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Samsung's Odyssey 3D gaming monitor brings glasses-free 3D to the masses

Samsung is bringing back 3D gaming with its new monitor and you won't need any glasses to enjoy it

Manufacturers invested heavily and then quickly abandoned 3D technology, but Samsung is bringing it back with its new Odyssey 3D gaming monitor – and you don’t need to wear any glasses. Like the Nintendo 3DS, which created a convincing glasses-free 3D effect over a decade ago, Samsung’s monitor promises to deliver lifelike 3D images from 2D content using a lenticular lens on the front panel combined with its innovative light field display (LFD) technology. Glasses-free 3D has always been the end goal, and if the Samsung Odyssey can eliminate the usual problems that plagued 3D content in the past – crosstalk, ghosting, a narrow sweet spot – this could be my dream gaming monitor.

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