| Raze said: ... So yes, while Apple may use glasses-free 3D tech, they won't be really affecting the gaming market at all. If anyone would be at a disadvantage, its Sony and other companies making 3Dtvs that require glasses. As Apple and other companies make larger screens, glass-free tvs will start coming out. |
I hope you understand that Sony is working on larger glassless 3D screens and presented a series of prototype models at CES 2011. And the change in display technology - glass vs glassless - is completely orthogonal to BluRay players or consoles feeding the 3D signal to the TV, thus the transition from glass to glassless 3D will be a completely transparent and entirely tech/market driven process.
Right now it is not -yet- commercially viable having a big glassless display, because of the cost and the usability problem of the hotspot/viewing angle. When the tech will improve enough and costs will go down, it will be panel makers like Sharp and integrators like Sony to lead the transition for the big TV segment. Apple and Nintendo will have nothing to do with that.
Devices with glassless 3D screens (smartphones, handhelds etc) can't impact the market of big TV screens at the center of a hometheater because they can't fulfill the same function. They will cut into the market of dedicated portable videoplayers, from cheap portable dvd readers to more expensive iPod touch-like devices.
I really wish that the meme I see going around that "Nintendo's glassless 3D will disrupt Sony's glass-based efforts" - not sure if you subscribe to it, Raze - would be put under some logical scrutiny. All marketers of 3D TVs, including Sony, are ready to jump on the market of glassless 3D as soon as it makes sense and I'm sure they'll be happy to serve the tiered market with premiuim - read expensive - models as soon as the tech is even remotely viable.
