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Could Optimus 3D be the phone of the Year ?

I was asking my self if a samrtphone equiped by 3D technology could be the big challenge for the mobile industry for this decade. I remember, when i have used the LG Optimus 3D for the first time, i was very impressed. I could not imagine that you are able to watch 3D films directely in your mobile without needing 3D glasses. I have the chance to study more the technology and to see how LG invent a new way to show 3D images on the LCD panel. What was impressing my, rather than the ingenious way of adding a Barrier layer in front of the LCD screen to delivere a seperate image to each eye, the many "3D" services or options that a 3D phone provide regarding a  normal use. Using Optimus 3D phone you can : Watch 3D movies. Play 3D games. Record 3D videos. Share 3D contents(3D Youtube, HDMI (TV)). Take 3D pictures. 3D apps. There are many ways to mesure innovation, but perhaps the most elemental yardstick, at least where technology is concerned, revolves around the j...

Tunandroid 2011 Event

It was a great pleasure for me to participate in the Tunandroid's first birthday event. I have been a member in the community since last year, and I was thinking how to give support for the tunsian's Android fans especially after the Tunisian revolution.  Tuanandroid is the official Android community for tunisan developers. It gives support for students and developers to improve their knowledge on the Android's platform. Tunandroid.com  contains more information about the community's activities and helps Tunisan android geeks to be updated with the last news about Android technologies and mobile vendors. During this event, the big  South korea firme, LG, was presented to give support to Tunisian Android developers. Christoph Marschall,Technical Manager of LG Europe Lab & Me from Tunisia Lab have the pleasure to  present the Real3D technology and how to start developing 3D applications using the  R...

Real3D API

As we have explained in the previous post about Real3D technology, to view images in 3D,a seperate image has to be  delivered to each eye. Using the  Real3D API, you can  create 3D content  without worrying about  the used displayed-technology. The Real3D API will  merge all  the needed information into image  frame buffer . The phone  will  render the final 3D-image in the format required by the LCD  display panel. 3D images are in the Side-by-Side format. The Side-by-Side format encodes left & right perspective image data into a single image  frame. Images in the 3D surface and 2S surface are merged by the surface flinger into the dispaly frame buffer. The resulting image is shown on the LCD 3D panel by the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer). Usually you have only to wait for the end of frame rendering into surface when you are dispalying 2D image. To show 3D image, Real3D surface is define...