3dTV is old tech

lee636

You can even get 3d pinball tables http://www.bmigaming.com/Images/revengefrommars.gif

The image is projected down onto the playing field, sensors replicate your ball on the 'on screen' characters.

OK_Sauce

None of the images either in the cinema or on the tv look particularly 3D to me. They're more like infinite planes of 2D images. Now if you could look around an image like in a hologram, then I might be interested!

thor

OK_Sauce wrote: »

Now if you could look around an image like in a hologram, then I might be interested!

Like in the holodeck in Star Trek NG? That was brought out in the 80s; definitely old technology.

phil12345_2

OK_Sauce wrote: »

None of the images either in the cinema or on the tv look particularly 3D to me. They're more like infinite planes of 2D images. Now if you could look around an image like in a hologram, then I might be interested!

There's something like that being developed at the University of Surrey at the moment. (I think I'm allowed to say that!) 3D TV will only be useful in the home when it can be viewed with no artefacts from anywhere in the room and not just from a central position.

Also, while the concept of 3dtv may not be new, more recent compression codecs mean that the extra depth information can be physically distributed to the mass market at a reasonable cost...