According to Insight Media, the popularity of 3D gaming will explode in the next five years, alongside the expected growth of 3D-capable displays.
The report says 40 million 3D-capable devices will be installed by 2014, with a good number being consoles, including the PS3 which is firmware-upgradable to 3D.
“We have spent considerable time on our forecasting methodology and believe we have created something that is truly new, innovative and ground breaking,” added Chris Chinnock, president of Insight Media, via GI.biz.
“We have played Stereoscopic 3D games for hundreds of hours and can report that the latest technology does not result in eye strain or fatigue,” notes Dale H Maunu, lead analyst on the report.“Our experience leads us to believe that S-3D gaming is more immersive and compelling that traditional gaming on a 2D screen. We spoke directly with gamers, game developers, and game publishers as well as display makers to build a complete picture of the future of gaming, along the way going from sceptical middle-age display veterans to 3D gaming fanboys.”
Result for: display makers
Nokia has filed lawsuits this week against major CRT and LCD makers, alleging price fixing.
The companies, or their subsidiaries, named in the suits are AU Optronics, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Seiko Epson, Sharp and Toshiba.
“The investigations are into alleged cartel activities, effectively price fixing, in the supply of both CRTs (cathode ray tubes) and LCDs (liquid crystal display) — components that we have bought in significant volumes over a number of years. Had we not been overcharged for them our profitability would have been higher,” says Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant.
Durrant did not disclose how much Nokia was seeking in monetary damages, but did say they were “not insignificant.”
Result for: display makers
AT&T has sued LCD panel makers Samsung, Sharp, LG, AU Optronics and two others over claims that they fixed prices on panels sold in the United States in the past few years.
Says AT&T in the suit: The six display makers “formed an international cartel illegally to restrict competition in the United States in the market for LCD panels. The conspiracy included communications and meetings in which defendants agreed to eliminate competition and fix the prices of LCD panels that were ultimately incorporated into LCD products that they knew would be sold in California and the United States.”
Earlier this year, Hitachi pleaded guilty to international LCD panel price-fixing, the fourth company to do so this year. LG already paid $585 million in criminal fines in that case.
