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Toshiba is bringing recent advances in their glasses-free 3D TV’s to the Laptop space with their new Qosmio F750 laptop, going on sale next month for around 1300 €.

It will feature a 120Hz, 15.6-inch screen that uses “a lenticular lens sheet to send different images to the left and right eyes.” The effect is said to vary, depending on how close you are to the screen, but is said to have a more pronounced effect than the Nintendo 3DS for example. If you’re wondering why that sounds familiar, it’s because Toshiba has already used that very same technology in their glasses-free 3D TV – the Regza GL1.

Also packing an Intel Core i&, GeForce 540M, and Blue-ray XL Drive, it could make a nice little 3D BluRay viewing system.  That is, if the effect doesn’t suffer from some of the common problems of lenticular lens (viewing angle dependence).  Toshiba is overcoming some of these shortcomings with a cleverly integrated HD webcam that incorporates eye-tracking to adjust for the viewer’s angle.

Only time will tell if it’s going to work…

via Toshiba unveils Qosmio F750 3D, first glasses-free 3D laptop | Ubergizmo.

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In what sounds like a pretty interesting use of 3D, RealD and the London Opera House have teamed up with Toshiba to package 3D BluRay releases of ‘Carmen in 3D’ with select TV’s, PC’s, and BluRay players.  Currently only viewable in RealD Theaters, the Play format is ideally suited for 3D work due to it’s fixed working area and limited range of motion.

A co-production of RealD and London’s Royal Opera House, CARMEN IN 3D gives viewers the best seat in the house, taking them on a magic carpet ride into the heart of the production – immersing them into this exciting story of love, jealousy and betrayal.

CARMEN IN 3D is a dazzling film, filled with some of the best-loved music ever written – and performed by a world-class cast. With English subtitles throughout, it is the perfect event for life-long opera fans and first-timers alike! Available exclusively in RealD theaters beginning in March 2011.

RealD, Toshiba Run ‘Carmen In 3D’ Promos – 2011-02-11 18:23:01 | TWICE.

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Last week, Toshiba released what they call the ‘World’s First glasses-free 3D TV’.  Ignoring the fact that Alioscopy and others have had this for several years, it’s an interesting offering in that it comes from a “mainstream” provider with the pockets to push it to a wider audience.  Unfortunately, the $1,400 price tag only gets you a 12-inch screen.  Yes, that’s 12-inch.

With a 20-inch model on the way, they’re trying to generate some buzz in hopes of boosting sales.  However, they’re (rightfully) hesitant about the technology.

But Sato was cautious about whether the 3D market as a whole would see strong demand despite the fact that equipped TV sets usually attract a lot of interest at retail stores as consumers try out the devices.
“It’s questionable that consumers want 3D TVs as much as manufacturers are pushing them.”
“People may not be finding the extra value” that convinces them to purchase the relatively new technology, he said.

‘World’s first’ glasses-free 3D TV hits stores in Japan.

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Toshiba has announced two new TVs that do not require glasses in order to see the 3-D effect. The first TV is a 20 inch model. This version has a resolution of 1,280×720, and is LED backlit. What makes it interesting is that it comes with a CELL engine, similar to what you might find in a Playstation3. This model also comes with an HDMI interface, a USB port, and LAN.

The second TV is a smaller 12 inch model. This version has a resolution of 466×350, and is LED backlit. It does not come with a CELL engine. This model also comes with an HDMI interface, a USB port, and an SD card slot. The SD card slot will allow you to for view JPEGs and AVCHD movies.

At Ceatec , Toshiba is also showing off a 56-inch model of the television. However, this model is just a prototype. Unfortunately there are no plans to make this into an actual product.

But what about the 3D effect? Toshiba promises that buyers will be able to view 3D images in high quality and without glasses – provided they look at the screen in one of nine distinct viewing angles (more technical background can be found here). The company’s recommended viewing distance is 90cm in the case of the 20-inch model and 65cm in the case of the smaller one.

You can view a video of it after the break.

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Toshiba Mobile Display announced today that they have developed a 21-inch autostereoscopic high-definition display. This means that the display does not need any type of glasses for the viewer to see in 3-D. Most of the time, a person needs a left eye and a right eye image in able to see in 3-D. However, Toshiba accomplishes it in a different way. They accomplish by using an imaging system with a 9-parallax design. That means that this new display creates image data viewed from nine directions. The high-definition display itself has a resolution of 1280 x 800, while the viewing angle of the display is ±15 degrees in the horizontal. From the company’s press release:

The integral imaging system offers a significant reduction in eye fatigue during long periods of viewing, and features a multi-parallax[1] design that enables motion parallax, which cannot be achieved by systems using glasses. The multi-parallax approach results in images that change depending on the viewer’s position. In addition, the viewing angle is wide, and the resulting stereoscopic image is natural and smooth.

via Toshiba Mobile Display.

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More 3D TV’s from CES, this time from Toshiba. They’ve partnered with RealD to create a new line of televisions called “Regza”, which will bring HD 3D LCD’s to us in 2010.  It is still, however, active stereo, unlike the passive polarized stereo RealD uses in theaters.

The RealD Format is a proprietary version of a side-by-side 3D format that multiplexes a left eye and right eye 3D image stream into a single channel for delivery of HD 3D content to any 3D-enabled display type – plasma, LCD or DLP. The RealD Format uses a unique set of proprietary filters and other technologies making it compatible with today’s HD infrastructure for high quality 3D delivered via cable, satellite, packaged media or the internet.

via Toshiba announces partnership with RealD for 3D teevees — Engadget.

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Toshiba has announced two major released in the Voxar 3D product line.  Voxar 3D 6.3.2 and Voxar 3D 6.3.2 ActiveX work with PACS systems (Picture Archiving and Communication System) to integrate and embed advanced visualizations directly into the tools.

For ten years, Voxar 3D products have been designed by a dedicated team of clinical experts. The resulting advanced visualization provides PACS customers with more productivity and greater insight, making PACS simply more competitive. “Our mature and robust technology opens up more sales opportunities, addresses the needs of a wider range of clinical specialties, and increases customer retention and loyalty,” continued Cunningham.

via Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Has Announced Two Major Releases in Its Voxar 3D Advanced Visualization Product Line.

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Yesterday in Tokyo, Leadtek demonstrated their new “Image Processing Box”, an external device using Toshiba’s SpurEngine chip to accelerate video encoding the decoding.

Leadtek’s image and video processing box is based on Leadtek’s WinFast PxVC1100 card that sports Toshiba SpursEngine SE1000 chip and is equipped with 128MB of XDR DRAM memory, but connects to a notebook using ExpressCard interface. Since the original card for desktops is designed for PCI Express x1/x4 slots, the external SpursEngine box will hardly starve from the lack of bandwidth. The external stream processing box weighs 700 grams and is 45mm x 194mm x 90mm (width x depth x height).

The device can encode or decode up to four 1080P streams simultaneously in either MPEG-2 or H.264.  Given that the SpurEngine chipset is already in Toshiba laptops, and few applications support the devices, it’s almost certainly aimed at software developers.

via Leadtek to Unveil “Image Processing Box” – X-bit labs.

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