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Sony Re-introduces Stereoscopic 3D
Sony announced a $5,000 15.6-inch display, built on a metal wedge, with stereoscopic 3D, called a Spatial Reality Display or ELF-SR1 that works without glasses. Looking Glass also sells one, for $3,000, though it’s a little bit different.
A Verge reported tested the device and said, “I plugged it into a powerful gaming computer, and fired up the first demo. A tiny, intricately detailed Volkswagen Atlas materialized in front of my face — and when I pressed a button, it floated right up out of the screen.
Sony announced a $5,000 15.6-inch display, built on a metal wedge, with stereoscopic 3D, called a Spatial Reality Display or ELF-SR1 that works without glasses. Looking Glass also sells one, for $3,000, though it’s a little bit different.
A Verge reported tested the device and said, “I plugged it into a powerful gaming computer, and fired up the first demo. A tiny, intricately detailed Volkswagen Atlas materialized in front of my face — and when I pressed a button, it floated right up out of the screen.
A couple minutes later, I was watching a 4-inch tall anime girl dance her heart out inside Sony’s contraption, tapping her feet atop a floor of hexagonal mirrors. It’s the magic of stereoscopic 3D.”
- Sony’s camera tracks your face and eyes, making real-time adjustments as you look at models, pictures, and so on.
- It’s by no means perfect. It works for one viewer only, and it’s really an in-person effect only, not really demonstrable in our 2D world.
- The 3D illusion can be broken as you lean in too far, or move sides.
- Sony has released an SDK for both Unreal and Unity.
- Sony will show this off at a virtual demo sign up on October 22nd at 3pm ET, but the 3D effect can’t really be shown so… who knows what we’ll see?
