Fujitsu’s attachment to turn standard 2D phones to 3D
Fujitsu have been showing a lipstick sized device that attaches to standard mobile phone cameras and splits the image in two for 3D photography and video
Guests in one of Fujitsu’s Tokyo offices saw the prototype which uses two angled mirrors to create a stereo pair from the one lens of a camera phone. The two distorted images are then uploaded, corrected and processed on a Fujitsu server via the cloud, negating the need for additional software in the phone.
Images are sent back in a polarised 3D format, viewable on active 3D systems, regular anaglyph and glasses free 3D digital viewers. However, one draw back is the huge resolution loss, as it only uses 25% of the phone's sensor for 3D video.
Fujitsu said it will present the technology behind the new system at the International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE), held from June 4 to 6 in Harrisburg, PA and was offering the attachment and server access for free to Japanese residents as part of a promotion.
More details from the Japanese language site here
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