Glassless

At this year's show, a few manufacturers are demonstrating "glassless" screens that do away with that requirement but have other issues. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2011)

The TV boasts a screen with a "glassless" front with a louvre structure, which not only eliminates reflections off-axis but gives the set a dynamic contrast of 5,000,000: 1. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A big issue for glassless 3D has been making the sets larger, something Toshiba is obviously doing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A row of glassless windows gaped from the side like pits. ❋ Elizabeth Woods (2011)

Quickly, she turned her back on Zoe and walked over to one of the glassless windows. ❋ Elizabeth Woods (2011)

Sony aims to avoid those viewing-angle issues by confining glassless viewing to smaller screens, such as those on the video cameras it introduced at its press conference Wednesday evening. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2011)

The photo shows the principal issue with glassless 3-D, sometimes also called "autostereoscopic": Those strips of tape on the floor mark the viewing angles at which you can see that extra dimension. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2011)

Toshiba, which demonstrated a glassless system in October, has a large section of its exhibit devoted to this technology. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2011)

Sony also showed off prototypes of a 3D visor you could wear to watch 3D content on a plane, as well as a portable Blu-ray player that would join those cameras in being "glassless." ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2011)

It's working on making glassless 3D work on full-sized TVs too. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2011)

Toshiba also showed me a laptop with a glassless 3-D screen, in this case built on two high-definition display panels layered atop each other. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2011)

For nine blocks empty buildings stood staring out of glassless windowpanes. ❋ Alia Malek (2009)