Sony Adds Glasses-Free 3D to Notebooks with Lenticular Sheet

Sony has been one of the biggest supporters of 3D and has featured the technology in every one of the company’s vast product lines. The notebook line is no different, and Sony already provides a 3D VAIO with the F series but that price point ($1,899) is set above what many may want to pay for a laptop. To be fair, with a Intel i7 3.30GHz processor, 16″ Full HD 2D/3D display, 6GB RAM, 640GB (7200rpm) HDD, Blu-ray player, NVIDIA graphics (1GB VRAM) with HDMI out, that laptop would have been expensive without 3D. Enter the new lenticular sheet from Sony, designed to accommodate the VAIO VPC-SE1Z9E (S series) which has the users attaching the lenticular sheet in front of the S Series 15.5-inch LCD screen. With the screen in place, a 3D image is then formed on your non-3D LCD display.

 

The naked-eye 3D display is realized based on the lenticular method, which creates parallax by arraying lenses that are thin and long and have a semicircular cross section.

 

The sheet itself is also accompanied by a software which will utilize your notebook’s webcam to track your head movement and adjust the 3D effects accordingly. This 129 euro (approx US$183) is expected to be available next month and will again break down the 3D entry price point by a wide margin. After the jump, a picture of the lenticular sheet.

[Via Tech-On]