Exclusive CES Video: 3D Camcorder from Sony -- No Glasses Needed!

So far, 3D has been a failure. The bulky glasses and expensive sets -- not to mention the lack of content -- have made it less than a savior for the CE industry.

But that all changed today at CES, as Sony released its new camcorder -- a Handycam that lets just about anyone shoot 3D video.

This amazing Sony 3D camera lets you monitor your video in 3D without glasses. It's the first ever camera to include two lenses, two image sensors and two complete processing paths! And it also makes it drop dead easy to create in 3D -- now anyone can do it.

But what about editing? Our exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Sony's HDR-TD10 also includes a look at a new 3D editing device coming soon from Sony too. It'll be available in April for $2,000!

Watch Exclusive Video of Sony's 3D Camcorder, and See How It Works!

We'll have much more from CES as the show progresses. For all the updates, bookmark our CES 2011 special report!

 

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Comments

[CLamb]

02:25 PM on 01/06/2011

Why is HuffPo allowing Sony to write articles for it? This is an application of well-established technology. The idea of using an lenticular display for 3D dates back about a century. While freeing the user from wearing special glasses lenticular displays require the user to be positioned just right for it to work; the user lacks the freedom to view the display from different angles than planned. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopy for more information.

[Mools]

09:37 AM on 01/06/2011

My brother actually won a 3d camera back in the 80s and it was unbelievably awesome. It had 4 lenses and used regular film. Each lense took a picture on hald a frame of film. So each photo you took actually used 2 full frames. The ony problem was you had to mail the film to some place way off in the states (we're canadian) and so it cost way more and took a while to develop. After a while it was just not worth the time and effort to bother using it anymore. Eventually the camera was stolen when the house got broken into. Plus we didn't even know after a while if the company even existed anymore.

But I have to admit, the photos were awesome and looked great. The biggest problem with 3d now is the glasses. The new Nintendo 3DS comes out soon and lets you game in 3D with no glasses. This camcorder must use the same technology. The barrier with the 3d with no glasses technology is really only one person can use it because you have to look at the screen at a perfect, straight on angle for it to work.

Until the technology for 3D without glasses advances enough so we can all have TVs in our living rooms that USE it and can be viewed properly by a group of people, it won't fly.

[waldopepper]

02:58 AM on 01/06/2011

3D = gimmick, that no one wants. You'd think that the manufacturers would be able to do some accurate market research. Surely they have done some. But when 3d things such as these don't sell. Then you have to ask, how bad is this market research? Who did it? And how much were they paid to do such a poor job of researching the public's purchasing wishes?

[Eris23]

01:06 PM on 01/06/2011

"3D = gimmick, that no one wants."

Kind of like the electric guitar? Don't knock it yet. Once 3D tech continues to evolve in a way that it becomes obtainable by the masses rather than Hollywood studios, you are likely to see some really creative and beautiful uses of it. The type of thing that James Cameron wouldn't understand.

[BluestateGuyInTX]

03:10 PM on 01/06/2011

I agree but it is hard to find people that aren't taken in by the hype--even in the business. It's not like color TV in that only things that are fairly close to us even have much 3D character. Mountains are blue (or green or whatever) regardless of how far they are from our eyes. The parallax needed for 3-D is detectable by our rather closely spaced eyes only at relatively close distances.