This article about a new 3D laptop by Acer sounds interesting.
It uses glasses so it’s not perfect but they don’t, from the photograph, look like the usual 3D glasses you get with DVDs and when you go to 3D presentations. Of course the picture is clearly doctored so they may not be the true glasses.
Now from the video, in the article, it appears that the 3D picture displayed is the same as the 3D pictures we normally see. So it won’t be easily viewed without the glasses without significant practise. Basically this uses stereoscopy to produce the image. Fooling our brains into seeing a 3D image from two specially coloured and positioned images. This causes unavoidable colour loss in the final output and is not a long term solution.
From the descriptions Acers one innovative step is its ability to convert what is displayed on to the screen into 3D without requiring the software itself to be 3D enabled. I would guess that will make for some interesting viewing as the hardware performs this conversion. Although if it works OK I can already think of a couple of applications where this would be useful such as CAD work.
The lack of colour however makes it more of a gimmick for most people. 3D is not going to be on everyone’s PC for a long time. Specialist applications and games again. Pity that. Bring on holographs or colour 3D.
3D Laptops
This article about a new 3D laptop by Acer sounds interesting.
It uses glasses so it’s not perfect but they don’t, from the photograph, look like the usual 3D glasses you get with DVDs and when you go to 3D presentations. Of course the picture is clearly doctored so they may not be the true glasses.
Now from the video, in the article, it appears that the 3D picture displayed is the same as the 3D pictures we normally see. So it won’t be easily viewed without the glasses without significant practise. Basically this uses stereoscopy to produce the image. Fooling our brains into seeing a 3D image from two specially coloured and positioned images. This causes unavoidable colour loss in the final output and is not a long term solution.
From the descriptions Acers one innovative step is its ability to convert what is displayed on to the screen into 3D without requiring the software itself to be 3D enabled. I would guess that will make for some interesting viewing as the hardware performs this conversion. Although if it works OK I can already think of a couple of applications where this would be useful such as CAD work.
The lack of colour however makes it more of a gimmick for most people. 3D is not going to be on everyone’s PC for a long time. Specialist applications and games again. Pity that. Bring on holographs or colour 3D.