Dolby’s Glasses-Free 3D May Be Worth Waiting For
Dolby’s technology, which it’s working on in collaboration with Philips, delivers the first glasses-free 3D I’ve seen which isn’t dreadful. Actually, it’s much better than I thought TV-sized no-glasses 3D could be — crisp and blur-free at any viewing angle. The depth of field is fairly shallow, but that’s almost a virtue: It leads to a subtle 3D effect that doesn’t feel too gimmicky. And I say all this despite the fact that I’m on record as not really liking 3D TV.
So is Vizio’s pleasing glasses-free 3D the same thing as Vizio’s pleasing glasses-free 3D? Yes and no. I spoke with Dolby’s Roland Vlaicu, who explained to me that Vizio’s 3D TV does incorporate Dolby technology. But Dolby thinks that its technology will benefit from a better 4K, 3D-capable display panel than Vizio used — so Vizio’s prototype isn’t an official Dolby 3D TV, like the hand-built one I saw in San Francisco.
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