The following article appeared today on the AfterDawn.com website. In a few years, maybe more, we will be able to build a "3D" type projector.

"Philips shows off commercial 22-inch 3D display


Philips shows off commercial 22-inch 3D display Philips has announced that it will be showing off a new 22-inch 3D display at the upcoming InfoComm 2008 event on June 18th.

The display is based on a WSXGA (1680x1050) LCD panel and will use Philips' WOWvx technology "to provide 3D-like images without requiring users to wear special viewing glasses." Technically, WOWvx uses Philips' internal 2D-plus-Depth (the 2D image and its depth map) format "and combines it with the Declipse format developed especially for autostereoscopic 3D displays such as this one. Declipse provides additional "background" information for a more realistic 3D effect."

The company says the display can be used commercially in digital signs used for advertising, retail and gaming applications at casinos. Other specifications include a standard 16:10 aspect ratio, 300cd/m2 brightness, a 1,000:1 contrast ratio and relatively fast 5 ms response time.

The display will go on sale during the Q4 2008, although there was no word on pricing."

these will not work in projectors. These rely promptly on the fact that we have 2 eyes that aren't centered. It's like those cheap images you see on image if you hold the card one way, and you see another image if you move or rotate the card.

The Lcd is really 2 lcd's in 1. So that 1 eye sees one image and the other eye sees the other image. Another problem with this is the fx only works if your looking directly at the screen and not if your looking at a high angle say 45degrees or more.

Using this panel in a projector will eliminate the optics that let one eye see one image and the other eye see another. So no a 3d projector will not happen anytime soon.