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."

heh..

[AEton]

From the details on Sharp's website:

Includes 3 free Electronic ArtsTM games to showcase the capabilities of the RD3D! Test your cool with James Bond 007: Nightfire, hit the road with Need for SpeedTM Hot Pursuit 2 or putt for dough in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR(R) 2003. All 3 are yours when you order the new RD3D for a limited time.

Yeah, because there's a huge audience of 3D golf afficiandos with $3300 spare. (On the other hand, the integrated hybrid DVD-writer is pretty. It'd be neat if they had software for partial 3D rendering of DVD movies.

So, uh, any guesses on how many years before this technology hits the $500 price point?

I'm a 3d freak...

[GillBates0]

and proud of it.

After the last time /. published the story about the 3d laptop, I was engulfed by this urge to try out anaglyph (red-blue) games/software on my machine. What ensued was a frenzy of activity spanning about a week:

1. I purchased a 3-d jigsaw puzzle from Wal-mart for $15, which came with red-blue glasses. (A wiser idea would've been to go see SpyKids 3d for $6 and save the glasses (which I did later anyway)).

2. I downloaded and installed Anaglyph Stereo Quake [iprimus.com.au] and had hours of headachy fun.

3. Downloaded some simple shooter/roller coaster type games from stereo3d.com [stereo3d.com] This site, btw, has a cool chart listing software for which 3d patches have been released, graphics cards supported etc. A really interesting quote about 3d API's:

"The reason why 3D-API's are important for 3D-glasses is the fact games written for these interfaces supply genuine 3D-information in a standard format. These 3D-informations (i.e. depth-informations, Z-values) can be utilized by special universal 3D-glasses-drivers to create real 3D-imagery."

Can't wait for the prices for 3d displays to come down.

Re:What sort of visual range does this thing have?

[Java Pimp]

We experimented with a similar display from Dimension Technologies, Inc. [dti3d.com]. Here's how it works [dti3d.com] if you are interested.

It's pretty cool but you don't have much room to move around and we'd get headaches after about half an hour of using it.