OLED glasses are your own personal 3D home theater
Posted by admin in Concept on 30. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Carl Zeiss has been making their Cinemizer video glasses for a few years, but now they added 3D capability for home theater and gaming applications. The Cinemizer Plus video glasses have a tiny 16:9 format OLED screen in each eyepiece, with a native resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. The resulting field of view is [...]
Sharp reveals glasses-free 3D touchscreen display
Posted by admin in Electronics on 06. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
Sharp has revealed a glasses-free 3.4in stereoscopic LCD touchscreen display for use in digital cameras, smartphones and other handheld devices. The company claims that the new screen offers the highest brightness in the industry, reduced crosstalk and can easily be switched between 2D and 3D mode. Perhaps further fueling speculation that Nintendo’s 3DS gaming device [...]
Interactive 3D Viewing Box Lets You Browse and Control Virtual Worlds Without Glasses
Posted by admin in Electronics, Hi-tech on 30. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
pCubee The not-so-poor man’s alternative to 3D University of British Columbia People who hate wearing 3-D glasses may like a new approach from a company called pCubee. A handheld cube-shaped device uses small LCD panels on all sides to create the illusion of playing with 3-D objects within a virtual cube, such as tiny cows [...]
Hubble 3D Review: The Ultimate Hubblegasm
Posted by admin in Space on 19. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
24-Hour Service Astronauts John Grunsfeld (left) and Andrew Feustel perform repairs on the Hubble telescope during one of many periods of darkness in the final seven-hour space walk. We do a lot of Hubble gawking here. Arguably NASA’s most enduring mission, the telescope has provided humans with the deepest possible look into the corners of [...]
How It Works: Upscaling 2-D Video to 3-D
Posted by admin in Concept, Hi-tech on 11. Mar, 2010 | 3 Comments
3-D TVs are finally going on sale–sans content. So some sets are claiming the ability to add a third dimension to your 2-D broadcasts Watch 2-D Home Movies of Yourself Watching 3-D TV…In 3-D! More than a year after the first consumer 3-D-ready HDTVs were demoed at CES, the next generation of sets are going [...]
