At the CES 2011 in Las Vegas back in January, Sony gave us a glimpse of its OLED-based head-mounted display (HMD) for a truly personalised 3D viewing. Now, the Japanese consumer electronics giant has actually brought the concept to fruition, meaning that consumers will soon be able to get their hands on the futuristic-looking personal 3D viewer.
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| Sony launches HMZ-T1 head-mounted display with 3D OLED screens |
The company has today announced the official launch of its HMZ-T1 personal 3D viewer – purportedly the world’s first HMD with dual OLED screens and 3D functionality – at the IFA 2011 trade show in Berlin. The HMZ-T1 will feature two 0.7-inch OLED panels that each has a native HD resolution of 1280 x 720. Deploying organic LEDs will not only deliver some of the deepest blacks and richest colours, but also allow for mostly crosstalk-free tri-dimensional images thanks to OLED technology’s inherently faster response time.
To achieve a broader range of colours, Sony has implemented a colour separation technology on top of the base white organic layer, but hopefully this won’t skew the gamut too much such that it deviates significantly from the standards adopted by the HDTV industry. The company has also expanded the HMZ-T1’s horizontal viewing angle to 45° (therefore simulating a 750″ movie theatre screen at a virtual viewing distance of 20m), as well as built in a light-blocking shade to create an immersive, cinematic viewing experience.
Other features include integrated headphone speakers that deliver virtual 5.1 surround sound with four audio modes (cinema, music, game and standard), automatic power-off when not in use, control access with a password setting, and HDMI connectivity to source devices (like a Blu-ray player or a Sony PS3) via a bundled external processing unit. The Sony HMZ-T1 head-mounted 3D display will be released in Japan on the 11th of November priced at 59,800 yen (around £480), but UK pricing and availability remain unknown at this time of writing.
“mostly crosstalk-free”
Surely if these have 2 seperate screens, one for each eye, then it will be completly cross talk free regardles of response time?
John, I believe, it will be completely crosstalk-free for standstill pictures.
But with video and motion it is very important to keep sync between left and right screen intact, so it can still be affected with crosstalk even on fast OLED screens, I think.
“mostly cross-talk free”; as John said they will be completely cross-talk free because they are separate outputs.
Cross-talk is originally a term from telephony, referring to two mutually exclusive sources destructively interfering with each other because of poor modulation or signal distortion and was appropriate to 3D glasses because viewing angle(polarization) or synchronization issues(shutter) could result in similar destructive interference that is cross-talk.
Two separate screens in a 3D headset (like stereo earphones) would only appear to suffer this problem if the source material was wrongfully synchronized encoded from poor frame-rate material, a faulty cable to the headset(like a bad hdmi lead) was used, or the decoder unit was poorly designed with circuitry that cross-talked internally.
Like the headphones, the problem of the stereo synchronization wouldn’t be a fault of theirs, but source material or amplifier, or an artefact being described as cross-talk that isn’t.
I must have a set of these for gaming. Does anyone know the UK release date..?
If they’re anything like the rest of the market then they’ll be another waste of money. The Glastron were useless, the Olympus were useless and the new crop that have been out over the last few years were just as bad. I haven’t felt immersed in any of them.
Here’s hoping though!
the in brasil consumer electronics giant has actually the concept to consumers .
A sony deveria lançar no brasil e nao apenas no japao , os brasileiros compram atualmente mais que os japonese produtos eletronicos.
The UK release date is the 6th dec and will be £800 – i asked in the local sony store.
sony needs to make something that works or they will go bust soon, and we dont want that so they better deliver.
the price is too expensive, no one will buy this if it costs £800 they will just wait for the price to come down like any other electrical goods which is not good for sony cause u want to sell to the masses not just the rich and famouse.
I would not pay more then £500 for a set which would mean id have to wait a long time for these to drop in price, im think about 2 years or so.
I hope it works well with call of duty, cause i hate the limited periferal vision u get with standerd television sets, in other words i keep getting shot by someone standing next to me and i didnt see them, not very realistic.
looks awesome and a great concept now available.
wow lets hope it works and doesnt give me a headache.
and lets hope its completely wireless.
THE CRISTMAS GIFT OF THE YEAR….
not wireless… :(
Looks Good, though Sony need to get these mass produced, 8-10 week pre order when available isn’t near good enough, they really need to get these rolling into their shops, hope to have one in couple of months for my PC Games, PS3 and Blu Ray Movies, it’s also an shame as Thomas says that these are not Wireless, that would have been an lot better, seems also to have issues with being uncomfortable