DDD Group's TriDef Vision+ 3D-upconverting set top box

We're still not really down with 3D display systems that require the use of those goofy glasses; our ideal setup has a transparent half-globe sitting on the coffee table, where different seating positions yield completely different takes on the action. Sadly DDD Group, and not us, is the one with all the engineers, and they continue to push the old blue and red sunglasses format with their new TriDef Vision+ set top box, which promises to convert any video signal to 3D on an appropriate monitor. For now, though, very few of these monitors actually exist; so few, in fact, that DDD had to wait for Arisawa Manufacturing Co.'s 30-inch 3D LCD to be ready before making their announcement. The Vision+ also claims support for "the latest generation of Hollywood 3D movies that are in production," which can only mean that the highly-anticipated (by whom, we don't know) follow-up to The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl is close at hand.

[Via HD Beat]

[consumer_q @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

" push the old blue and red sunglasses format"

They are pushing the polarizd 3-D stuff, not B&R. Polarized is substatially better than B&R, but no holodeck.

[Julie @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

This entry caught my eye because in my mind DDD = TriDelta, my sorority :P ok sorry that was random

[OM @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

Afirmative number 1. DDD do not push the R & B method. Pola is much better than this method because it reproduces full color images rather than the pinky blue crap. Also there are 3D monitors out there that can display depth without glasses that the DDD products can communicate with, they are just very expensive at the moment. Call it goofy if you will but like VR, 3D WILL be the standard in the future. It's time the community stop feeling guilty that this will actually be really cool. I don't work for DDD, I'm just a frustrated stereoscopic fan.

OM

[Rishard Chapoteau @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

I'd like to know how much this device goes for, Looks kind of interstting.