14 DAY TRIAL // Even though so-called glasses-free 3D screens have been plagued by the fact that users had to keep their heads positioned within a certain angle of the panels, but Toshiba claims to have overcome this limitation with its two latest 3D TVs.
Watching movies or anything else in 3D without the need for 3D glasses has been a so-called dream of many consumers for an arguably long time.
Of course, attempts to achieve this have been made in the past, some even coming close to realizing that overall goal.
Nevertheless, they had the issue that the user's head had to be positioned within a specific set of angles in order to receive the two sets of images properly.
Now, Toshiba claims that its 3D REGZA GLI series is not affected by this unfortunate limitation, though they do have another so-called disadvantage.
What this means is that the two screens showcased at CEATEC in Japan are considerably smaller than the 40-inch or larger TVs on the market.
One of them has a diagonal of 12 inches, whereas the other one measures a more 'reasonable' 20 inches.
Both of them boast LED-backlit LCD (liquid crystal display) panels and a special 3D technology that creates nine different parallaxes of each single 2D frame, which the brain superimposes on its own.
This announcement comes some time after Nintendo announced that it would be launching a small, portable 3D gaming device that, likewise, requires no glasses (3DS).
This product will be released in Japan early next year, in February to be exact, while Sharp also provided, earlier this year, a small such solution for mobile phones.
Toshiba hopes to start selling its own, larger displays earlier. In fact, the company hopes to bring them out even before Christmas, no doubt in order to take advantage of the shopping sprees that always occur during the holiday season.