Meant to be Seen

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 wrote: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.