Sony is coming out with 3D TVs that won’t require the wearing of special 3D glasses for viewing.

The technology that Sony is using for such a TV is called autostereoscopy which uses thousands of tiny mirrors that are placed within the display. This creates the illusion of depth. The mirror effect converts the screen into a window by tricking the eyes of the viewer. Sony is coming up with a 46 inch 3D TV set based on this technology.

Viewing 3D without glasses has been researched upon quite extensively the whole of last year and some ingenious methods or technology has been evolved. One of them was on show at the CTIA trade show held last year which had the people there in awe.

The problem with the methods that were being evolved was one, and that being that the 3D effect was effective only for those who were positioned head-on with the screen. For big screens where the viewing angle was more, the technology did not seem to work. The Nintendo 3DS model too faced this problem to a large extent.

Advances in autostereoscopic technology has helped to overcome this problem to a great extent. There is also the issue of low cost 3D TVs coming into the market that is posing a serious threat to the high end ones who have been forced to reduce price to stay in competition.

Whatever be the case, wearing of glasses to view 3D is something that viewers have voted against.

via tgdaily

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