The 3-D screen, a fixture of sci-fi and mad inventor fantasies, is finally getting real. The new tech is called autostereographics, and it applies recent breakthroughs in optical science to traditional LCDs, delivering 3-D video without the dorky glasses. The screens are flat, relatively cheap, and ready for commercial applications like gaming, digital photography, online shopping, and, inevitably, porn. Sony, Microsoft, and dozens of others are working to create compatible hardware, software, and content. First out of the gate is Sharp with a laptop screen that lets you toggle between 3-D and 2-D - eye-popping games one minute, productivity apps the next. (After all, you wouldn't want to do your taxes in 3-D.) The 10-pound Actius RD3D runs Windows XP and features a 2.8-GHz processor, a hi-res 1,024 x 768-pixel screen, and 512 megs of memory.
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