The application states that the invention would need a number of “building blocks” for it to work, including:

• A two-dimensional projector, including analog mirrors, a polygon scanner or similar device, and driver circuitry.
• A 3D imager (which may be part of the 2D projector).
• A projection screen having a surface function.
• A display interface.
• A digital signal processor.
• A host central processing unit with 3D rendering capability.

Q: Ingemar, thanks for answering this. You are building a Laser-LCoS based 3D TV. Can you tell us a bit about the technology? Who are your business partners? (for the lasers, LCoS panels, etc)?
Yes we are building laser/Lcos stereoscopic 100″ display, it is our own developed technology both with the lasers and the Lcos chip.

Q: You are using Polarization-technology for the 3D. How does that compare with Active-Shutter 3D?

We are using dual 1920X1080 Lcos, full 1080 per eye all the time means passive glasses. We do not like active “flicker” glasses. The big boys are hostage to their own technology LCD and Plasma which requires Active “expensive flicker glasses”, they have no other choice.

Q: In December 2009 you said that the Laser TVs will cost $10,000 to $15,000, with first units available in May. Is that still on track?In 10K volumes the cost is correct, sample units are available in June.

To read more of the interview head over to 3D-Display-Info.com

Source: 3D Vision Blog

“Our engineers have been working closely with 4A Games to ensure that Metro 2033 takes full advantage of some of the spectacular effects made possible with the next generation of DX11 hardware,” said Tony Tamasi, SVP, Content & Technology at NVIDIA. “The 4A Engine is one of the most advanced game engines we’ve ever worked with, and with DX11 enabled, Metro 2033 is undoubtedly one of the best looking PC games of 2010. Combine this with NVIDIA 3D Vision and PhysX and you will experience mind-blowing visuals.”

Look for METRO 2033 in PC and Xbox 360 formats on March 16 in North America and Germany, March 18 in Australia and March 19 for the UK and Europe.

Head over to Marketsaw for more photos and information on the game.

Now this one I could see being bundled with 3D branded Blu-ray players and televisions during the holidays. Many people were concerned about the release of the 3D DVD version of Avatar because there really wasn’t any solid news on its release. All anyone heard was news of the standard DVD release.

Well for those of you Avatar fans, it looks like James Cameron put to rest any rumors that we would be waiting years to see the movie come to 3D blu-ray.  In an interview posted on the Wall Street Journal blog section Cameron says:

“It’s all right on schedule,” said Cameron. “We’ll do the Blu-ray and the standard def DVD April 22^nd, that’s our plan as of right now, and that’ll be pretty much bare bones. And then we’ll do a value-added DVD and a 3-D Blu-ray in I think November sometime.”

Cameron also talked about wanting to do a sequel to Avatar but wants to do it much faster and cheaper. We also have been hearing rumors of some of his other movies which are or have been converted to 3D.  Maybe we’ll see them appear for the holiday season as well.

Source: Wall Street Journal

Harry Friedman, executive producer of “Wheel” and “Jeopardy!,” introduced the clip.

“One of the biggest challenges is keeping a game show fresh — by changing the show without changing the game,” he said. “We do that with enhanced production value, such as set design. We typically do dimensionalized sets, which are made for 3D.”

He added that there is no set time that this could be rolled out. But we could see some novelty in game shows using 3D on passive 3D tv sets.

• Records two images at 1920 x 1080 as individual RAW files in DNG format.
• Color depth: 12 bits.
• Speed: 25 or 30 frames per second.
• 6 pounds (including battery and memory)

Source: Ikonoskop

Lets face it, pretty much everyone knows that if you are going to be in a non-fixed entertainment setting (pretty much anything outside of a Movie with no commercials) that glasses don’t seem like an appealing option. Of course soccer is one of the rare sports that don’t have commercial breaks every 5 minutes. However people are considerably more social in a pub environment. Often times people are not close enough to the TV for the 3D experience to be of any real value.  What all of this means is that the glasses are just going to be a burden to deal with, unless you are seated at the perfect spot in front of a high quality projector screen.

In my opinion, the current non-passive 3D experiences will be successful in dedicated movie and gaming settings where the screen size take up a fair amount of a person’s direct point of view. This may seem obvious to most people, however in their excitement to promote new products I have a feeling 3D media companies could be shooting themselves in the foot by getting bad press for these staged events that don’t represent an environment where today’s 3D technologies really shine.

Once passive 3D screens start rolling out over the next 3 to 5 years, 3D will start to really take on a different meaning.  An autostereo screen in a bar will look more like viewing the game through a window.  Depth is key here, and as you may know already, depth is something we cannot emphasize more. 3D on a television really should be compared to looking through a window, with only a slight effect of “things coming out at you”.

So my basic point here is, the smaller the screen is in front of you, and the more social distractions around you, the greater the chance that you will be taking off your 3D glasses and asking the pub owner if there is a non-3D TV that you can view.

Roberts sees 3D ready TV’s to be in many homes within “10 years” but doesn’t see 3D as a full time viewing option, because people will be unwilling to wear glasses.  He compares it to blue tooth technologies.

What Roberts seems to miss is the auto or passive 3D appearance TVs will start to offer in about 3 years.  So in 10 years, the idea of using glasses to view 3D content is not very forward thinking, in our opinion.  Of course Comcast has the money to catch up if they need to and their current infrastructure already supports 3D. Once enough demand grows, they just take on already in production 3D channels and are ready to roll.   So as long as TV manufactures believe in 3D with and without glasses, and there is enough compelling content, then cable providers will fall in line. I think that may be part of Roberts’ lack of concern for 3D. Simply because he doesn’t have to push for it like 3D content and manufacturers do.