Our Technology

Background

In real life, depth is perceived due to a variety of cues. Many of these are monocular ("one-eye"), such as perspective, occlusion, texture gradient, and lighting. These are used in 2D rendering of 3D images, a 2D display technology popularly advertised as "3D".

Far more compelling are what are known as binocular ("two-eye") cues, especially binocular disparity. Because the eyes are horizontally separated from one another, each eye sees a slightly different two-dimensional image, which is integrated in the brain into a single three-dimensional image. This process is called stereopsis.

A true 3D display must mimic nature by delivering a separate image to each eye. Such displays produce images that appear to be suspended in front of the screen (or inside it).

3ality Technology

At 3ality, we are developing hardware for stereo 3D viewing without glasses (autostereoscopic technology). We have developed and patented dozens of innovations for 3D viewing. Our initial prototypes were implementations of an autostereoscopic display for CRTs.

We have now advanced to an innovative, full-time, full-resolution flat panel 3D display. This display can provide the highest quality stereoscopic imaging possible, either using passive polarizing glasses for multiple users or a dynamic, glasses-less version for a single user.

Bear in mind that these pages are simply an overview to describe the capabilities of our systems. Please contact us for details of our methods.