3D Just for You, Wherever and Whenever

Watching TV isn't the family activity that it used to be. With smartphones, tablets, laptops and other screen choices, everyone can choose to watch what they want, even in the same room. While these small screens offer more content options, they don't recreate the cinema-like experience of a 50-inch TV and don't take advantage of the hottest TV technology, 3D.

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A new set of reasonably stylish specs called "Mybud" tries to fill this gap, offering personal content viewing on a 3D cinema scale.
Mybud uses the same sort of head-mounted display (HMD) technology that figher pilots get in their visors to recreate the experience of watching an enormous, 100-inch, full HD LCD TV from four meters away. (Engineers determined four meters to be a distance that prevents eye fatigue.) That qualifies as fully immersive.

Mybud can connect to most modern video sources, including laptops, DVD or BluRay players and game consoles via HDMI, as well as smartphones and tablets. It accepts both 2D and 3D content but also performs a near magical trick with standard 2D content. Like super high end TVs costing five to ten times as much, Mybud takes a dimensional leap, transforming regular 2D content for 3D viewing.

Though its not the only product of its kind (it follows competitors from Germany, America and Japan), it only weighs 78 grams, which is the lightest head-mounted display currently on sale. A few grams make a huge difference when watching a 2-and-a-half hour 3D movie like Avatar, as does the long-lasting lithium polymer battery. (Mybud can also charge your smartphone while you watch, so you never have to worry about a dead battery just as the Navi are about to triumph over their earthling invaders.)

The company behind Mybud is Accupix, which  provides its 3D technology to electronics giants like LG Electronics Inc. Accupix has already formed partnerships with game console manufacturers like Microsoft and is planning to collaborate with more smartphone and laptop makers. Beyond entertainment and smart devices, Accupix's technology is also being used for education, the military, healthcare and construction.

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Though KRW 549,000 (USD 500) price tag seems steep at first glance, it's a great deal cheaper than buying a 3D TV and gives you flexibility that you can't buy at any price. While a 50-inch LED 3D TV costs about $1,500, you can only watch it in a large room and can't move from place to place. With Mybud you can watch a TV with four times the screen real estate no matter where you are.

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