Nippon Systems have unveiled a clever new layer of film that when put on your iPhone makes it a glasses free 3D device. At just $52 (around £30) it looks identical to a typical screen protector but uses parallax technology to show different images to each eye meaning you get true 3D without glasses.
While the effect is not quite as good as a dedicated glasses free 3D device such as the Nintendo 3DS or LG's Optimus 3D the film does bring proper 3D to anyone who wants it without the need for a new phone and the company say they will follow up with the same technology being available for selected Android phones (Galaxy S2 version initially) as well as the PS Vita, MacBook Air, iMac and Panasonic Let's Note laptop soon.
The company also provide an app that can convert 2D content to 3D as well as an app to take 3D pictures. Not speaking Japanese I had to use google translate in order to dig deeper into the details and find that the 3D camera app works by getting the camera to take a picture then has the user move the phone slightly to the right for a second view. The two images are then combined into one 3D image and stored in a 3D format. Combining of the pictures is automatic as is the picture taking process which, if I understand the rather awkward translation correctly, uses the phones sensors to take the pictures for each view rather than depending on the user to align the shots manually.
