Sony planning 3D TVs, 3D-ready PS3 games by end of 2010
Read this post a year or so from now, and the words might just LEAP OUT AT YOU. That’s because Sony has announced plans to ship 3D televisions, laptops, and Blu-ray players by the end of 2010. 3D films in cinemas have taken off in the last twelve months, while British Sky Broadcasting has already pledged to introduce a 3D satellite channel in the UK during 2010. Pretty soon, the same tech will be entering homes.
Not only that, but plans are afoot in Sony Towers for PlayStation 3 software that is compatible with the new tech – in other words, real, actual 3D games.
With a standard format for 3D technology still up in the air, Sony is banking on “active shutter” technology. This uses electronic glasses with tiny shutters that alternately darken over one eye, and then the other, in synchronization with the refresh rate of the screen, while the display switches between different perspectives for each eye. Crazy stuff.
There’s nothing like a date for all of this lovely new tech yet, let alone a price, but expect a 3D TV to cost you the equivalent of … quite a few LCD screens. LittleBigPlanet 3D will be worth it, I suspect.
