SeeReal has announced their Simultaneous 2D and 3D: an Optical Quantum Leap for the Flat Display Industry:

SeeReal Technologies (www.seereal.com) today announced the next generation of 3D enabling display technologies. SeeReal has developed a new display capable of delivering both 2D and 3D pictures to several viewers simultaneously. SeeReal’s cutting-edge technology transforms a desktop display to a “window on the world,” showing 3D images either stand-alone, or embedded within 2D content such as web pages. The technology compromises neither resolution nor viewer mobility. The need for 3D visualization is rapidly increasing, the gaming industry being a primary driver. But the technology also has the potential to save substantial time and resources for all activities relying on visualization processes either for design or analytical purposes. Until now, however, other 3D display technologies exhibited either very little effective resolution or allowed almost no viewer mobility in front of the screen. Consequently, they were all met with limited industry acceptance. SeeReal CEO Lars Povelsen says, “From the onset of our development effort, we recognized these serious limitations of other 3D technologies. SeeReal has now overcome these obstacles to wider adoption in the marketplace, and we believe our new, integrated 2D/3D multiviewer technology is the first of its kind to meet the demands of the consumer market.”

The wider range of movement that allows for more viewers is a very good thing to see in an autostereoscopic display of this type.

If it is as good as they say, then we can expect other manufacturers to follow suit sooner rather than later as previously assumed. As the 3D push gets running full steam, we can see a number of products coming out in computing, gaming, and media that will eventually work off one another to create a fully interactive stereoscopic media experience.

Good stuff.