Display analysis firm Insight Media projects a minimum of 5 million 3D-capable laptops, monitors, TVs and projectors will be in the market in five years, with the potential for as many as 40 million by 2014.
The prediction comes in the form of a teaser chart with its online pitch to customers for the company’s 2009 Stereoscopic 3D Gaming Report: A Comprehensive Analysis of S-3D Technology for Gaming. The chart is shown as “an example of our forecast for worldwide 3D-capable unit shipments by technology…,” with “forecasts for three scenarios, Expected, Optimistic and Conservative.”
Noting how 3D movies have outperformed 2D movies in theaters, the introduction to the report says that although 3D has not yet found its way into the living room due to “limited stereoscopic 3D content, the lack of standards for distributing 3D content and the overall availability of 3D capable displays,” the exception has been gaming.
” Today’s gamers can enjoy well over 400 game titles in S-3D when using an appropriately equipped PC and one of the S-3D capable monitors. Very recent developments include the ability to play S-3D games on gaming consoles and a 3D-capable TV, the release of the 3D game “Avatar,” as well as the release of the first 3D capable laptop computers.
– By Scott Hettrick