3D Monitors

Sony announced taht the PlayStation 3D monitor will be released on November 2nd in Japan, and November 13th worldwide. You can pre-order it now over at Amazon.com for $499. Sony's 3D monitor is a 24" active-shutter LED-backlit LCD that comes bundled with a pair of 3D glasses (charged via USB) and a PS3 game (MotorStorm Apocalypse). The monitor has two HTMI inputs, integrated speakers and subwoofer and quad speed frame sequential display technology. The monitor also supports SimulView - which allows two players to each see a different image on the screen.

This is great news as previously we thought that the release date will be December 31st.

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':

Update: now Sony officially announced that the release date of the 3D monitor will be November 2nd in Japan and November 13th in the rest of the world.

Sony has set the release date for the PlayStation 3D monitor - December 31, 2011. You can pre-order it now over at Amazon.com for $499. Sony's 3D monitor is a 24" active-shutter LED-backlit LCD that comes bundled with a pair of 3D glasses (charged via USB) and a PS3 game (MotorStorm Apocalypse). The monitor has two HTMI inputs, integrated speakers and subwoofer and quad speed frame sequential display technology. The monitor also supports SimulView - which allows two players to each see a different image on the screen.

Global Wave announced a new product called Pic3D - which is a lenticular lens film that you can add to your phone, tablet or laptop screen to turn it into a glasses-free 3D display. Global Wave says that the film is 90% transparent and has a 120 degree field of view. It works with image and video files which use the side-by-side format.

This product has been actually announced last year for the iPad, but now it is improved and it's available in six different sizes (12.1", 21.5", 23" and also for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch). It will finally ship soon - in August and will cost ¥2,000 ($25) for the iPhone size and ¥15,000 ($185) for the 23" size.

Back in January 2011 Samsung and RealD announced they will jointly develop 3D panels using the new active-switching technology. Now Samsung Electronics say that they expect 23" and 27" 3D panels (for PC monitors) that use this technology to be available in early 2012. 55" panels will follow suit later on.

The new panels offer full resolution HD viewing in 3D (for each eye) and are compatible with RealD's 3D cinema eyewear. The idea is to provide the active-shutter technology in the display and not in the glasses.

According to reports, AUO plans to start mass production glasses-free 3D displays in 3Q 2011 aimed for laptops. The company expects 15.6" notebooks with the new 3D panels to become available during 3Q 2011.

AUO's panels offer dead-zone free 3D using incorporated switchable lens technology and face-tracking. The company estimates that by 2013, 3D TV will account for 30% of all LCD TVs sold. In computer notebooks, tablets and LCD monitors, 3D will account for 10% of the market.

Eizo Nano announced a new 3D LCD for mammography equipment. This new monitor (called RadiForce GS521-ST) will offer 21.3", 2560x2048 resolution and uses the 'half mirror method' which uses two LCDs, a mirror and passive glasses.

The half-mirror method uses 2 LCDs which display the left and right images. The mirror is half transparent, which means that the images are both reflected and passing through. A special chip turns the reflected images upside down and the mirror also rotates the light polarization. Using polarized (passive) 3D glasses you can watch the final image.