Sharp demonstrated liquid crystal 3D screens Friday for mobile devices. They only work on a 3-inch screen held one foot from the viewer’s face. The touch-panel screens switched from one 3-D photo to another and connected to a 3-D video camera.
Sony and Panasonic of Japan, as well as South Korea’s Samsung and LG Electronics, are already planning 3-D TVs, but they need for special glasses.
Sharp’s 3-D technology doesn’t require them because the displays are designed to be viewed at a static distance. The smaller displays can be used on cell phones, game machines and digital cameras.
Photos on the touch screen were less clear and even a bit blurry from certain angles, reports the AP, though Sharp said its latest technology does away with such “ghosting” effects.
The technology could show up in the next Nintend DSi portable game machine, which will be 3-D.
