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CES 2026: Samsung Announces Glasses-Free 6K 3D Odyssey G9 Gaming Monitor
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bgillander
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Having "New" actually in a product name is such a terrible idea, especially 11 years after the product is released. On first read of your post, I was hoping that Nintendo recently released a new 3DS, not that you were referring to the decade old the New 3DS. 🙁
depth perception in real life requires two eyes! I had a one eyed basketball coach who read the paper while we trained and played completion games and he let a parent coach, he couldn't see
Perhaps it should be clear to everyone that this 3D is not real 3D either, but rather 2.5D, as in the cinema or on “3D” TVs a few years ago.
It's a nice effect, but if this “new” “3D” isn't of extremely high quality, then I'd rather do without it, because it would actually significantly reduce the image quality.
I think we need to be clear: we're talking about ever-improving image display, such as HDR, HFR, and HiDPI, and then we're letting this quality be ruined by a “nice” little “3D” effect.
Even where real 3D would work properly (e.g., with an Apple Vision Pro), a cinema enthusiast would politely decline because the film quality is only mediocre when compared to the best OLED TVs.
It's a nice effect, but if this “new” “3D” isn't of extremely high quality, then I'd rather do without it, because it would actually significantly reduce the image quality.
I think we need to be clear: we're talking about ever-improving image display, such as HDR, HFR, and HiDPI, and then we're letting this quality be ruined by a “nice” little “3D” effect.
Even where real 3D would work properly (e.g., with an Apple Vision Pro), a cinema enthusiast would politely decline because the film quality is only mediocre when compared to the best OLED TVs.
But why? The human eye is measurably incapable of detecting details beyond 4K. Not to mention many current games need a 5090 for 4K 60 FPS.
EugW
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That was my initial thought. Who wants this? The only thing I thought cool about 3D tv's and console gaming way back was you could play Call of Duty 2 player and by using glasses with 2 left lenses and another set of glasses with 2 right lenses you could both have full screen and not see the other players screen. No one is playing together on the same console anymore so that was a novelty that is probably not even possible anymore as those games don't have local co-op games anymore as far as I know.
I know. But you asked whether it'll work for people who wear glasses. It will
My understanding was that the display uses lenticular 3D (same thing as the old Nintendo 3DS) to actually present a different image to each eye. So in fact it is stereo 3D in supported apps / games.
I think it will be activated directly on the monitor, and working regardless of the source, just like old 3d tvs with its 2d>3d conversion
Consider the following:
I assume you've all seen the Apple Photos AI 3D enhancement by now, that segments parts of the photo, then applies parallax as the phone/iPad is angled, so that the foreground items move relative to the background items.
It works pretty well, but it requires you to keep angling the display device, because otherwise how would it know that it should change the relative positioning of foreground to background?
Now assume that someone (ie Apple!) sells a small head-mounted "bead" (hell this could even be a new feature added to AirPods by SW!) that can detect your head orientation and how it changes, and report it by radio. That gets conveyed to the computing device (phone, iPad, mac) which in response shifts different window and control layers (and even content within controls) by different amounts. This would be a kind of poor man's 3D display. But "poor man's" doesn't necessarily mean inferior!
You wouldn't get "binocular vision" 3D, but you would get parallax 3D, and that might be good enough for many purposes. It's certainly enough to make the UI "pop" literally, which could actually be useful in terms of having a better feeling for layering, or for trying to view 3D models.
Anyway, anyone who's reading this - take up the idea and run with it!
I assume you've all seen the Apple Photos AI 3D enhancement by now, that segments parts of the photo, then applies parallax as the phone/iPad is angled, so that the foreground items move relative to the background items.
It works pretty well, but it requires you to keep angling the display device, because otherwise how would it know that it should change the relative positioning of foreground to background?
Now assume that someone (ie Apple!) sells a small head-mounted "bead" (hell this could even be a new feature added to AirPods by SW!) that can detect your head orientation and how it changes, and report it by radio. That gets conveyed to the computing device (phone, iPad, mac) which in response shifts different window and control layers (and even content within controls) by different amounts. This would be a kind of poor man's 3D display. But "poor man's" doesn't necessarily mean inferior!
You wouldn't get "binocular vision" 3D, but you would get parallax 3D, and that might be good enough for many purposes. It's certainly enough to make the UI "pop" literally, which could actually be useful in terms of having a better feeling for layering, or for trying to view 3D models.
Anyway, anyone who's reading this - take up the idea and run with it!
Parallax is one option.
A second option is so-called lenticular lenses which are a way to direct different images at different angles, so that your two eyes see slightly different images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_lens
These have (so far) been kinda lousy and mainly used as cheap gimmicks for static images. But, like so many things, throwing some serious R&D and compute power at them might make the idea work dramatically better.
Apple enthusiast through a phase of submitting a few patents around this idea, that together present an image of imaging a Vision Pro 3D-like interface that could work even on non-Vision Pro screens. They may have given up the idea? Or they may be on the way to productizing it with Samsung Display, and this is Samsung's side quest to try to monetize an early version of the display technology?
Wahlstrm
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Has anyone here followed Samsung closely over the last few years? If yes is it possible based on what we've seen in previous years to estimate how long the delay is likely to be between this CES announcement and availability in Europe? (I'm particularly interested in the UK.) Does Samsung tend to announce stuff a long way in advance so we might be looking at a release well into the second half of this year or might we expect shipments to start earlier, in Q2 or even Q1 of this year?
I'm planning to move from my current Windows desktop PC setup to a Mac in April or May this year and that seems like a good time to upgrade my existing pretty much bottom of the range Samsung 32" 4K monitor to a 32" 6K monitor. I was looking at the ASUS ProArt model because I'm definitely not paying Apple XDR prices but - depending on price, full specs and early reviews of the more basic Samsung G80HS IPS non-3D model announced at CES 2026 - that might be an option if becomes available in time for my planned April/May move to Mac.
I'm planning to move from my current Windows desktop PC setup to a Mac in April or May this year and that seems like a good time to upgrade my existing pretty much bottom of the range Samsung 32" 4K monitor to a 32" 6K monitor. I was looking at the ASUS ProArt model because I'm definitely not paying Apple XDR prices but - depending on price, full specs and early reviews of the more basic Samsung G80HS IPS non-3D model announced at CES 2026 - that might be an option if becomes available in time for my planned April/May move to Mac.
