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  • You Don’t Need Geeky Glasses to Watch 3D Anymore

    Posted on June 19th, 2009 Uzair 5 comments

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    People have to wear those ugly, geeky and disgusting Glasses to enjoy watching 3D videos. I have always hated those glasses and I am sure you have too. But worry no more, European researchers are developing a technology that enables 3DTV which does not require wearing glasses.

    Soon you will be able to enjoy full 3D effects in Videos just using your naked eye. The first applications of the new technology are likely to be the fields of industry and science but there is a lot of potential in it and it will surely revolutionise the way we watch movies or play video games. With this new technology, there is no need no need for the special glasses in cinemas or having to adjust your head into specific positions to get the 3D effect, as with a holographic image. Two EU-funded projects, firstly HOLOVISION and then its successor OSIRIS have been able to perform this breakthrough. Ákos Demeter of Holografika, a partner in both projects, explains that in the first one the primary aim was to develop technologies capable of producing a very high-resolution 3D image. He said, “We basically organised projection engines in a special way and used holographic imaging film for the display screen. The combination of these, with the projection engines being driven by a cluster of nine high-end PCs, and new sophisticated software, allowed us to achieve our aims.”

    A 100Mpixel Prototype, running at 25 frames a second in six colours, was produced and its resolution was increased three fold to virtually 300Mpixel by using greyscales instead of colours. This prototype is yet to be produced commercially but it was good enough for the HOLOVISION and OSIRIS projects to get them Best Exhibit Award silver prize at the ICT 2008 exhibition in Lyon.

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    5 responses to “You Don’t Need Geeky Glasses to Watch 3D Anymore” RSS icon

    • Very interesting technology! Are these similar to other autostereoscopic displays that use parallax or lenticular lenses?

    • Based upon the reddit comments about this article, I would suggest you describe the technology a little better. Your current description of how you achieved this “no-glasses” display is vague.

    • @Auto Stereoscopic: I appreciate your comment but what you see here is all the information that was available online.

    • @Auto Stereoscopic: Technology is patented. The good thing with this solution is that nobody cares the technology when watching it. It is more like the experience is interesting. And there is no need to talk about sweet spots and “keep your head still please” type of things with this, so people do not ask “Why?”. They just watch the 3D image and happy with it…

    • VERY INTERESTING..


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