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UK's Dixons Retail Group says that 3D TV sales have increased dramatically over the last quarter - a 500% annual growth. 3D TVs now account for 20% of all TVs sold at Dixons. They say that this jump is due to lower prices and more 3D content being available today. 3D is also featured in more and more TVs - about 40% of the company's stock of TVs feature 3D.

Dixons says that passive 3D models (such as the LG LW650T and the Toshiba VL863 series) have sold very well.

Toshiba's Qosmio F750 is the world's first glasses-free 3D laptop, with a 15.6" Full-HD lenticular display. 2D and 3D images can co-exist - in separate windows and it uses an eye-tracking HD webcam to enable 3D from any angle. Engadget says that the videos were pretty mouthwatering - even though they say a pre-production device (the software is not ready yet). On the downside, the headtracking seems slow and 3D is only possible for one viewer.

Other specs include an Intel Core i7 CPU, Nvidia Geforce GT540M GPU, a BDXL drive, USB 3 port and HDMI output. The laptop will launch in August 2011 for around $2100.

Toshiba shows a new 8" 800x480 (WVGA) glasses-free 3D display at SID 2011, intended for tablet devices, probably. The display uses Optically Compensated Bend (OCB) Time Sequential 3D display - which means that you have two 'blinking' backlights - one for each eye. The display offers 400 cd/m² brightness and Toshiba says you can watch 3D when distanced between 25cm and 70cm from the display.

According to Digitimes, Toshiba plans to launch glasses-free laptops in 2H 2011. Toshiba actually demonstrated a prototype 3D laptop in CES 2011, called the Qosmio. It had a parallax-barrier LCD (with one viewpoint) and an eye-tracking camera.

Toshiba is already offering glasses-free displays, and sales are still weak: in the first month they sold only 500 units of the 20GL1 20" model (which costs ¥240,000, which is over $2,900) and even fewer 12GL1 12" units (these cost ¥120,000, about $1,500).

Toshiba says that sales of their GL1 glasses-free displays have been weak in the first month - they sold only 500 units of the 20GL1 20" model (which costs ¥240,000, which is over $2,900) and even fewer 12GL1 12" units (these cost ¥120,000, about $1,500). Toshiba says they expected to sell more than a 1,000 units of the 20GL1.

This is not a big surprise - these sets are expensive, and very small. Toshiba says that the low sales tell them they need to offer bigger sets.

Toshiba is showing a new glasses-free LCD 3D TV at CES. It's capable of showing 4K resolution - but only in 2D mode. It offers 3 viewing positions, and reports say that the 3D quality isn't as good as in active-shutter 3D TVs. But obviously this is just a prototype - and Toshiba seems to be seriously into glasses-free 3D technology...

via Engadget

Toshiba is showing a new glasses-free 3D laptop concept called the Qosmio. Beside the parallax-barrier LCD, the laptop also features an eye-tracking camera that can help to provide better 3D images (i.e. without a "dead-zone"). Although this works for just one viewer.

via Engadget