“There’s a market segment that’s desperately needing a little slice of Apple [AAPL] product marketing magic, and it’s 3DTV. Introduced with much brouhaha as a ‘must-have’ killer new feature, the technology has rapidly been relegated to just another spec, consumers like it, don’t love it,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “Does Apple have an iPad plan to make the technology interesting?”
“‘The fact that the iPad 3 is 3D is a dead certainty,’ a Hollywood insider told RCR Wireless,” Evans reports. “The report claims numerous big name studios are attempting to develop 3D content for Apple’s next launch. Foxconn sources have also claimed Apple is working on a 3D iPad.”
Evans reports, “Apple has filed a wide number of 3D patents, including for 3D operating system elements. The company has also been rumored to have been working on the development of 3D glasses. In the last few days Apple has said that the 3D Web graphics standard, WebGL, will be an option within iOS 5 for iAds.”
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “rimshot” for the heads up.]
3-D, schmee-D.
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but the space at the top of Safari where the address goes appears to be 3D as a page loads. I realize that this is not the same as a 3D movie, but I think that some of that technology is already here. This is on my iPhone 4.
Put me in the “never going to happen” camp. The stuff that Apple “does right” as so many commenters are saying, are things worth doing. 3D is a gimmick and one that’s beginning to fade in the market. Witness the diminishing box office receipts of 3D movies as an early indication of where that market’s going. And the idea that you’d don glasses to use your iPad? Does that *really* sound like Apple innovation to you?
Both my wife and my father have only 1 functional eye. They get SERIOUS migraine after 2 maybe 3 seconds… My wife even gets sick to puking within the first minute. I myself have a lazy left eye that causes me fatigue pretty quickly too. 3D looks nice of you can see 3D but is sh*t otherwise.
If this highly doubtful rumor were true, it would be my motivation to get an iPad 2.
I still think that the ipod-touch is being eliminated to make room for a game friendly ipad.
To me a game friendly ipad 3d to replace the ipod touch sounds like a hell of a lot of screaming kids begging the parents for an pad for x-ma$.
This is a response to yesterday’s news that consumers hate 3D movies. Hollywood is freaking out that their golden goose is dying, so a “Hollywood insider” makes up a rumor to attach a concept they are hoping stays relevant to Apple. Plain and simple.
Death to 3D. Holograms, however…
Wow isn’t that just ducky! We get a bullshit consumer crap feature like 3D for iPads and yet there is STILL no way for video professionals to play Blu Ray discs on their Macs! Thanks for NOTHING Apple.
Christ! i’ll be so glad when this 3D bull$hyte is fad-ed out.
Come on people!
It’s a gimmick at best–a non-essential experience.
Dunno, I think low level 3d through a nano-grooved lenticular surface would be quite kewl. I mean where it’s limited to a 0 to 3mm illusion of depth… buttons and windows would look extremely real – and using the device would not cause any nausea.
Somehow the 3D glasses approach does not sound like Apple. Glasses-free 3D would be more like Apple but then that technology is not there yet for use in both the landscape and vertical orientation that iPad users expect.