Sharp develops 3d flat screen

[Mister Frag 0]

From http://news.com.com/2100-1040-959879.html

This is cetainly not the first 3D screen, but the first one expected to be cheap enough for gamers instead of professional users.

Sharp develops 3D flat screen

By Reuters

September 27, 2002, 7:22 AM PT

Sharp, Japan's largest maker of liquid-crystal displays, said Friday its researchers in Britain have developed a flat-panel display for either two- or three-dimensional viewing that does not require special glasses.

The company added it aimed to set up a consortium with major high-tech companies such as Sony and Microsoft to promote the new technology.

"In the same way that black-and-white TVs switched to color, we really think displays are going to switch to 3D,'' Stephen Bold, managing director of Sharp Laboratories of Europe, said after a news conference.

He expects the displays will initially draw interest largely for use in game machines but will eventually be used widely in products from PCs to TVs.

Mikio Katayama, general manager of Sharp's mobile LCD group, said volume production of the screens will start within the next few months and the first products using them will hit the market early next year.

Three-dimensional displays that need no special glasses have been around for some time, Bold said. But the main challenge was making it possible to switch between the ordinary 2D mode and 3D with the push of a button, while providing the same image resolution in the 2D mode as in a standard display without 3D capability.

Sharp's Oxford laboratory, which spent 10 years developing the technology, also struggled to keep costs low enough so that the price won't scare away consumers.

The company is initially aiming for costs no more than 50 percent above a conventional display and hopes to bring that down to about 20 percent within a few years, Bold said.

The screens can only be seen in 3D from certain angles and distances, however, and a "sweet spot indicator''--a small bar at the lower end of the screen--appears solid black when the viewer is at an optimum position for 3D.

Bold said progress in 3D screens is gaining momentum and in another decade they may be advanced enough for normal viewing by several people at once, without sacrificing image resolution.

[Die Alive 0]

And this TV will cost how much? $30 000 maybe?  We already have a $20 000 TV on the market. Ah, such expensive televisions, but still the same crappy programs/movies.

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[Mister Frag 0]

Did you actually read the story?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">He expects the displays will initially draw interest largely for use in game machines but will eventually be used widely in products from PCs to TVs.

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Sharp's Oxford laboratory, which spent 10 years developing the technology, also struggled to keep costs low enough so that the price won't scare away consumers.

The company is initially aiming for costs no more than 50 percent above a conventional display and hopes to bring that down to about 20 percent within a few years, Bold said.

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[bn880 5]

How the heck does this work? Old technology? I'v never heard of this. I'm going to read up on it.

EDIT: Oh okay, it is using the angle of the 2 eyes to send different images... neat!

http://www4.tomshardware.com/display/01q2/010516/3dlcd-01.html

[Rob 1]

sounds sweet to me

[Mister Frag 0]

And in a couple of years, the cost is expected to be only about 20% more than that of a conventional flat-panel display.

This is going to revolutionize gaming, folks!

[bn880 5]

Looking forward to it, I agree it will revolutionize gaming, if it works well and is semi-affordable.

Wonder if they are experimenting with LEC's.... Light Emitting Cells.

[Die Alive 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ Sep. 27 2002,13:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Did you actually read the story?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">He expects the displays will initially draw interest largely for use in game machines but will eventually be used widely in products from PCs to TVs.

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Sharp's Oxford laboratory, which spent 10 years developing the technology, also struggled to keep costs low enough so that the price won't scare away consumers.

The company is initially aiming for costs no more than 50 percent above a conventional display and hopes to bring that down to about 20 percent within a few years, Bold said.

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Talk is cheap. Show me the money. Do you want fries with that? Sell sell sell. Is that your final answer?

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[Mister Frag 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (bn880 @ Sep. 27 2002,10:44)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Wonder if they are experimenting with LEC's.... Light Emitting Cells.<span id='postcolor'>

I don't know what technology they will be using for these displays, but I'll bet you anything it won't be TFT LCDs. There are lots of other promising technologies that are both cheaper and better-performing than that.

OLEP (organic light emitting polymer) for example can be read even in direct sunlight, have a very high resolution, don't require a glass substrate, and have the potential for being manufactured very inexpensively.

[Frisbee 0]

3D screen?3D illusion more like :]

[/smartass]

It'd be cool though,especially for things like FPS's..

[moerty 0]

if it works i'll eventually buy one, what i would really like is the ability to spilt a screen into 3 monitors, that way i can have a middle view and 2 side/periphral views. 2 screens don't cut it.