3D Glasses May Soon be a Thing of the Past as Patent Promises Holographic Display Screens

Teresa Neumann-Commentary : Jan 3, 2011
Richard Gray - The Telegraph U.K.

"It's easy to imagine things like amazing 3D textbooks and instructional videos. 3D gaming on an iPad would be an incredibly immersive gaming experience."

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Daniel 12:4 tells us, "Many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase."

Well, knowledge certainly is increasing these days!

You might be surprised to know that BCN's Founding Editor, Steve Shultz, is a real technophile who tends to see the positive aspects of new technology. I, on the other hand, am somewhat of a technophobe. Not only do I need to be sold on a new tech idea before buying into it, I need to learn how to use it in order to really get on board.

Which brings us to this article, forwarded to me by Mr. Shultz. I must admit, when I stop and think about Skyping my family back east and actually seeing them in 3D, I can get excited about this technology.

Here's what The Telegraph U.K. reported: "A recently granted patent reveals Apple has been working on a new type of display screen that produces three dimensional and even holographic images without the need for glasses. The technology could reportedly be used to produce a new generation of televisions, computer monitors and cinema screens."

States the patent: "An exceptional aspect of the invention is that it can produce viewing experiences that are virtually indistinguishable from viewing a true hologram. Such a "pseudo-holographic" image is a direct result of the ability to track and respond to observer movements. By tracking movements of the eye locations of the observer, the left and right 3D sub-images are adjusted in response to the tracked eye movements to produce images that mimic a real hologram.

"The invention can accordingly continuously project a 3D image to the observer that recreates the actual viewing experience that the observer would have when moving in space around and in the vicinity of various virtual objects displayed therein. This is the same experiential viewing effect that is afforded by a hologram. It allows the observer, for example, to move around a virtual object and to observe multiple sides from different angles."

According to the report, Leander Kahney, a consumer technology expert, said, "It's easy to imagine things like amazing 3D textbooks and instructional videos. 3D gaming on an iPad would be an incredibly immersive gaming experience."