Mobilizedtv

Mobile 3-D, Part II: Music to One’s Eyes?

The first 3-D TV broadcast was in 1928, and by 1953 Business Week ran the headline “3-D Invades TV.” Stereoscopic TV is hardly new. The idea that 3-D needs to recreate the depth cues of the real world, however, is arguable. Is 3-D, like sound, color, and increased detail, the next step towards reproducing reality? Or might it be more like film music?

Mark Schubin on Mobile 3D: Muscles Matter

Clearly, technology issues are associated with 3D viewing on a mobile device. Instead of just one image, two are needed–one for each eye. The display needs to prevent the wrong eye from seeing its partner’s image. Are glasses needed? That’s a bummer.

Engineers have been tackling those issues and have already come so far that glasses-free 3-D was demonstrated on a tiny mobile-phone screen at the April 2009 National Association of Broadcasters convention. But that’s technology. Then there is psychophysics.