http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/you see, the 3D effect of the 3DS is will not function if you are not in the correct angle upon viewing the screen. apply that on your tv, then everyone in the room is gonna have to sit in a vertical line prior to the tv, which is sadly, not something everyone would like to do. but hey, this is new technology, let them improve it. ]]>Jul 1st 2010 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/The glasses-free technology only works well in small screens at the moment.]]>Jul 1st 2010 1:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 1:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Although Microsoft research on 3D is really interesting, at least what I read.]]>Jul 1st 2010 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Moron.]]>Jul 1st 2010 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
Or the TV will just be $600 more expensive....

The tech for glasses free 3D is not even close for consumer devices. Yes the tech exists to allow multiple viewing positions but these positions are still fixed. There is head tracking tech to adjust the effect as you move around but this is only available for 1 viewer. I hate the glasses especially as I would need to buy a load of them just in case the family come over although most of the time they would be sat gathering dust at $150 per pair.

I am not even very impressed by the 3D effect it is not true 3D as you can't look around scenery etc it just adds some depth of field..... I am not sure I will be impressed until a tie fighter appears from behind me to match the surround sound stage.]]>Jul 1st 2010 4:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
Edit..

By consumer devices I mean large screen TVs as more discrete displays would obviously not need to be viewed by more than on person.]]>Jul 1st 2010 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Exactly. The tech just isn't there to make for real 3D - much less to justify the high costs to buy in. The prices of these glasses is just nuts to me.]]>Jul 1st 2010 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
Your eyes do not see in 3-D — they can only see in 2-D.
It's your brain that takes these two slightly different 2-D images and creates a virtual and stunningly real approximate 3-D perception that can be easily fooled.

Your eyes see in 2-D, your brain sees in 3-D. ]]>Jul 3rd 2010 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/]]>Jul 1st 2010 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/My eyes say yes but my prescription specs say "not likely".]]>Jul 1st 2010 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/OK, the sony site does say "designed to fit over prescription eyewear." but they don't look like a good fit from here.]]>Jul 1st 2010 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
Let me know, I can hook you up!

Lol]]>Jul 1st 2010 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Oh the email also said i woulg get half of the 30 mil ]]>Jul 1st 2010 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/This is just a desperate measure by TV companies to bring back the profits of TVs. HDTVs have almost reached commodity prices with razor thin margins. Not like the early days when HDTV had a 30+% profit margin.
All TV manufacturers can do to bring back the profit margin is either add additional features (Internet connectivity, better GUIs, etc.), a bump up in the resolution standard for HDTV, or things like 3D.]]>Jul 1st 2010 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
For me, I would need a new TV ($2,500) and 5 pairs of 3D glasses for each member of my family ($750) and possibly though not likely a new blu-ray player ($200) and IR sensor ($50) bringing my grand total to $3,500. Its simply not worth it for what you get.]]>Jul 1st 2010 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
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I think I'll wait for the dust to settle before paying almost as much as I did for prescription glasses and frame as I do for special glasses to watch a 3D TV.]]>Jul 1st 2010 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
I'm not saying it isn't cool. What I am saying is, frankly, updating everything necessary to enjoy 3D will cost too fucking much. ]]>Jul 1st 2010 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/]]>Jul 1st 2010 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
No, It is because the cheap passive glasses are cheap and throwaway enough for cinemas to implement the tech. The active glasses are supposed to be better and I think allow the display to be cheaper. (Obviously it is better for cinemas to pay more for the screen tech and less for the glasses).]]>Jul 1st 2010 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 2nd 2010 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
RealD relies on circular polarization which would be prohibitively expensive, if not impossible to achieve with an emissive display. It is much easier and cheaper to implement by projecting onto a screen, which is why theaters use it. ]]>Jul 3rd 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
Yeah, a few grands maybe.]]>Jul 1st 2010 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
That's exactly how much nVidia 3D vision costs and you get the same thing - glasses and IR emitter. I'd honestly rather get these Sony ones though, they look nicer and I like the Sony brand better. Anyone know if they will work with a PC and a 120Hz monitor?]]>Jul 1st 2010 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/@Yankee Not Unless the IR transmitter has a USB connector and some drivers which happen to work just like NVs.]]>Jul 1st 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/
Until then, 3D is what HD was some 7 or 8 years ago: marketing fluff.]]>Jul 1st 2010 3:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/sonys-active-shutter-glasses-now-on-sale-150-buys-your-eyes-a/Jul 1st 2010 8:37AM