Does Glasses-Free 3D Technology Actually Work?

The concept of Glasses-free 3D display technology originates from our desire to experience total visual immersion. Users can enjoy immersive 3D images without wearing 3D glasses, which sounds magical. 3D displays have a stronger impact on user’s visual senses than 2D displays, which easily attracts consumers’ curiosity and attention. This also increases the interactions between people and technology.

3D technology has a wide range of applications, such as entertainment, medical use, exhibitions, advertising, marketing, and more. Movies and electronic advertising are common applications for this type of technology. To meet personal needs, brands and manufacturers now have launched glasses-free 3D displays, laptops, tablets, and other products. But the question is, can these products meet user expectations?

Allion’s audio-visual product consulting team analyzed and summarized the common issues with these products.

• 3D images do not run smoothly and sometimes appear as 2D
• Poor eye tracking, resulting in poor-quality 3D images
• Videos and games that do not support 3D do not perform well in 3D mode

Case Studies

Currently, these 3D displays are not cheap, so consumers will have even higher standards when it comes to these products. A certain manufacturer contacted Allion after receiving lots of customer complaints. After our team fully understood the reasons for these complaints, we analyzed and summarized the causes of their issues based on decades of experience. The feedback given to the customer is as follows.

 Issue 1: Performance Issues 

• Insufficient graphics card performance
• System hardware compatibility issues
• Issues with 3D software and 3D monitors

 Issue 2: Eye-Tracking 

This issue is related to the firmware of the product. During product development, manufacturers need to consider various user scenarios that could affect eye-tracking performance such as:

• Different ethnicities
• Head and eye movements
• When users wear jewelry

Allion’s audio-visual consulting team will consider the following user scenarios when designing a verification plan.

• Age
• Gender
• Skin color
• Height
• Distance between eyes
• Eye color
• Eye size
• Viewing distances and angles
• Outfits, hairstyles, and accessories (hats, glasses, jewelry, etc.)

These are all important factors that could potentially affect eye-tracking performance.

Another important question to ask is, “Are the 3D images realistic enough?”. If the image source is a simple video or game that has not been processed for 3D viewing, the 3D effect will be very limited. However, if some videos or games support 3D, such as 3D games on Steam, the 3D effect can definitely be achieved without glasses, creating a magical immersive viewing experience for the user.

Glasses-free 3D products are continuing to be developed and improved. It can be said that 3D imagery and 3D interactions are just around the corner for everyone. Allion’s audio-visual product consulting team can help clients save time and costs during the product development stage, allowing our clients a faster, easier, and better experience.

Allion has decades of experience and can provide clients with the most suitable testing and consulting services they need. We can help our clients eliminate issues they encounter during product development and accelerate the process.

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Our consulting team has accumulated years of experience with major international manufacturers and clients. We have a variety of high-quality testing equipment, allowing us to customize tests according to different user scenarios. Allion can assist clients in improving their products in both the development phase and quality verification phase, allowing them to save time and resources in a faster, easier, and better way.

 Faster 

Allion can provide clients with fast and accurate evaluations that effectively shorten schedules for certifications. With thousands of laptops and tablets for testing, we have the most complete testing equipment in our laboratories, providing the best quality control for our clients.

• Quickly build an Glasses-Free 3D-related testing laboratory
• Quickly design development verification strategies
• Quickly obtain certification planning

 Easier 

By implementing AI and automation solutions, Allion ensures that every test is “qualitative, quantitative, and reproducible”, helping our clients to improve product performance in a more efficient manner.

• Less labor-intensive testing methods
• Time-saving and cost-effective testing solutions
• More accurate test results

 Better 

With more than 30 years of expertise, specialized technical team, and comprehensive testing environments and equipment, Allion is committed to providing clients with more improved quality of service based on extensive experience of User Scenario Testing.

• Provide a better and more complete consulting strategy with discussions
• Simulate better and more complete user scenario tests that include performance and functional testing under various conditions
• Professional debugging support and issue isolation

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