MasterImage touts 4.3-, 7- and 10-inch glasses-free 3D displays, interest from ‘first tier’ device makers

MasterImage and its parallax barrier 3D technology were around for some time . Though nothing major — excepting the Hitachi H001 in Japan — has ever come of this company’s efforts, it’s back at Computex this year with a trio of reference display, showing off glasses-free 3D at 4.3-inch, 7-inch and 10-inch form factors. Resolution on both the 7- and four.3-inch panels is 800 x 480 at the present, but there is a 1280 x 800 7-incher within the works that may be ready for production by the top of this year. The parallax barrier bearing in mind the autostereoscopic effect to happen adds only 1mm to the screen’s thickness, though it does halve vertical resolution — meaning an 800 x 480 screen will only show a 400 x 480 image when flipped to 3D mode. MasterImage builds the LCDs and controllers in these 3D imagers and is currently in discussions with what we’re told are “first tier” manufacturers of both smartphones and tablets. You’ll find the 7-inch display on video after the break — we found it in a position to match the 3D effect produced by displays requiring glasses, that is an outstanding thing in relative terms, but as you notice above, the 2 frames can and do get split up in case you are not perfectly positioned to take in the third dimension.

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