3D TVs without glasses?!

First it was DLP then LCD then Plasma then LED. The new thing is 3D TVs and even though they have barely been out for 6 months, they are already being upgraded. The biggest complaints that people have with 3D TVs is that you have to wear special glasses to view 3D media. Now a few companies like Samsung and Intel have created special TVs that do not require glasses to watch 3D media. Of course this technology is still almost in the concept form. Intel gave a demonstration on their glassless 3D TVs and the Engadget reporter said that the experience was phenomenal if you stood at one of the eight postions where it worked. Otherwise the experience was sub-par and also, even if you were standing from one of the 8 “optimal” viewing angles, the quality was still sub 720p quality. I myself have seen a glassless 3D in person at the Museum of Science and Industry and I had the same experience as the guys over at Engadget in which it was very blurry when I viewed it from a distance and there was like 1 spot where it really was clear and the 3Dness (if that’s a word…) was perceptible.

With this information I’m very skeptical about many of the mobile devices with “3D” screens. India’s “Spice Mobility” has just announced the release of its “M-67 3D” phone which has a glassless 3D screen and only costs $97. The Nintendo 3DS is one of the better known glassless 3D devices which has yet to come out (anytime now Nintendo…..) but from the previews we have seen of it, it doesn’t look too bad.