3D devices

AU Optronics announced it will partner with IDent Technology to develop gesture-controlled 3D displays. AUO integrate Ident's GestIC 3D gesture control chip together with their own 2D multi touch and 3D LCD modules.

The GestIC is based on near-field electric sensing, which means it can be integrated into a standard touch panel, and it's not an expensive solution. The GestIC chip sensing capabilities provide real-time, robust, low-power tracking of free space hand or finger movements in front of a device such as a display. The device senses hand and finger motions and translates it to gesture commands or positional data.

Samsung's new series-9 monitors finally arrived in the US - the 23" S23A950D costs $544 while the 27" S27A950D costs $690. These monitors offer Full-HD, 2ms response time, a built-in 3D emitter for active-shutter glasses and 2D-to-3D conversion. Other features include D-sub, HDMI, DisplayPort and DVI-DualLink. They can come with a TV tuner, too. They also offer a beautiful 'curved design':

LG Electronics announced a new "3D Synergy" strategy - that focuses on interconnecting various 3D devices - such as 3D TVs, cameras, phones, games, projectors, monitors and laptops. LG hopes that this strategy will help solve the lack of content issue, and will make LG the world's leading 3D device producer.

LG LW6500 3D TV

It's not clear exactly what this strategy means beside marketing currently, we'll have to wait and see. One thing that LG is considering developing inter-connecting services that will enable 3D games on 3D devices or sharing of 3D movies.

TechOn teardown team got hold of the Nintendo 3DS and posted a long teardown report. It isn't finished yet (they're still updating it) - but it's already an interesting read - especially as they dismantled the 3D display first, so you can see photos and details about the parallax-barrier LCD. Here's a closeup photo of the barrier film:

AU Optronics will showcase some new 3D displays in the FPD international exhibition next week (that's in addition to the deadzone-free glasses-free 3D display they announced yesterday). The first is a 71" 21:9 3D LCD panel. It offers 240Hz refresh-rate, LED-backlit and features polarized 3D.

The second display is a 65" 3D touch panel for gaming application, which includes an infrared video camera that detects the player's movements as he or she interacts with the 3D images. Another display is a 65" QFHD 4K2K lenticular lens (glasses-free) 3D LCD TV panel. AUO says they have developed new technology that solved the problem of uneven brightness - this 3D panel has brightness as high as 500 nits with 8 viewpoints.

Finally, AUO is showing a 4" 3D touch panel for smartphones or tablet computers. It uses a light pen so that users can interact in 3D.

There are reports that Toshiba is set to release a high-end tablet with a 3D display. This will be the premium model of their Folio family of Android tablets. The 3D display will have a 1024 X 600 resolution, and that's all we know. It'll probably require glasses. Even though Toshiba plans to release glasses-free displays soon, these will be very expensive in the near future.

Telefunken is showing a range of Android tablets. One of them (called the Telefunken T12 3D Touch PAD) has a 7" touch 3D display. It's only a prototype, and the display needs glasses.Other features include a GPS, HD video playback and Wi-Fi.

We don't know if/when they plan to release this, and at what price. Via I4U