Phillips shows plans for 3D LCD screens

Posted August 23, 2006 at 01:27 AM by Demetrious Villard

Section: Home Audio, Displays

Wired shared one writer’s experience with readers today about Phillips’ newest line of information displays. Their latest venture in the LCD race is making a 3-dimensional display. Information on two models have been released so far, and they both sound promising. Both 3D Intelligent Display Solutions, as the company is dubbing them on their site, utilize WOWvx technology, which places a lens over each subpixel on the 42” screen splitting the light into nine different angles and giving the image a real pop.

Says Wired’s Seán Captain, “I entered a conference room in Manhattan and a woman on the TV tossed a handful of rose petals out of the screen, where they floated in the air before my eyes. At least, that’s what I saw,“ describing the effect of the displays powerful graphics technology.

The display also has near-HD capabilities with 2D images as well; and the ability to read the original information on a game file and represent in its original form, instead of flattening it to 2D as many displays do. It can also do the same with 3D movies, as many more have been released and are scheduled to come.

Phillips is selling the displays, but currently only in the professional field. Plans for a consumer based display are in place, however the company deems that the technology isn’t good enough for the consumer market as of yet (and probably too pricey as well). A few glitches require attention, such as a slight fuzziness around objects when playing video games, and a tendency towards double vision-like imaging in certain movies.

Read [Wired]