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The allure of watching TV in 3D will probably never go away until someone does it right and Neovision thinks it's got a hit on its hands with the iFusion. You apply the iFusion to a portable media player's screen much like one of those cheap screen protectors and somehow the video you're watching is then ushered into the third dimension. Exactly how this work is unclear and unexplained, which is always a good sign.
The iFusion is designed for the iUbi, a portable media player also designed by Neofusion. That said, Neofusion is also designing the iFusion for the Microsoft Zune and Creative Zen Vision W, among others. (No iPod support?)
No word on price, but expect to see it sometime in the first quarter of 2007. But yes, no explanation on the underlying technology really makes you wonder how, or if, this even works. Props to Fabio Cannavaro for heading the ball, however.
Product Page [Neovision via Ubergizmo]
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See now if this thing really works, I'd expect one of the first applications to be for either your regular TV or perhaps even a personal gaming device.
The money I would pay to have Laura Croft's "guns" pop out of my tv!!
from neovision ifusion faq:
Q: Can I see my existing pictures or video in 3d?
A: Probably no - iFusion™ provides the means to view stereo 3d content without the need to wear 3d glasses, but it does not turn regular 2d content into 3d (we wish!). However, there is a huge amount of 3d content available, scattered all over the Internet in the form of videos and pictures. As we build out the community section of our site you will be able to find an increasing amount of diverse 3d content, ready to be viewed on your iFusion™ enabled devices. Also, in the coming weeks we will post tutorials and examples of how to acquire 3d content as well as how to encode it.....
meh
I think they will use a lenticular lense sheet (sheet of vertical half cylinder lenses) to slpit the image on the screen into one for each eye. The video frames will then have to be interleved left/right stereo images.
It sounds like a lenticular screen that will work with custom videos that alternate left and right eye views from pixel to pixel in vertical columns. This means that the horizontal resolution of the 3D videos will be cut in half.
Net result: A few 3D demo videos with a cool novelty effect and little or no third-party support. Buy it, show it to your friends, throw it away.
I'm gonna go ballistic if I have to explain lenticular filters on this site one more time. So thank God Craig did it for me. Screaminly obvious that the editors don't read the comments.
At least your readers know tech. This is obvious to us that it is a lenticular system. Seriously. How many times am I going to have to post a comment about your bloggers living in a Dyson. Friggin learn some tech. You know what they call a tech blogger dork who doesn't know tech? Yep. Just a dork.
I'm the inventor of this technology. Let me first clear up any confusion: this is NOT based on lenticular lenses and it provides full resolution 3d to both eyes (no halfing of the vertical resolution). The visual impact is lightyears ahead of anything lenticular based or parallax barrier based. The encoding format for iFusion is chromatic and anyone can do it - as long as you have access to a stereoscopic source file (Spy Kids 3d, Polar Express, Ant Bully, Sharks 3d, Superman 3d, etc.) it can be shown on iFusion enabled PMPs - the file standard will be open and we will not charge anyone for being able to encode content for iFusion. My apologies for not providing too much detail on our website - we are just getting started. However, feel free to direct any of your questions to info[-at-]neovisionlabs.com (replace [-at-] with @) and I will make sure you get the answers you seek. Finally, we are ramping up producion and our first products should be available by the beginning of 2007.
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