ViewSonic ViewFun 3D Show photo frame hands-on

[Silversurfer]

Do you love 3D? Do you love pictures? Do you love 3D pictures? The ViewFun 3D Show picture frame from ViewSonic may just be your fix you've been dreaming of. The $179 photo viewer jankily converts 2D stills to 3D (and videos, too, apparently, although we didn't get to see a demo) and eliminates the use for those funky glasses. The images remind us of holograms we used to find in cereal boxes, except bigger. The 8-inch frame sports capacitive buttons on the bezel that light up on contact. Along the left side of device, you'll find a USB 2.0 port, SD slot and power button. In order to stand this thing up, the company packed a pull-out plastic kickstand that felt pretty flimsy. Oh, and the remote control we demoed had improper button mapping, which made it virtually useless. Peek the gallery below the fold for a bunch of shots of this thing on the CES show floor.

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[cybereality]

2D->3D photos, I'm not so sure about that. At least with video you have motion parallax and other stuff you can use for interpretation. With a photo all you have is the color data. A lot harder to recognize object and relative depths. I guess it might do something (I know the TriDef photo converter does seem to work OK sometimes) but I really don't like this push for 2D->3D conversion. People should be motivated to buy 3D content creation equipment.

[yuriythebest]

2D->3D photos, I'm not so sure about that. At least with video you have motion parallax and other stuff you can use for interpretation. With a photo all you have is the color data. A lot harder to recognize object and relative depths. I guess it might do something (I know the TriDef photo converter does seem to work OK sometimes) but I really don't like this push for 2D->3D conversion. People should be motivated to buy 3D content creation equipment.

unless they have a tiny person sitting inside doing the converting I'd not have much interest