I wonder if these will work for me? I cannot see traditional 3-d images (red and blue glasses, magic eye prints). Interesting technology, but it sounds expensive.

@ Bill:
Do you know why you don’t see 3D images? Is one eye much stronger than the other?

And yes, this will be pretty expensive (at least at first)–if in fact it happens. The thing is that for the demonstration that Panasonic showed here at CES–a 10-minute video montage of various 3D content, from Bolt to NBA basketball to anime–the company encoded special extra information on a Blu-ray disc. They’re showing 1080p hi-def to *each eye*, which is not part of the Blu-ray standard, so they’re trying to get the Blu-ray alliance to change the standard to include this. No idea if that will really fly. Pana said they were targeting 2010 to release the tech, but I wonder if that’s an optimistic timeline.

Plus they did the demonstration on a 103-inch plasma screen, which is, y’know, pretty hi-end. James Dolan, head honcho at Cablevision, was sitting behind me in the demo, which makes it even more hi-end.

Bill, I have the same problem with normal 3D images because I have a lazy eye. But I went to see Bolt in 3D with glasses like those in the video and I saw it fine. Blocking my “active” eye forces me to look out of my other eye, so I saw the 3D images.

I can’t wait to get this in my house.

These guys claim to be able to deliver 3D movies on an XBOX 360 NOW…

http://marketsaw.blogspot.com/2009/01/ces-2009-next3d-offers-free-in-home-3d.html

http://www.next3d.com

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