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Sony is showing a new 46" glasses-free 3D TVs. The panel is an LCD panel, here's a video showing the display in action:

According to Sony Gulf managing director Osamu Miura, the company plans to launch glasses-free 3D TVs within 3-4 years. Sony is also working towards OLED TVs and 4K technology products within the same time frame.

Back in CES 2011 Sony demonstrated a glasses-free 24.5" OLED panel.

Back in August, Sony, Panasonic and Samsung announced a new initiative to standardize active 3D glasses called the Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative. Now this initiative has launched. The wireless protocols included in this standard are RF and IR and these glasses will be compatible the XPanD 3D standard. Compatible glasses and sets will show the logo displayed below.

Twelve companies said they will support the new standard - Changhong Electric, FUNAI Electric, Hisense, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Philips, Seiko Epson, Sharp, SIM2 Multimedia, TCL, Toshiba and ViewSonic. The companies setup a test center that will verify compliance of products with the initiative's specifications.

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.

Sony unveiled a new lenticular 3D sheet that can be used to make laptop screens into glasses-free 3D displays. The company will release the first such screen developed for the Vaio S series (VPCSE1Z9E ) in size 15.5" in October 2011 (together with the laptop's release) - for 129 euro (about $180).

The panel is 3mm thick, and is attached to the front of the LCD panel. The 3D effect is realized based on the lenticular method, which creates parallax by arraying lenses that are thin and long and have a semicircular cross section. Sony also developed a software that uses the notebook's web camera for head tracking to optimize the 3D image.

Sony announced a new product today, the HMZ-T1 - a 3D OLED Head Mounted Display (HMD). They will launch it in in November (in Japan at first) for ¥60,000 (about $780). Sony uses Dual Panel 3D technology which utilizes separate panels for the left and right eyes, each with its own dedicated 3D video.

via OLED-Info.com

Sony Ericsson will provide a software upgrade to Xperia smartphones in October 2011, which will enable a 3D "sweep" panorama photo taking option. You'll be able to capture 3D images and view them on 3D TVs using HDMI output. This option will be available for Xperia smartphones released in 2011.