They may hint that the 2012 Olympics will be in 3D, however as they are not an Olympic broadcaster it's only speculation on their part as they have no way of knowing. Also if it is going to be "glasses-based in some form." it will likely be an epic failure.
The glasses part is really up to the TV to figure out. It really shouldn't matter to the datastream or the decoder box about what mechanism the TV constructs a 3D image from the data. The only time glasses might come into it is if the box were to offer some kind of legacy 3D processing using red/blue type glasses for the 99.99999% of people who don't have a 3D capable television.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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They may hint that the 2012 Olympics will be in 3D, however as they are not an Olympic broadcaster it's only speculation on their part as they have no way of knowing. Also if it is going to be "glasses-based in some form." it will likely be an epic failure.
The glasses part is really up to the TV to figure out. It really shouldn't matter to the datastream or the decoder box about what mechanism the TV constructs a 3D image from the data. The only time glasses might come into it is if the box were to offer some kind of legacy 3D processing using red/blue type glasses for the 99.99999% of people who don't have a 3D capable television.