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Computex Taipei, Taiwan – 3D mobile technology is about to get a very big boost on Monday, as chip maker Texas Instruments (TI) confirmed it would be partnering with MasterImage 3D on a development board which could be used to build glasses free apps, UIs and content for mobile devices.
MasterImage has been working with TI on the new CELL reference tablet and will be showing it off at Computex Taipei this week.
With the board, developers will have access to MaterImage’s patented Cell-Matrix Parallax Barrier technology, which makes for autostereoscopic “glasses free” 3D display using a process called “Cell gap”. If you’re wondering what on earth that is, you can read more here, or take MasterImage’s word for the fact it’s better than “3D stripe technology” because it can do both landscape and portrait viewing angles, boasts less “ghosting,” can switch easily between 2D and 3D, and beams out sharper pictures.
The company also boasts the fact that its tech can work on any kind of display, from TFT to OLED, to PDP, while also having high yields at relatively “low cost,” though we’re not entirely sure how to quantify that.
The tablet – available in 4.3” and 7.0” – is based on TI’s PandaBoard—the OMAP4430 applications processor-based mobile software development platform, and with consumer electronics giants courting TI like never before, MasterImage seems to be in the right place at the right time. A 10.1” version is said to be coming this summer.
The firm has described the demo as “business-ready for OEMs and ODMs” and hopes the halls of Computex will share its 3D vision.
“The quality is very impressive- it will be running the latest Hollywood summer trailers from Paramount, 3D games from Crytek, independent video from Digital Revolution Studios and 3D UI from Rightware,” Matt Liszt, VP of Marketing for MasterImage told RCR.
TI certainly seems to be flavor of the month at Computex Taipei 2011, so this is no small coup for MasterImage 3D, which believes 2011 and 2012 will be the years mobile 3D really pops. Autostereoscopically speaking, that is.
