Will Your Next Display Be 3D?

[Spinner]

Yasushi Yamamoto, an employee of Sharp has said that a new generation of display technologies may soon take your desktop to a whole new dimension and perhaps sooner than you think.

The 3D function of the display works because of a set of vertical black lines in front of the display. These lines, known as a parallax barrier, are positioned such that each of your eyes only sees half the pixels. This effectively halves the total resolution of the display but allows for a 3D image to be seen without any special glasses. Yamamoto says the 3D effect more than makes up for the lower resolution.
Source: PCWorld.com (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115975,00.asp)

[TheSmJ]

These monitors have been around for years. Pretty expensive though.

[Spinner]

These monitors have been around for years. Pretty expensive though.
Indeed, but like with all a million and 1 other things that have been around for years, it's about bringing them down to a realistic production and feature level so they're viable for the consumer. So from the consumer markets point of view, if it makes it down to that level, it will be new technology from that perspective.

[bothered]

I'd love to see one. I'm sure it'll happen and eventually be affordable, then count me in.