Sony Developing 3D Screen-Sharing Technology For Two Players

Stoobalou writes "Sony has recently published patent applications which will allow two-player 3D gaming on a single screen. The new technology could spell an end to split-screen gaming, but is unlikely to see the light of day for a few years at least. Sony's method would allow player one to see frames one and three whilst player two would see frames two and four. Current technology requires a display with a 120 Hz refresh rate so it seems likely that we'll have to wait for 240Hz screen technology to become commonplace before two-player 3D becomes a reality. PDF versions of the two applications are available."

the grass gets trampled

[ciaran_o_riordan]

I'm working now on gathering software patent info related to Sony.

* http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Sony [swpat.org]

Help welcome.

Re:Read it as "The consumer WILL buy into 3D"...

[esme]

No -- 3D is just a less mature technology, and like sound and movies before them, it'll go through a fad phase before the novelty wears off and somebody gets around to using it to make art.

Re:"Twice As Dark TV" technology

[mcgrew]

I worked at a drive-in theater when I was a teenager. The projectors there and presumably all drive-ins used arc lamps. [wikipedia.org] The lamp's rod was adjusted every reel or two, and replaced when they became too short.

Re:Spectators

[fbjon]

Nope, active. When I went to see Avatar, I checked out the glasses: they had a small sensor at the front. Covering it with a finger while watching 3D made the image look the same as without glasses.