“Future 3D technology will have more advanced displays, which will enable different views,” he says. “The simpler versions of this technology will still just offer the two views we have today – left and right – without the need for glasses. But in the future, there will be many views next to each other, so you will simply move your head to the left or the right to give you a stereo impression of an object.”

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/15/mpeg-drafts-twice-as-efficient-h-265-video-standard/

Back in mid-May, I noted that the display industry was experiencing an increasingly dire fiscal crisis due to underwhelming demand and plummeting pricing

3-D displays, either glasses-inclusive or glasses-free (i.e. stereoscopy), are another possible savior, which is why I devoted an April 2010 cover story to them. At the January 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, on the heels of the massive success of the movie Avatar, 3-D TVs were hyped like crazy by manufacturers drunk on self-fulfilling prophecies. And in the portable gaming space, Nintendo rolled out the parallax barrier display-based 3DS in early 2011. But neither product category has to date been a notable success.

As a recent Slashdot topic showcase entitled “Has the 3-D Hype Bubble Finally Popped?”, and referencing a write-up in Time Magazine, notes:

Revenue from 3-D films is also dropping, and while 3-D television sales are rising, only 14 percent of potential buyers think 3-D is a ‘must have’ feature.

There are seven types of display decoder technologies that deliver stereographic 3-D

it’s quite a reach for manufacturers to expect you to lock into a proprietary implementation. Even if the underlying technology is generic, such as passive polarization or active shutter, plenty of implementation customization opportunities exist to ensure that a set of glasses designed for one display won’t be usable on another one, either from a different supplier or even the same manufacturer.

Glasses-free stereoscopic display technology remains immature, even in small-dimension implementations such as the Nintendo 3DS, far from large-screen alternatives.

Computer animation-derived film material (such as recent Pixar films) is inherently more 3-D rendering-friendly than camera-captured content, and such titles have done comparatively well on average. Similarly, gaming content is inherently 3-D capable

he glasses that work with your Sony television, for instance, won’t work for watching Monday night football at a friend’s place on his Panasonic 3-D TV.

Blame the proprietary communication protocols that TV makers use to synchronize the glasses and TV sets. The result is that 3-D glasses are engineered so they will work only with the brand of TV with which they’re shipped.

Consumer Electronics Association, an industry group, is finalizing standards for the emitters on 3-D TVs so all sets can use a common signal protocol. The hope is that it will lead to a standardization of the technology on the 3-D glasses and make the glasses interchangeable.

Hong Kong filmmakers claim ’3D Sex and Zen’ to be first 3D porn film
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/08/10/2010-08-10_porno_in_3d.html#ixzz0wrfXmWuW

Panasonic’s magic trick is pretty simple. In essence, the HDC-SDT750 is a 2D camcorder but its 3D capability comes courtesy of a conversion lens. It allows anyone to create 3D images by attaching the conversion lens that comes with the camcorder.

Source:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1725239/panasonic-announces-3d-camcorder

Nintendo announced its new 3DS handheld to deliver 3D games without the geeky glasses required to watch 3D movies and television.

It is compatible with the Nintendo DSi and has two cameras on the outside of the case. You can thus take photos and videos in three dimensions.

“It’s a mass-market device that can let you try and take 3D pictures,” said Satoru Iwata, (pictured), chief executive of Nintendo.

Recycled 3-D Glasses at Movie Theaters Are Crawling With Germs
http://www.switched.com/2010/06/13/recycled-3-d-glasses-at-movie-theaters-are-crawling-with-germs/