metaverse. metaverse. metaverse.
Half of the companies attending this year’s CES seem to be obsessed with the buzzword Metaverse. Virtual reality was also all the rage at his CES this year, along with the Metaverse. There have been countless prototypes of wearables that can be worn on the face and immersed in virtual worlds to see, feel, and even smell cyber environments.
While the Metaverse was presented at CES as the next big thing in tech, yet another virtual reality tech at the show looked like a truly revolutionary immersive 3D tech: a glasses-free 3D monitor and TV.
That’s right, 3D screen No 3D glasses are required, but the visuals looked incredible. In fact, it’s clear that glasses-free 3D monitors and TVs need to succeed for the Metaverse and VR to actually become a common technology in everyday use, as many companies would like to see. was.
Breylon headset-free 3D display. The Breylon Fusion debuted at his CES and can be seen in the background.
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Blelion is one of the companies we met at CES in this space. His Breylon, a spin-off of MIT, created a headset-free virtual display and showed off a prototype of his new VR screen at the event. The prototype has a rounded shape like his VR headset, but you don’t actually wear it. It’s too big to do that anyway. This is his full-on 8K OLED panoramic desktop monitor. The company calls it Brelyon Fusion and claims it has the world’s largest field of view for an OLED display. I certainly felt that way when I stood in front of the monitor.
Is Braylon Fusion Really Good?
The visuals in Braylon Fusion were great. The image was sharp and the colors were rich. It looked unlike any 3D visual I’ve ever seen. Normally, when you watch a 3D movie that requires glasses, it doesn’t look as sharp visually as it does in 2D. Another problem is that I often have to remove my glasses when my eyes start to get tired. I didn’t experience any of that while watching his 3D screen without these glasses.
Breylon also had other equally impressive monitors. One of those products was basically layering visuals on top of each other to create the most realistic 3D visuals I’ve ever seen. The best way to explain this is to imagine the visuals of Tony Stark’s display in the Marvel movies when he puts on the helmet of Iron Man’s headset. Now imagine being able to layer these overlays on top of other background visuals. However, you don’t have to wear helmets, glasses, etc. at all.
Breylon’s products are not yet available to consumers and are currently priced in the five digits. But another headset-free 3D monitor 3D game market It says it will release a consumer monitor called . 3DGMin the coming months, the price will drop below $2,000.
3DGM glassesless 3D monitor from 3D Gaming Market.
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3DGM is a 32″ 4K glasses-free 3D desktop monitor that doesn’t even require you to stand directly in front of the screen. According to 3D Game Market, the monitor is equipped with AI eye-tracking technology to optimize the 3D visuals and match where you are standing. And it looked really good.
(The point here is that the way 3D display technology works without glasses makes it nearly impossible to capture with a camera. So, dear readers, unfortunately, you can’t experience 3D visuals in your display pictures. You can’t, hopefully you’ll get the chance to experience it yourself soon!)
What is the difference between 3DGM and Breylon 3D displays?
One difference between 3DGM and Breylon model devices is that 3DGM resembles the traditional type of 3D you experience in a 3D cinema. The visuals weren’t as crisp as Braylon’s screen. Looking at Braylon’s monitor, it felt like the 3D images were getting deeper and deeper. into the screen. Sometimes I lost track of how close I got to a real Braylon monitor.However, the 3DGM felt like the image was popping straight out out Move away from the screen and come towards us.
This is not a 3DGM knock. Clearly, companies are using different methods to create glasses-free 3D TVs. Breylon’s version may have a little more wow factor, but unlike Breylon, if 3DGM’s current plans come to fruition, the company will soon be launching a monitor at a price consumers can actually afford. .
And it’s not just new companies working on glasses-free 3D.while i wasn’t looking our friends PC magazine It also reports on new Asus gaming laptops with built-in headset-free 3D monitors.
It’s easy to see why VR and the Metaverse haven’t caught on in the way many companies hoped they would. Facebook’s parent company, Meta, lost billions It’s focused on virtual reality platforms — and it’s basically the company that started this whole current metaverse trend. It is difficult to imagine someone who is Imagine that instead of wearing bulky headgear, users could sit down in front of a monitor and enter a virtual reality metaverse just like they would surf the rest of the internet.
While in Las Vegas for CES, I came across a storefront that clarified the whole issue. Right on the Las Vegas Strip, there was a business selling virtual reality experiences to tourists. Marketing visuals showed cartoon images of people wearing headsets, similar to Meta’s Quest 2 VR headset.
Even in 2023, virtual reality is still very gimmicky. If companies want to take immersive virtual worlds beyond just tourist attractions, their success will depend on the pervasiveness of 3D displays. Until then, the Metaverse is stuck with headsets. not too many I want to wear.
