Samsung tries glasses-free 3D again with new gaming monitors

From PC World: Samsung is showing some impressive gaming monitors at this year’s Gamescom trade show in Germany. There are new OLEDs in 34-inch and 49-inch models, and the big one is coming in a flavor that doesn’t have all the smart TV features that PC users really don’t need.

But the show-stealer is definitely the Odyssey 3D, which attempts to provide 3D video and gaming without needing 3D glasses.

This is hardly the first time we’ve seen this. After the glut of glasses-based 3D televisions more than a decade ago, the Nintendo 3DS handheld gave us the best-known implementation of lenticular screen technology, which uses slightly offset images to simulate depth.

View: Full Article