LG Launches World’s First ‘No-glasses’ Cinema 3D Monitor

LG announced the world’s first glasses-free Cinema 3D monitor in Korea yesterday. For KRW1.29m or £765, the 20-inch DX 2000 monitor offers solution to one of the major problems in 3D TVs.

Conventional glasses-free 3D displays use Parallax Barrier system, in which a fresnel-like filter in front ensures that each eyes sees different pixels. However, slight head movements or change in viewing positions can cause the image to collapse in 2D or become blur. That said, LG’s Naked Eye 3D technology uses a webcam-style device which is built into the device to track eye position. Thus, it guarantees that correct images are sent to each eye.

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