This isn't new tech. Fairly certain this is the method. Heard of this a long time ago. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy#O...display_methods What this means: A filter is over the screen (adjusted by the slider on the right?) which limits the pixels that can be viewed by each eye. That is why you can't be too far to one side or the other. When the image is processed in your head, magic happens (3D effect). Not sure if this is the exact method I was thinking of but the closest I could find from a Google search.
Nope, it sure isn't new tech. In fact there was a model they showed on TechTV (before it became G4) On The Screen Savers, and it was marketed as a gaming laptop, and they played Battlefield 1942, and had to stop after 10 minutes or so because the effect was headache inducing.
This is a much better description of how the 3D effect in 3DS is created http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/12/3d_illusion/ It's nothing new, Sharp has been selling PC monitors with the same technology for yes. That article is from 2004. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/11/sharp_lcd/
The method might be correct, but the filter never gets adjusted, the software renders the image twice, once from the left and once from the right. The slider changes how far left or right the two images are rendered from. If you changed the filter in any way it would completely f*ck up the effect, the filters have to remain exact.
