The article correctly points out a number of considerations from the consumer market, and more importantly from the game sector, suggesting 3D cameras, 3D videos and 3D photos are just around the corner.

I would argue that also latest developments in 3D CAD products, such as recently launched Creo from PTC (NYSE: PTC) will substantially increase business demand for high performance 3D LCD technology.

For a number of years new product development (NPD) has seen the surge of new technologies aimed at seeing and touching the prototype of a new product. From stereo-lithography to polymer based 3D printing, the past 20 years have seen an array of (expensive) solutions to support the NPD people in their need to quickly come up with a solid representation of the product under development.

Virtual reality rooms have long been used by large corporations to help support analysis and feedback of the "touch and feel" of a new product, be it a new car, or a cell phone, or hair dryer. Rooms that used to go for some 200.000 Euro in the past and still today require much, expensive and elaborate architecture. Something that prevents the NPD and Engineering departments from frequent use.

Now we face the possibility of workstation monitors (one assumes at costs comparable to current ones) that support highly defined and realizing 3D images without usage of goggles.

I have witnessed first hand the impact on productivity and users' feedback when moving them to high quality 30" monitors for 3D direct modeling applications.  Productivity increases and errors are reduced because much easier to spot. Still, at present some angles are difficult to interpret, like in the case of sheet metal applications.

A 3D LED technology that was able to render a reliable and accurate "as-if-real" image would be most welcome, as return of investment would be approximately "immediate".

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