3D TV not far away

[TheDruid]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71627-0.html?tw=wn_index_3

I think they are right when they say game companies will be the first to use this technology in a home aplication. Next will be computer animated miovies.

[Darren Dirt]

A processor in the TV generates nine slightly different views corresponding to the different angles. From almost any location, a viewer catches a different image in each eye.

Providing so many views is key to the dramatic results. Sharp Electronics makes an LCD display that projects just two views, requiring an audience to sit perfectly still in front of the screen. With the Philips technology, viewers can move around without losing much of the effect -- one set of left/right views slips into another, with just a slight double-vision effect in the transitions.

Philips has developed hardware and software that can extract the original depth information from the game engine and use it to create 3-D images on a WOWvx display.

Impressive.

In New York, the company demonstrated the technique with the first-person shooter Call of Duty. It looked almost perfect, except for a little shimmering around the edges of objects, which Philips says will be fixed in the coming months.

The company also has plans for video. The ultimate hope is that studios will produce more 3-D content, like the recent 3-D version of Sony Pictures' Monster House that screened in 162 U.S. theaters. But Philips is developing software to convert standard video to 3-D by analyzing movement to determine the original depth position of people and objects.

A standard laptop running Philips' software was able to convert the DVD The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King into 3-D in real time and display it on Philips's new 20-inch "3D 4YOU" LCD monitor -- a retail-kiosk implementation of the 3-D screen.

Wow, they're thinking of everything, no obstacles to consumer acceptance left unresolved...

[Lazybones]

Imax and Lucas films have been working on 3-D automatic conversions as well.. Word has it there will be another Star Wars re-release in 3-D

[Shayne]

SO in 5 years I will need a new TV for Xbox720?  I cant wait :O  3D is missing in many games and if its done right it will look good.  Madden 07 does a fake 3D effect with blurs in the far distance but does a person really loose that much detail and visibility less then 100 yards away?  I really doubt it.  Which brings up an interesting point, i wonder how well something like a smoke grenade in CoD2 looked.