The stereoscopic 3D market for PCs alone will grow to a whopping $34 billion on the sales of 75 million dedicated S3D PCs by 2014, according to a $3,000 market study by Jon Peddie Research.
And those figures are even more amazing when you consider they come from a base this year of projected sales of fewer than one million S3D PCs this year.
By the way, those S3D PCs will require glasses.
That’s the bullish forecast by Peddie, which sees videogames as the primary driver of this market.
“Gaming will be the vehicle for kick-starting the S3D PC market,” said Jon Peddie. “The gaming segment has the largest inventory of content and the most vocal enthusiasts who will spread the word and show their friends and families what it looks like and what it can do. They will ignite the imagination of the non-gamers. However, our forecast is that the S3D market will soar within the next three years based on the expectation that good quality content will be produced, and the incremental cost for S3D will diminish, if not disappear. Otherwise history will repeat itself and it will be reduced to a small volume novelty market.“
JPR’s report, provides forecasts for the unit sales of the seven major applications that will take advantage of S3D on the PC:
1. PC: Games
2. Blu-ray DVD movies
3. Streaming TV (IP TV)
4. Photo-editing
5. Home video editing
6. Streaming video (from YouTube and other sites)
7. Professional graphics (CAD and visualization)
— By Scott Hettrick