Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative - a step away from the universal 3D-glasses

Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, Xpand 3D and other companies in September, ready to introduce a new standard for universal active 3D-glasses

The good news about the next - this time, hopefully, a successful attempt to standardize mezhindustrialnoy active-stereoscopic shutter glasses for 3D-theater and consumer electronics. Company Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and X6D (Xpand 3D) officially announced a partnership to develop the technological standard called HD Full 3D Glasses Initiative (The concept of Full HD 3D-glasses). 

This agreement, aimed at joint development and licensing of a single standardized system for 3D-glasses synchronize with the active gate. Under the new system is meant not only to develop uniform requirements for the actual points, but also the adoption of unified transport of radio-frequency specifications of protocols that describe the interaction of active-shutter glasses with 3D-wide list of devices display 3D-images, including televisions, computers, projectors, cinema system.

Translating from an official language on the human, the new consortium is working on a generic 3D-glasses to work with any 3D-equipment, without regard to brand of TV, projector, etc. Now this is a very serious problem. For example, Samsung uses in their glasses wireless technology Bluetooth, glasses Panasonic and Sony are working with infrared, but not compatible with one another interface. Company XPAND 3D and produces completely different glasses specifically for each class of 3D-art third-party companies, such as a model for XPand-X102 DLP-projectors, XPand X103 for 3D-TV, Xpand X103x laptop HP Envy 17 3D.

To date, the market players, equipment to support active-shutter 3D-glasses, which must be confessed, had navydumyvat a variety of protocols and standards that are incompatible with each other. In this context, it is encouraging to note a new consortium Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative initially did not reject the already existing strengths. In contrast, the new comprehensive standard will include various types of infrared interfaces, including joint development companies Panasonic and Xpand 3D, as well as proprietary protocols Samsung and Sony. Although the main goal and the immediate goal of the new consortium is still called the creation of radio frequency (RF) interface.

For a better understanding of the importance of the news for the future of 3D-industry, it is worth recalling the previous attempts to create a single standard of universal active-shutter 3D-glasses. For a long time, the market developed spontaneously, without any hint of standardization. The first visible steps have been taken only at the beginning of 2011 Consumer Electronics Association (CEA, Consumer Electronics Association), which in the days of the exhibition CRS 2011 announced the establishment of a working group on 3D-standards (3D Technologies Working Group), which is and was engaged in the development of protocols and unified specifications of active-shutter 3D-glasses. Already planned in the spring of publication standard for glasses with an infrared interface, and the end of 2011 had been promised a version of the standard points with RF - Bluetooth and / or ZigBee interfaces. Initially, the same was declared to support all types of displays, including LCD, LED / OLED, PDP and DLP, with the frame refresh rate between 48 Hz - 72 Hz.

It is hard to say what would end this idea, but judging by the current state of affairs, all hopelessly dull and very likely that all is over, so it began. The last official document adopted in the framework of this initiative is just what is the "proposal of intent" - Active Eyewear Standard IR Sync Request For Proposals Interface ( CEA R4 WG16 ), dated January 2011. After that, the initiative on the site CEA mentioned only once - in the February update standards CEA Standards Update .

In short, as one of the characters in the book of Mark Twain's "Gilded Age", standing on the bank of the river at the wharf Napoli Stone, "Let me tear a dog, if the railway will be here ever again!" Yes, it seems.

Another, more successful attempt to create can be called at the beginning of April 2011 a working group with the beautiful name of M-3DI .Initially, the project was led by Panasonic and Xpand 3D - yes, they are also among the four founders of the consortium now considered Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative.

  

From the outset, it was announced that developed a standard M-3DI for universal active-shutter glasses 3D-plan to use not only with home TVs, but also with equipment for movie theaters, computers, home projectors. Originally scheduled to begin licensing M-3DI with April 2011, although still in the list of licensees on the project site are registered only by the developers, plus Hitachi Consumer Electronics.

And now came the turn of a new attempt at a Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative. Project participants are promised that the first version of the standard, available for licensing, will be available in September 2011. "The concept of Full HD 3D-points" to support a new radio / infrared synchronization systems will be available in 2012. Moreover, it is planned that the new points will be backward compatible with models of 3D-TV, released in 2011.  

Cooperation between the companies as part of Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative is unique in several respects. First of all, it should be noted that the consortium has collected all the major manufacturers of 3D-TV with an active-slide technology, 3D-glasses - Panasonic, Samsung and Sony. Considerable support to the new standard also provides industrial group Bluetooth SIG, part of which guarantees the standardization of protocols based on Bluetooth technology for 3D-glasses.

Very active in the market of 3D-TV by LG Electronics and Visio dropped from the list just because they rely on passive technology of 3D-glasses with circular polarization.

As for the other active participants in the market display devices 3D, they automatically are adjacent to the new project as heirs

M-3DI. Recall that the protocols developed jointly by Panasonic and Xpand 3D, initially approved the company's Hitachi Consumer Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric, ViewSonic and Seiko Epson, a company Funai Electric, Hisense Electric and SIM2 Multimedia have announced participation in the project M-3DI as associate members . Since the operating time M-3DI now, in fact, constitute the core of the project Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative, all former members of the group plus company Changhong Electric will automatically connect to a new project.

From our hearts we would like to wish the developers Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative for early success. For us, the end customers, this means you can use the same 3D-glasses to any home entertainment devices and from various manufacturers and even some movie theaters. In addition, the unification will surely bring to the market a long-awaited price reduction, since the current active glasses costs more than $ 100 per pair, to be honest, already seem a sacrilege. But at least glad that this time the battle standards, it seems, has ended without even fervent. It seems that the producers themselves, repeatedly burned in battles such as Betacam vs VHS, SD vs MS, Blu-ray vs HD DVD, finally understood that to be rich and healthy is better than fighting.

It remains to wait for September. We hope that nice-technology.blogspot.com one of the first and in detail to acquaint the reader with detailed specifications of the new standard Full HD 3D Glasses Initiative. No it is not something that features - even the logo yet.