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[elakdawalla]

Some discussion started in the "Curiosity Image Retrieval Tools" thread about technology for viewing 3D images that goes beyond crossed-eye stereo and red-blue glasses. I'm interested in taking the plunge into an actual 3D display. Any of you guys have experience/advice to offer? If I can collect some comments and reviews I'll write up a blog post about it. If you mention a product please also provide a link to it within your post. List price would be very helpful too.

I have no experience with 3D displays but I LOVE my Fujifilm 3D camera. While its image quality and speed are not as good as my Canon Sureshot, having 3D photos and movies of my children is awesome. List price is $600 but Amazon is currently offering it for about $250.

[Ondaweb]

Interesting. I came here because I have a Panasonic Viera 3d TV. I've watched many 3d movies on it and played a couple of 3d PS3 games on it. I very much enjoy the 3d display. It adds a lot of realism to good 3d media. The reason I came to this thread is because I was hoping there was a way that the 3d images posted here could be "intercepted" some point in the process of making an anaglyph and "diverted" to another stream that would produce 3d images for display on my and other tv's rather than just the red/blue anaglyphs. I'm hoping we could find a way to take a stereo pair developed by one of the wizards here and figure out a way to convert it. One thought I have is that since I have an AppleTV and airplay, I can display whatever is on my computer on my TV. If there was someway to display two images side by side (or one above the other) there might be a way to get the tv to display them as 3d (since those are operating modes by which the TV displays 3d content.) I'd be interesting in working on this project if someone knows enough to suggest a method.

[mcaplinger]

I'd be interesting in working on this project if someone knows enough to suggest a method.

Stereo Photo Maker ( http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/ ) can save a stereo pair out in MPO format, which is a Fuji format for putting two views in a single image file. LG 3D televisions can display these files in 3D directly by just putting them on a USB drive and plugging them into the TV. I'm not sure if the Panasonic supports this format but it would be worth looking into.