Magnetic3D glasses-free 3D eyes-on
By Richard Lawler 
posted January 11th 2010 9:26AM
posted January 11th 2010 9:26AM
posted January 11th 2010 9:26AM
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glasses-free? yes please...
@Nubee I don't know why people are obsessed with glasses-free TV. Without head-tracking, or true 3D (which is currently way too hard) you have to sit perfectly still - if you move your head more than an inch or two you will lose the illusion.
I think circularly polarised glasses are the way to go. Nobody really has a problem wearing sunglasses and they are exactly the same but with a different filter.
Head-tracking glasses-free 3D could work, but it would be *really* hard to do with more than one viewer, and pretty hard for just one.
@Timmmmmm
Give technology some time to develop and it will become much better. You are not impressed now, but you will be impressed a few years later, that's how technology progresses.
Personally, I would love to see holograms everywhere (Star Wars & Back to the Future style), but at least we can start with glasses-free TVs.
@nicholiservia
so true.
We need video! Or stereoscopic video! To see! What this is about!!!
@peepeeland Explanation!! Points! Are! Supposed! To! End! a! Sentence!
@Nitesh There are no rules!!! ...in poetry.
@peepeeland I was thinking the same thing! I have nVidia 3D Vision and could view a S3D video to actually see this working. At the very least, an anaglyph video....
@Nitesh and they are actually called exclamation points!
Any one know the amount of deviation one of these things has from the "9 viewing points"?
@credo Very little. At the 9 positions, each of your eyes needs to be seeing a different image. That means you can't move your head more than the distance between your eyes.
@chaos215bar2
Well, in that case, no. That would be horribly annoying and would cause fatigue over 90+ minute movies.
UN HAMBURGUESA EN 3D
This is like photographing e-ink. You can't really tell how nice it is till you see it in person.
@(Unverified)
I just wonder how they will advertise these new 3D sets on our current 2D TVs. Cheesy 'images coming out of the screen' like have been shown on the early Nvidia 3D promotions? Or, will they try to show a split screen stereoscopic image and ask viewers to cross their eyes? Actually, that second one sounds pretty fun...
@egghead
They will advertise it by sending you to Best Buy.
@nicholiservia
you can say that again I dunno why I watched that abomination of a movie worlds greatest dad
It will be interesting how they will advertise this.
ALL NEW 3D T.V with not 7, not 8, but 9 view angles.
Did anyone hear of a ETA for +50.
Oh boy. A whole nine viewing angles.
Let me know where there are a 120+ viewing angles.
@nicholiservia
Weapons of Self Destruction was funny.
@Gi I thought it was his best movie since Good Will Hunting, primarily because he wasn't trying to be funny.
Quick question... to watch this, do you have to cross your eyes? Cuz if you do, that really sucks especially since I can't cross my eyes!
C'mon magnetic, 9 views better than 8.... is like comparing apples and oranges.... you can get 25 views out of your monitor too, why aren't you doing it? Because it would look worse than a 2000 webcam in darkness with high speed motion resolution-wise.
Tridelity actually got this right, they are advertising 5 views, 8, 9 views depending on the target application, distances, size of the display and usage you want to do.
These monitors are basically all the same, Standard screen with slanted lenticular filter in front. What will differentiate them is PRICING, then software and staff support. Alioscopy could learn a little from Magnetic PR on the web, but magnetic could learn even more from alioscopy's end-user support and human touch to the business and it's community.
@robot: you don't need to cross your eyes, but you need to be positionned properly in front of the display else it looks garbled, that's why they are creating more views, to accomodate for this viewing cone, drawback is resolution loss per added view.
Any tv that does not require glasses is going to have an ugly picture. Any tv requiring glasses is going to have an ugly viewer.
@nicholiservia
In Robin Williams' defense most people don't know that he is actually a stand up comedian turned actor. His stand up stuff was/is a lot better then some his best movies (and I admit he starred in some serious drek).
He's a love or hate person depending on your view/personal preference. I don't like all of his "performances", still I'd call him an exceptional improvisational artist.
(ever seen Robin Williams - Live At The Met or his appearance in Inside Actors Studio)