For all the 3-D aficionados out there, there’s both good and bad news. Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corp showed off its liquid crystal screens today for mobile devices. Its 3-D displays offer bright, clear images without the need for those annoying glasses generally required for such technology. And the bad news: They only work on a 7.5 cm (3″) screen held 30 cm (12″) from the user’s face.

These LCD screens for mobile handsets showed 3-D animation, touch-panel screens that swivelled from one 3-D photo to another and a display wired to a 3-D video camera.

Movies and TVs in 3-D no longer raise eyebrows, with giants like Sony, Pansonic as well as Samsung and LG Electronics gearing up to sell 3-D TVs.

The hitch was the need for special glasses, which show different images to the right and left eyes. Sharp’s 3-D technology has solved the problem as the displays are designed to show different images to each eye. Yoshisuke Hasegawa, executive managing officer, Sharp Corp, said the technology may be applied to TVs in the future, reports Yahoo! News. But he said it works more efficiently if the distance between the viewer and the screen is fixed.

Sharp has made this technology for mobile devices such as cell phones and digital cameras.

Source: www.efytimes.com