Snap Away in 3d ; a Compact Camera That Takes 3d Pictures You Can See Without Having to Wear Daft Glasses... Is It Too Good to Be True?

Mail on Sunday › October 18, 2010

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Fujifilm's W3 off ers a first chance to see your own head in 3D, without the use of medical scanners, transcendental meditation or, most importantly, 3D glasses. It's a genuine out-of-body experience - albeit one just three inches across. Looking at yourself in anything so outdated as a mirror fl attens your face in the process - and seeing your own face leap out from the camera's crisp 3D display, it's difficult to suppress thoughts like, 'Is my nose really that big?' As gadget talking points go, you'll be hard-pressed to better it this Christmas. It certainly trumps most 3D TVs.

You might be thinking, 'Hang on, why do I have to wear those ridiculous specs at the cinema if this creates 3D without them?' But Fuji's display uses a lenticular 3D system that works best for viewers directly in front of the screen. Light is diverted to each eye individually by a film of lenses so your best viewing distance is around arm's length, which would cause an elbowing civil war in most British households were it applied to televisions. Here, though, it just takes a couple of seconds of aligning yourself before the involuntary gasp. This is the second in Fuji's series of 3D cameras.