Toshiba’s just outed the world’s first glasses-free 3D laptop, the Qosmio F750 3D. The 15.6-incher uses the same tech as the company’s glasses-free 3D, the REGZA GL1, so a lenticular screen sends images with different perspectives to each eye, which your brain reads as a 3D image.
All very impressive, but we’ve got some reservations. Read on to see why we’re not quite reaching for the popcorn just yet.
Yesterday we asked you, Electricpig readers, whether 3D glasses were a hindrance, and if glasses free 3D made it to market in the way 3D TV has done, whether it would convince you to take it up. 55% of you said that if you didn’t have to wear the glasses you’d happily pick up 3D TV. However, 27% were not convinced by 3D full stop, and said that 3D was just the next gimmick being pushed by TV manufacturers to make you think you need a new telly, and it made no difference if its came with glasses or not. 14% of you said that you would wait and see if it gave you eye fatigue, and commenters raised issues about the lack of 3D content to play on 3D TVs, the fact that many of us can’t see it due to poor eyesight, and some said it should stay in the cinema.
At IFA last year we couldn’t move for 3D TV with glasses. Then a couple of months down the line at CES, there’s the emergence of glasses free 3D, and we’re now waiting on tomorrow for the first glasses free 3D product to make it to market, the Nintendo 3DS. But is it just the glasses that are holding you back from getting yourself a 3D TV for the living room, or is it something more fundamental than that? Click and tell!
We’ve hankered after the Toshiba glasses-free 3D TV ever since it was teased yesterday. Now, we’ve clapped eyes on it. How does it stack up against its glasses-packing rivals? Read on, and we’ll tell you.
