Oakley is cashing in on the 3D Hype with their new TRON-centric ‘3D Gascan’ eyewear, boasting ‘industry leading lens technologies’. Check this out:
To engineer Oakley 3D eyewear, Oakley combined its industry-leading frame innovations with lens technologies that maximize the 3D experience by offering unprecedented levels of clarity and visual fidelity. “TRON” Limited Edition 3D Gascan features HDO-3D™, a collection of proprietary lens innovations that have achieved the first optically correct 3D eyewear on Earth.* Oakley 3D lenses virtually eliminate the ghosting or “crosstalk” between images that reach each eye from one moment to the next, a potential problem with inferior 3D eyewear.
If it’s true, it’s a big deal. My bet is that it’s mostly marketing hype, tho. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to buy these circularly-polarized passive 3D glasses through the website and Sunglass Hut stores for a cool $150 starting next month, just in time to take them to see TRON in theaters.
Not that I’ll be wearing them. Looks like they didn’t count on folks wearing these over glasses. Score one for Samsung.
Looks like a lot of hype to me – along the lines of their “Plutonite lens material” etc.. Anyway, they are not the first to claim optically correct 3D eyewear. Polaroid Eyewear announced a few weeks back and they have accreditation from RealD for curved lenses (standard 3D glasses have flat lenses). Also Polaroid have 3 styles aimed squarely at the glasses wearer. It’s all on the Polaroid Eyewear website under 3d collections.