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Other 3D Display Technologies3D television/3D Display

3D television (3DTV) is television that conveys depth perception to the viewer .

Most modern 3D television sets use an active shutter 3D system or a polarized 3D system and some are autostereoscopic (without the need of glasses).

The stereoscope was first invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1838

It showed that when two pictures are viewed stereoscopically, they are combined by the brain to produce 3D depth perception.

Stereoscopic 3D television was demonstrated for the first time on 10 August 1928 by John Logie Baird (Inventor of TV)