of glasses-free 3D gadgets.

With a few stunning exceptions – Toshiba’s 56-inch and 65-inch LCD TVs, to be precise – almost all were portable smallscreen devices such as smartphones, photo frames, camcorders and laptops (though strangely no tablets).

At the time of writing – with the Nintendo 3DS yet to go on sale – there is only one glasses-free gadget on sale; Fujifilm’s FinePix REAL 3D W3 camera.

Lucy Edwards, marketing manager for Digital Cameras at Fujinon, believes that glasses-free 3D ‘lenticular’ (ie the lens is across the screen rather than in glasses) technology is currently best for gamers and photographers.

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Glasses-Free 3D TV not likely to hit homes for the next 5-10 Years

Yes 3D TV is becoming more and more accessible as the days go on, but the discomfort, headache, eyestrain, and nausea generated by using the 3D glasses may be its downfall.

Watching a 3D movie or television set isn’t pleasant due to the glasses required to see the stereoscopic image. I know I’m not the only one who finds the experience very uncomfortable.

There has been much debate regarding the technology required to view 3D TV without those ridiculous glasses, and if you believe Samsung Electronics, you are going to be waiting at lease five to ten long years because technical hurdles still exist before such TVs can be mass-produced at an affordable price.

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