Apple iPad 3 to sport 3D screen a 'dead cert' If claims that Apple's next iPad will sport a 2048 x 1536 display containing four times as many pixels as the current one stretched credibility, one rumour, that successor to the iPad 2 will incorporate a glasses-free 3D screen, takes it to breaking point. The claim comes from an alleged Hollywood insider who told RCR Wireless …
That's why, like every other tablet on the market, Apple went for a widescreen aspect ratio and a screen resolution that's a pixel count fit for either standard def content (800-ish x 480) or high def content (1280x720-ish or 1920x1080-ish).
Oh, wait, no they didn't. They concentrated on making it a better web browsing and app device.
(I could believe they'll double the resolution, and I'd be very glad to be wrong in thinking it unlikely. I could believe they'd use the extra resolution to consider going glasses-free 3D for gaming, although I suspect they're watching 3DS sales quite closely. Whether Apple's priority is playing 1920x1080 content in a small box on a doubled-resolution iPad screen IN 3D, I doubt.)
Apple is going for the higher res screen.
If they get it, they have the video drivers capable of using the screen, then you could write a 3D app for the device.
Well maybe not you, but the makers of the video controller/GPU could and put the drivers on the device so that you or Hollywood could make 3D content.
I agree. I don't want it. Yet when I buy my next TV, I'll end up buying a 3D TV. Why? Because it has the resolution and features that I want. I can always ignore and never use the 3D, but Hollywood marketing twits will still count me in their 3D numbers and push for more content.
I definitely want the higher res screen.
Seriously! People think the next iPad will be 3D enabled? Realy! Obviously Apple will evaluate the Nintento 3DS and see how the general public respond to it. Then the'll look at it's economical impact on the price of the next iPhone then once it's released there it'll be implemented in the next iPad! Is'nt this the logical process?
But if it was I like it. I really do like the 3DS and when you adjust it with the slider for your eyes and comfort level it is brilliant.
Glasses free 3D, auto switch to 2D when in portrait mode for reviewing those work documents and contract will be fantastic. Also stereo cameras on the back please, the 3DS has finally got AR to a level where it is fun and useful.
Then finish it off with a pico projector as well please.
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