Like 3-D but hate wearing the glasses?
Apple could have good news for you.
The company is reportedly working on 3-D technology that would not require special glasses to experience it.
According to The Daily Telegraph, Apple was recently granted a patent for a type of screen that creates not only 3D images without the need for glasses, but also holographic images.
The company also intends to develop the technology so that it will be able to register the movements and positions of viewers so that the 3D image will remain sharp.
The patent reads: “An exceptional aspect of the invention is that it can produce viewing experiences that are virtually indistinguishable from viewing a true hologram.
“Such a ‘pseudo-holographic’ image is a direct result of the ability to track and respond to observer movements.”
Apple has not revealed when this technology will become available, but the firm did state that it hopes to apply it to computers as well as television and movie screens.
Track and respond to observer movements? So, your screen will be watching us watching it?
Yeah… Well…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQDUX6X6-w
Apple is copying Nintendo this time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83GoGHBkdyg
Well the technology as it stands probably won’t work very well for more than a single person to view it at a time. Reports from E3 on the Nintendo 3DS was that you didn’t see the 3D unless you were in the middle of the screen. This kind of kills the concept of doing it on TV but could work really well on a computer monitor which doesn’t require multiple people to view.
3D TV without glasses has already been developed and available for purchase here in Japan.
http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/85962.php
As Razak and others have already said glassless 3D for multiple viewers is going to be a very complex thing to pull off. Unless a complete rethink in screen technologies is done. Everything everyone has designed up to this point is really only good for a single viewer. Put one viewer to the left of the screen and one to the right and it just wont work.