3D Contact Lenses – Are They Coming?
According to Oliver Pasch, Sony’s Head of Digital Cinema Europe, 3D contact lenses are in the product development pipeline. This was said during a discussion with Patrick Schappert from a German web portal called Grobi.tv. No other details were released.
Based on the little information that was disclosed, we can make a few assumptions about this technology. For one, it would have to be a passive form of 3D technology. Active technology requires additional electronics to dissect the images. These extra electronics would not fit on a contact.
There are currently two forms of passive 3D technology being used in today’s 3D glasses. Linearly polarized glasses and circularly polarized glasses. Linearly polarized glasses usually have one side processing horizontal images and the other side processing vertical images. This technology does not allow you to tilt your head, because the images will bleed together. Circularly polarized glasses process images that are superimposed on to the screen using circular polarizing filters. Because the filters are circularly polarized, the viewer can tilt their head either way. We can make an educated guess that the contact lenses will be using circularly polarized technology. Contact lenses can rotate within a persons eye based on its shape.
If these contact lenses do come out, they won’t work with the current lines of 3D televisions. The current models require active 3D glasses that have electronics behind them.
I believe the best use for these would be for computer monitors at work. Many people at work spend hours in front of a monitor and 3D glasses may be uncomfortable wearing them for 8 hours at a time. 3D contact lenses would be the perfect accessory for a work station that would allow you to do work in 3D.
This will be the actual future of 3D. The reason is that polorized contacts would work perfectly with current passive 3D movie theaters.
It would also be more confortable than current 3D glasses which affect a persons focus area and create nausia.
3D contacts can be put on before traveling to a theater and then kept on until returning home. No need to remove them since it would not impact visibility.
For the same reason they would be good for home 3D TVs as well since a person can move freely around the home while watching 3D TV without concern for the glasses getting in the way.
Folks with prescriptions would need to wear normal glasses instead of contacts since they would need the poloarized contacts to see a 3D movie. This works for everyone!
Prescription folks can also get polorized contacts created and wear them all the time without concern.
[...] 01, 2011 0 Comments 3D admin According to 3DTVblog, Sony has been working on 3D contact lenses since February of last year. While little is known [...]
those r some cool contacts
It’s important to note that contact lenses of any variety are only legally available with a doctor’s prescription in the USA. As such, I don’t see this being quite as ubiquitous as you may think. I also worry about people improperly sharing these contacts with others who do not understand how to care for them or their eyes properly, but we’ll see.