Hate 3D Glasses Enter the LG DX2000 3D Display
Do you hate 3D glasses? Well so do we! Watching anything 3D requires you to wear those sexy streamlined glasses they always push on you at the movies. Even then, it can be a little lackluster. Not for LG these days. Preceded by the worlds first glass-free 3D smartphone LG Optimus 3D, LG has just introduced the LG Cinema 3D DX2000 20-inch LED computer display. The largest and most recent 3D display produced at this time. This LG Cinema 3D DX2000 is an LED computer display, max resolution is 1600x900px, 5ms response time, DVI and HDMI ports. The Built-in webcam can be used for a general purpose everyday webcam as well.
Part of the reason this hasn’t come out sooner or 3D hasn’t moved forward faster is that there was a technical limitation with 3D TV’s projecting two sets of images, one pair for each eye. The goofy glasses, their job is to arrange those images so they will synchronize and you seem to see a single image (sort of…). Older 3D TV’s did exist, but with preset viewing angles so you could watch from left or right of the TV, but you’d have to adjust the angle first. Which brings us to the LG DX2000 Display which tracks you instead of us putting on glasses to synchronize 4 pictures, (2 for each eye) so our eye’s will interpolate the chorus of pictures correctly, or not so correctly for some.
This LED display comes with eye-tracking technology which will adjust the parallax-barrier 3D effect accordingly, which I suppose means: Remember those old 3D pictures that used the bending of light through plastic to layer the images and give the appearance of 3D? Apparently this LED 3D Display does it similarly, in that the web-cam will track your eye, and then adjust for the best output for the angle you are viewing the screen. Interesting to ponder the ways developers can infiltrate this technology to integrate with games or productivity, From Kinect to Apple to LG, certainly there is some new found interest in eye-tracking and recognition. The future is brighter!
Priced at about $1,200.00 , release date Winter 2011
Here’s the Press Release:
SEOUL, July, 13, 2011 – LG Electronics (LG) today unveiled the world’s first glasses-free monitor utilizing eye-tracking technology to maintain an optimal 3D image from a range of viewing angles. The 20-inch D2000 (Korean model: DX2000) monitor was developed as a fully functional entertainment display capable of reproducing games, movies and images in all their realistic glory. “With a full line-up of 3D TVs, laptops, projectors and smartphones, LG Electronics is by far and away the industry leader in all things 3D.” said Si-hwan Park, Vice President of the Monitor Division at LG’s Home Entertainment Company. “LG’s position has always been that 3D will and must eventually function without glasses. The D2000 is a look at what the future has in store.”
The D2000’s 3D effect comes courtesy of glasses-free parallax barrier 3D technology, and the application of the world’s first eye-tracking feature to the monitor. The combination of parallax barrier and eye-tracking in a single unit promises to open up new horizons for glasses-free 3D products.
Existing glasses-free 3D technologies generally require viewers to stay within a tightly restricted angle and distance to perceive the 3D images. However, the D2000 has done much to resolve this issue, allowing viewer much freer movement and more comfortable viewing. Eye tracking in the D2000 works via a special camera sensor attached to the monitor which detects changes in the user’s eye position in real-time. With this information, the monitor calculates the angle and position of the viewer and adjusts the displayed image for the optimal 3D effect.
In addition to playing back existing 3D content, the D2000 has a highly refined 2D to 3D conversion feature which adds a new dimension to existing movies and game playing.
The D2000, available in Korea this month, will be introduced in other markets around the world in the latter part of 2011.
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