3D Sort Of…

3D Sort Of…
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3D TVs had their day, becoming commercialized in 2010 and peaking in 2012, but by 2016 the production of 3D TVs had ended.  With no real standardization and an audience in which ~12% could not watch such images without complications and ~30% were unable to fully visualize 3D images, the concept, which in most cases involved the wearing of 3D ‘decoding’ glasses, was considered a fad, despite the success of a number of movies that were shot in 3D.   Another unusual display technology, stretchable displays, has been on the mind of a number of OLED display producers, particularly Samsung Display (pvt), who has shown such at exhibitions over the last few years.   We never could quite understand the attraction for stretchable displays, as the applications were quite limited, but from the standpoint of being able to actually produce such a display, it was a technical accomplishment.
Now SDC has taken both technologies and combined them to create what might be called, for lack of a better name, a stretchable 3D display.  It’s not exactly a 3D display, but if you watch the demo, you can see that the display moves (stretches) in accordance with the content, which in this case is flowing lava.  While watching a TV made with such material might not have the depth that actual 3D technology might have, the fact that the screen could ‘flow’ with the content might be a legitimate application for stretchable display technology.  In this case the demo was made using a 13” panel, so a real commercial product is still far away, but at least it begins to justify all the R&D that has gone into stretchable displays; sort of…
https://youtu.be/kg2Izr6krY0
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