3D HDTV, no glasses required

Seems like 3D glasses are taking a beating this week. Newsight Corporation has developed a technique for displaying HDTV in 3D without the need for wearing special glasses. The technique uses software processing to pass HD video streams through a converter chip that creates eight stereo views on-the-fly. When a filter is applied to project each of the eight views in a slightly different direction on an LCD monitor, the human eye picks up the different scenes and composites them into a coherent three-dimensional view. We hope this means horror movies are about to get a whole lot scarier.

[Gil @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

this is old tech. It was developed by sharp for computer screens. The only thing they did was slap the "HD" prefix on it and let loose the dogs of marketing

[Ben @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

uh...kind of old...I saw a 3d HDTV in France in a supermarket, advertising products.

You had to stand pretty much right in front of the TV to not see two of the 3d images it was displaying...but it did work pretty well otherwise. Cool idea.

[Andy @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

Ya know, it's not even that it's old news, but this is one of those techs that we've been hearing about for five plus years and have seen nothing from. I must've read like 8 stories like this on Slashdot over the years... I wonder when you'll actually SEE them?

[Dan Kaminsky @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

All the lenticular displays look awful. Believe me, I keep wanting them not to.

The polarized displays look really good though.

[hall @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

yeah, old news. better than nothing.

[Samuel Lago @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

What do you mean old news, I haven't got one and come to that I haven't even seen HDTV quality. Old news, no way!

[luke @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

u other guys r stupid, this is a good idea and it is not in my front room or any 1 else i know come to think of it.

i say bring it on, make new things and stop talking crap u guys think...its not old...its not here

[Kramer @ Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM]

It's Elsa Revelator glasses on the picture.
I have one of those, and they are not resolution-dependent!
True, you can look at HDTV or whatever with them, it doesn't matter.
And they are 2001 model.