Sharp demonstrates rumoured 3DS screen technology
Wants technology to replace LCDs used in 'games'
Sharp demonstrated its latest 3D LCD touchscreen technology last week, simultaneously managing to heap more fuel on the rumours surrounding the 3DS in the process.
While the Sharp spokesman didn’t directly confirm that it will be the technology used by Nintendo’s new device, he did say that Sharp would ‘like to replace the LCDs used in mobile phones, smartphones’ and, most interestingly, ‘games’.
This latest touchscreen has a resolution of 854x480 pixels, making it far more detailed than the current LCD screen used by both the DS (256x192) and the PSP (480x272).
Don’t get too excited by those resolutions, though. Even if Sharp was indeed the supplier of the 3DS’s screens, it would be unlikely that Nintendo would use the most recent version of the technology in its device, as the cost at retail would be far greater than the DSi XL.
Click on the video below to have a look at the parallax 3D technology in motion, albeit with the 3D effect ruined by the camera.
Kotaku
