Alioscopy's 40-inch 3DHD autostereoscopic LCD headed for CES: no glasses required

Mention 3D, and you'll get an enthusiastic shrug from most. Mention three little words in conjunction, and everything changes. In case you haven't guessed that magic trio, it's "no glasses required." We've seen the technology bandied about, but we're sensing that companies are about to get serious with it at CES 2009. Case in point: Alioscopy and TCL have tag-teamed in order to showcase the former's 3DHD autostereoscopic 3D LCD display (40-inch) and content creation technology in just under a month. There are no real details on the underlying juju, but you can bet we're stoked to see what it delivers in Vegas. Maybe those plans for a 3D Olympics in 2012 aren't all that loony after all?

[MeSomeone @ Dec 18th 2008 5:19PM]

No 3D glasses required!

[Joe @ Dec 18th 2008 5:20PM]

No 3D glasses required!

[Tonicboy @ Dec 18th 2008 6:08PM]

Yeah they had one of these sets on display at Siam Paragon in Bangkok last year. It works pretty well but I have a few gripes with the technology as it stands. Firstly, talk about lack of viewing angle; you have to stand in one very small sweet spot in order to get a good effect. Secondly, you don't get a 3D image as much as an illusion of 3D from one angle. I won't consider it true 3D until is more like a hologram and you can move your head around see the objects from different angles. Yeah yeah, I know, that's blue sky stuff, but the current technology just isn't that satisfying.

[Justin @ Dec 18th 2008 7:37PM]

They had 1 of these at CES like 2 years ago ant the NVIDIA booth. But it certainly wasn't HD and the viewing angle sucked...

[Shinigami @ Dec 18th 2008 5:25PM]

I'll believe it only when I see price tag lower than $1000. I'm sick of $10,000 TVs.

[Thats What He Said @ Dec 18th 2008 5:26PM]

cant 3D also mean the the image expands back rather than expand forward?

[PyRo1509 @ Dec 18th 2008 5:28PM]

"wow look! its like its 300 miles away!!!"

[Saad Rabia @ Dec 18th 2008 5:29PM]

Note to self: Buy an autostereoscopic LCD to watch videos of the Alioscopy's 40-inch 3DHD autostereoscopic LCD in action.

[Boarderwoot @ Dec 18th 2008 5:33PM]

The people in Batman Forever got 3D without glasses and look what happened to them.

[tpadekar @ Dec 18th 2008 6:13PM]

+1 for referring to the second worst Batman movie ever made!

[The E @ Dec 19th 2008 1:04AM]

Don't understand the hate for Batman Forever, it's actually my 2nd fav behind Dark Knight. Kilmer made a good Batman, and looked the part more than others (before Bale). Great action sets, coolest gadgets and car, awesome costumes, did a great job introducing Robin, O'Donnell was great as Robin, and Carey was perfect as the Riddler. The plot was bad, as was Two-Face, but overall the movie was better than the first and second. First one's action scenes were bad, and the second had a lame Penguin. I did like Joker and Catwoman though, they were great. Of course mad props to Dark Knight, now the best of the series.

[PATMAN-UK @ Dec 19th 2008 9:00AM]

Ptts. Christian Bale who? Adam West is king

[Tejas Padekar @ Dec 20th 2008 5:11PM]

I watched the movies again a few months back, and I found them to be decisively cheesy! Val Kilmer was pretty good... but the rest of it sucked!

[MRLN @ Dec 18th 2008 5:42PM]

We started out with Greek drama. Then it went to flat TV's. Now it's coming back to what they originally had 2500 years ago. Except more electronic, I guess....

[radactive @ Dec 18th 2008 5:49PM]

"no glasses required.":
http://holografika.com/index.php?option=com_hg&secId=9&filmId=173

[Lowest Ranked @ Dec 18th 2008 6:36PM]

I like your video better but here's the one I've been referring people to for the past year or two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3tEdVaGkFA&feature=related

[Lowest Ranked @ Dec 18th 2008 6:42PM]

Sorry, I meant this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOKS8_QFooM&feature=related

[neotokyo7 @ Dec 18th 2008 5:54PM]

@radactive

That is pretty awesome. Especially the guy trying to solve the 3d Rubix cube.

Now thats what I call interactive TV.

[YoMamma @ Dec 18th 2008 6:01PM]

Didn't Sharp do something like this?

The best tech would be based on lintography (spelling?) ...like those so called "hologram" images you find on DVD cases, etc. That along with the ultra small pixel sizes DLP can do. It was only a matter of time before this happened.

Next step, HD, 3D, then no screen at all.

[Ian @ Dec 18th 2008 6:30PM]

damn it i still haven't even gotten HD hooked up and now we are moving on to 3D..

[a ham sandwich @ Dec 18th 2008 6:58PM]

glasses-free 3d is the only way i see mass adoption. and also what shinigami said: a palatable price.

[FILA @ Dec 18th 2008 7:18PM]

now see this is the future, they need to hold off on 3D right now till they work these out and show off to everyone. You got these theaters and tv's right now that still require the 50's style glasses your gonna give everyone a bad feel for 3D, work these out and everyone will want one. good thing bout it you dont need to keep the fucking glasses handy for you and everyone else. im all for these

[Anthony @ Dec 18th 2008 8:25PM]

what is 3D?

watch this for a laugh i swear :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T0UQfKTcQw

[Trey @ Dec 18th 2008 8:27PM]

I think I saw one from Philips in CES 2007, too. And it was pretty freaking great...

[pirate23 @ Dec 18th 2008 8:41PM]

dear engineers:
make a 3D display for someone with one eye
it'd be great.

thanks.

[Dekstar @ Dec 19th 2008 8:15PM]

They'll be done with that as soon as they've made a surround sound system for those who are deaf in one ear.

[Str1ker @ Dec 18th 2008 11:16PM]

Viewing angle: 1 degree

[Trevor @ Dec 19th 2008 1:48AM]

3d porn FTW.

[Daimyo Nintendo @ Dec 19th 2008 9:46AM]

NO GLASSES, how does that work!?!?! That was my biggest pet peeve with 3D TV I reused to even read about it cuz I hate wearing glasses to watch TV. If you go see one of those 3D or 4D movies at a theme park that is different it is a 10-15 minute ride and you pitch the glasses at the end. The last thing I want to say is hey, let watch Star Wars and oh where did I put my glasses or dont forget to put your glasses on or well..it sucks.

[chris @ Dec 19th 2008 7:31PM]

no glasses!!! i was hoping for the baller 3d glasses to take off. GUCCI 3D GLASSES FTMFW!!!!

[Aaronsoup @ Dec 21st 2008 7:36PM]

I work at the premier cinema in Central London and we have a prototype 3d tv set up for advertising now... It's very good, but I think the tech still needs some work, some of the presentations work better than others... We have an iphone advert that is truly awful, and then an advert for some sort of extreme white water rafting vacation that is absolutely amazing.... My main gripe with it is the narrow viewing angle, and it's very narrow.. perhaps 90degrees for the 3d to actually work... and it only seems to be very effective from a distance of 1-3 meters...

It's still amazing to see something coming out of the tv, and if they can improve the viewing angle/distance problems i'll be very impressed, this is the tech i could really see going somewhere

[Aaron S @ Dec 21st 2008 7:41PM]

I forgot to mention perhaps the most impressive thing... The guy from the company setting it up was showing me a video of a technical demo they're working on developing... The basic gist was there was a windows desktop in the background, able to be used normally, whilst a standard '2d' movie' was being 'projected' (it wasnt, but this was the illusion) in front of it, at what seemed like half a meter in front... it was mind boggling to see....... As soon as i saw it I started to think of all the applications, especially video games, whereby you could have the user interface and options 'projected' in front of the game, meaning there was never a need to pause or get away from the action for a second... it's fucking awesome