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3D: iPad Tablet makers watching a 3D future

IPad is 3D. And you can take that to the Bank.

It's just a matter of time-and it could happen sooner than you might think. As an army of rival tablets bear down on Apple's golden child, 3D is increasingly looking like the best next step.

Internet started buzzing with speculation about iPad 3 even before Apple has closed the doors on the iPad launch press 2. With jobs & maintaining understandably MOM on what is to come, the rumor mill has run amok since then. So we thought let's add our conjectures.

Third dimension:Apple is planning to introduce 3D with the iPad 3? From a standpoint ofnames would make sense

Keep reading and I'll be hassle because the time is right, as do iPad 3D display technology could work and summarize what is Apple's main rivals are already doing in 3D space.

3D visualization of next generation

Speculation about the iPad 3 focuses primarily on its display-and with good reason. Is the most obvious upgrade that Apple can make your tablet.

Currently, the iPad 2 has a screen with resolution 1024 x 768. But Apple can do better.

The Retina Display used by iPhone 4 has no obvious point structure and crystalline text offers. That's why the pixels are just 78 micrometers wide.

This so-called Retina Display gave Apple an edge in the mobile market and could do the same in the increasingly congested arena of Tablet. Bring technology to the iPad would Display Retina quadrupling its resolution. Hints of a standard 1536 x 2048 pixels are already beginning to emerge, with app Apple supports resolutions of 1024 x 768 and 1536 x 2048.

But even a Retina Display is not a big enough deal to keep the iPad 3 ahead of the competition. It is known that the largest manufacturers of screen of that world are fast-tracking technologies 3D autostereoscopic. See 3D as a driver for hardware sales and content, but we all know very well that consumers would rather not wear 3D glasses if they don't have to.

Unfortunately, producing big screen auto-3D is difficult. Each floor of depth that you create screen resolution robs. To bring out a large no-glasses display you need to use a panel of next generation-4K2K which is 8 million pixels give or take. Today, 1920 x 1080 Full HD screens are 2 million pixels. So to produce a no-glasses 3D Panel requires four times as a flat image resolution-which is exactly the same that bump PPI allows pixel technology 78 micrometers of Apple. This technique could be used to give iPad no-glasses 3D? The numbers seem to add up.

Adding fuel to the three dimensional fire was a demonstration by panel maker CPT (Chunghwa Picture tubes) at the recent Salon Display Taiwan (which took place on 14-16 June).

On his booth CPT was showing a 3D touchscreen display shoehorned into a case of the iPad. The display was not marketable; you had to wear passive 3D glasses to see the demo still images. CPT was saying nothing about the show, but given how cool it looked like the end result we like to think is a clear indicator of things to come.

So what are rivals to Apple doing?

LG has already demonstrated its first tablet 3D. The optimus Pad has a 8.9 inch display, 15: 9 1280 x 768 resolution. Unlike smartphones Optimus, autostereoscopic – requires wearing 3D spex. Still, the benefits of its 3D capabilities are clear. The pad Optimus, who runs the Android OS 3.0 honeycomb, has dual cameras for 5MP stereoscopy 3D photo and video camera. 3D movies may be observed on the tablet or squirted out to a 3D TV.

Meanwhile, over at Computex, Asus has just unveiled the Eee Pad MeMo. This alternative honeycomb sports a 7 inch Parallax barrier no-glasses 3D display with a resolution of 1280 x 800. As a point of difference bundles a stylus, so you can use it as a digital Notepad. However, Asus is banking on 3D games, movies and photos to be a big draw.

Above: MeMo Pad Eee

HTC has already gone without 3D glasses with 3D smartphone HTC Evo. Next step: a 3D HTC tablet? It is really not a big leap of the imagination is it?

The corner of home entertainment

The pressure to take tabs into the third dimension will be exacerbated as the slate market moves on its orbit and becomes part of the entertainment experience.

All major 3D TV vendors are planning home entertainment tablets, positioning them as secondary personal devices, TV. Early content will flow seamlessly from one to the other-and with all tellies decent soon offering 3D compatibility means really make sense to keep the two-dimensional tablets?

The expert's view

Chief Engineer of the sky and 3D Evangelist Chris Johns has no doubt about the potential and the appeal of user self-3D. "I don't think the technology is there to set bigger," he told us when we ambushed in a technical briefing, "DTG but I can't see it being very long before the main Tablet manufacturers are expressed some form of 3D offering that you can download a".

The man from heaven believes that auto-3D is destined to become the de facto way of looking at 3D on small screens.

"When I saw the screenshot of the Nintendo 3DS I was excited," he admits. In fact, Johns was so impressed by Parallax barrier screen Nintendo which offered more codec support, 3D content, if necessary.

"It will be interesting to see how Apple reacts to the growing number of mobile products that are adopting auto-3D," he said sharply.

In fact, it will.

[techradar.com]