Electronics company Sharp are looking to bring 3D technology to smartphones this year. Sharp plans to introduce a 3D panel that can be viewed without the need for 3D glasses. According to a Sharp spokesperson the phone will also feature a 3D camera.
Sharp is Japan’s biggest selling mobile phone maker, however, it is a much smaller player in the global market. Sharp isn’t the first company to announce plans for a 3D phone. Nokia announced a research model called the N810 tablet last September. The technology Sharp will use is also similar to that being used by the 3D Nintentdo DS.
The technology will work through a process called “binocular disparity”. Each eye has a slightly different viewpoint and the brain takes the two different images and combines them as one. You can read about the process behind 3D images here in more detail.
Sharp hope that the new techonology will enable them to compete with Apple and other leading smartphone manufacturers.