The 3D hype of avatar started news and interest in 3D Televisions and this article attempts to answer all the questions you might be asking
1. “Most people are familiar with the old anaglyph method, where a pair of glasses with lenses tinted red and cyan (or other colors) is used to combine two false-color images. The result seen by the viewer is discolored and usually lower-resolution than the new method. The principal improvements afforded by new 3D TV technologies are full color and high resolution”
2. “Between 5 percent and 10 percent of Americans suffer from stereo blindness, according to the College of Optometrists in Vision Development”
http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/2010/04/test-driving-3d-tv.html
A price comes at having a 3D television and without the glasses you can be quite puzzled at how you are going to watch the television in the first place.
1. “Golf seems a natural.”You have the field and it moves slowly," he says. Football and basketball are a little harder to adjust to (and hockey is toughest, with the glass and fans in the foreground and the players flat on the ice with the puck).”
2. “What's surprising is the pace of acceptance of 3D on TV with industry analysts predicting 1 million sets sold this year, 14 million next year and 40 million by 2014.”
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/3DTV-autostereoscopic-CES,review-1490.html
You can have 3D television without the glasses but you can either pay 20,000 dollars or wait until they developed this new 3D technology a little further
1. “In general, most of the companies looking to enter the non-glasses 3D market are first approaching it from the retail and commercial perspective: screens that show advertising in public spaces, rather than in products designed for the home market”
2. “A prototype at Samsung’s booth. The 50-inch display has a very wide viewing angle, and I could see 3D cartoons no matter where I stood in front of it (again, no live action footage). The images on screen looked very similar to those on the TCL set. Personally, I don’t see a downside to a 3D world where bullets don’t look like they're two inches from your nose—those kinds of special effects are cheesy, anyway”
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0605546.htm
It’s a rush for companies to show off their broadcasting in sync with the brand name 3D TV’s out there so they can get their products out for people who want to be the first adopters
1. “DIRECTV, in partnership with Panasonic, is the first and only service provider to announce it will provide dedicated 3D channels to its customers, beginning in June 2010”
2. “Last month, Panasonic launched its VIERA 3D televisions in stores and quickly sold out of initial supplies. The VIERA 3D plasma display has native 1080p, 600 Hz capability and comes with liquid crystal glass shutter lens viewing glasses”
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/08/71627
3D without the glasses can be achieved by using different tricks of projecting the image at different angles but sometimes not that great and 2D images are hard to achieve
1. “But where old-fashioned 3-D movies rely on the special glasses to block images meant for the other eye, Philips' WOWvx technology places tiny lenses over each of the millions of red, green and blue sub pixels that make up an LCD or plasma screen. The lenses cause each sub pixel to project light at one of nine angles fanning out in front of the display.”
2. “One nearly ready-made source of content is modern video games, which actually generate three-dimensional objects internally, then flatten the images into 2-D representations for standard monitors. Philips has developed hardware and software that can extract the original depth information from the game engine and use it to create 3-D images on a WOWvx display.”
Works Cited
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Catlin, Roger. "Prime Time Specialty Mini Grid WIDGET." Courant.com Blogs. 9 Apr. 2010. Web. 9 Apr. 2010.
Katzmaier, David. "3D TV FAQ Crave - CNET." Technology News - CNET News. 16 Mar. 2010. Web. 9 Apr. 2010.
Lum, Sarah. "DIRECTV, Panasonic and Harmonic to Demonstrate 3D TV at NAB 2010." Business, Financial, Personal Finance News - CNNMoney.com. 8 Apr. 2010. Web. 9 Apr. 2010.
Rosmarin, Rachel. "Give Me 3D TV, Without The Glasses : 3D Monitors, No Glasses Required." Tom's Guide: Your High-Tech Source of Information. 9 Jan. 2010. Web. 9 Apr. 2010.
Not quite the setup I was looking for, but all the information is there.
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