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Fraunhofer’s cheap 3D monitor
Fraunhofer, inventor of the mp3, has developed a 3D LCD monitor that doesn’t require green-and-red paper glasses.
It’s also cheaper and more versatile than previous designs since it doesn’t require an expensive lens and you don’t have to sit rigidly in front of it to see a 3D effect.
The 3D trickery starts with a glass panel, placed on top of any regular TFT display, which has ingrained black lines so that each eye sees a completely different set of pixels. A webcam then tracks your eye positions and software renders two images – one for each eye. If you move about, the webcam will track you and the images will adjust accordingly.
Fraunhofer only licenses out its technology, so we won’t see this exact concept model on sale. Its 20.1in panel had a 1,600x1,200 native resolution but needed to be fed a 3,200x1,200 resolution image.
My first impressions are that it is just as effective as Zalman’s 22in 3D monitor which costs over £400. We’ve had the Zalman monitor in our labs for several months now, but its drivers aren’t yet finalised.
Posted by Emil Larsen on March 7, 2008 | Permalink
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