3DTV without glasses in view

informitv’s William Cooper on the future of 3D television without glasses…

The main problem with 3DTV is the need to wear dark glasses, which is not really practical for regular television viewing.

There are approaches which do not require glasses, using so-called autostereoscopic displays.

Philips was a proponent of this approach but after a decade of research abandoned product development.

Dimenco, a start-up company founded by four former Philips employees has licensed the technology and is now showing its 56″ lenticular screen on the Philips stand at the IFA trade show as the 3D of the future.

For many year Philips has been showing the technology behind this prototype, which is based on small lenses on the screen which refract the left and right images for each eye.

Although Philips dropped development to concentrate on the more immediate opportunity of 3DTV with glasses, it could come to market within 3-5 years, and will be available for professional and advertising applications later this year…

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