Tiny Hungarian company discovers the secret to 3D TV without glasses?

[Timstuff]

3D TV sounds cool, but lets face it-- no-one wants to look like a dork and put on glasses every time they watch TV, and the prohibitive cost of the glasses makes the idea of 3D movie parties little more than a fantasy if you aren't loaded. Some attempts have been made to create 3DTVs without glasses, but the results have been very disappointing, with the depth of field being even worse than what you'd find on a regular glasses-required TV, let alone as good as what you can see in a theater. For now, 3DTV does not strike most consumers as being a viable format.

Well, there's a tiny little Hungarian company that is looking to change that. They've created a 3D television system that utilizes hardware-based conversion software to effectively take a 3D signal, and convert it into a signal that their autostereoscopic monitor can display without losing the depth of field, no glasses or special lighting conditions required. Like other glasses-free TVs, viewers must sit within "sweet spots" to properly see the picture, but the picture quality is much higher than anything else that's out there this side of a movie theater.

They were at CES in January pimping their wares to prospective business partners. As I mentioned above, they're a very small company and lack the structure to mass produce or market a product, but it's quite possible you'll see this tech picked up by one of the big manufacturers like Sony or Toshiba in the near future. This hardly means that 3D is the wave of the future, but if this tech catches on, it's possible that 3D at home will at least have a future.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/216196/glassesfree_3d_sooner_than_you_think.html

 

[Kane52630]

This is old news.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

It's called a window

 

[Aesop Rocks]

is this real life?

 

[Hotwire]

Hungary, not a country you would expect this from.