Sharp to Sell 3D laptop for $3299

prostoalex writes "The laptop that allows the user to view the 3D images without the special glasses is finally being sold by Sharp. The price tag is $3299. Actius 3DRD runs Pentium 4 2.8 GHz with 512 MB DDR SDRAM and is also capable of displaying two images in parallax."

Battery Life

[pardasaniman]

Heh... you just shelled out a load of cash to realize:
The battery life is only 1.3 hours.

Shoulda RTFA before you bought the laptop

1.3hr battery, 10.2 pounds

[pmz]

You know, a 10 pound laptop brings new meaning to "drag and drop".

How does this work?

[venicebeach]

Does anyone understand how this technology works? "Without special glasses" - Do you need to cross your eyes the whole time you are working on the computer?

Re:What OS does it run?

[TexVex]

Hmm! Maybe they should click here to see how cool LindowsOS is! [lindows.com]

I'm seriously, guys. Click the link. It doesn't just go to the Lindows site. It goes to a part of the site that will make you wonder exactly what the Lindows folks are smoking.

Re:How does this work?

[Anonymous Coward]

In soviet russia the laptop crosses your eyes for you!

Finally!

[tkrotchko]

Now we don't have to listen to people complain that Apple's prices are too high.

We tried something like that at SEGA

[Samir Gupta]

At my last job at SEGA, my lab was in charge of coming up with many different and pioneering ideas for new ways to play video games, many of which, for one reason or another, never made it to market.

One of those was HOLO-GENESIS. It was a 3-D laser
holographic projection device for the MegaDrive/geneis. It could have displayed 3-D rendered images, in full-color, in real-time, using a system of 3 red/green/blue lasers, and a finely-meshed micro-faceted surface which gave a pseudo 3-D effect based on carefully utilized light diffraction effects, a la printed holograms.

It was slated to come out in mid-1995, but at the time, we couldn't get a acceptable frame rate (3-D graphics accelerator hardware was still very primitive and expensive, the province of SGI workstations and arcade machines), so we decided to not commercialize it at the time.

In any case, I must say, this is a very interesting announcement, and I must congratulate Sharp for bringing such technology to the market. Hopefully they can continue to lower the price point and make it adopted wider.

Re:What OS does it run?

[NivenHuH]

Duh.. We know what they're smoking.. a big fat LindowsRock..