Toshiba’s latest use for OCB LCDs: 3D glasses

Even after years of demos, we’re not aware of Toshiba Mobile Display’s OCB (Optically Compensated Bend) LCD panels actually making their way into shipping products, so here’s hoping these large-bezeled 3D glasses on display at SID 2010 will be the ones to break through. Sure, the last time we saw OCB it was supposed to show us the way towards no-glasses-needed autostereoscopic screens but that was in 2009, when Law & Order was on, prototype iPhones weren’t floating all over Korea and the company was called Toshiba Matsushita display. In this iteration the high speed, high contrast characteristics of the curiously aligned crystals in those LCDs are claimed to make the ideal 3D glasses technology with brighter images, less crosstalk and a wider field of view, but with similar specifications to existing hardware from RealD and others we’ll probably be in for another all new / all old tech demo and more vapor in 2011.

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