This configuration ensures that the display's footprint remains one size—essential for everyday use cases, like those listed above—but can flex to accommodate both 2D and 3D visuals on demand.

While volumetric displays are undeniably cool, they're also still quite crude and can't hold a candle to the fidelity of 2D screens or augmented reality or virtual reality display technology.

However, for an 85-in. display, it tends to come up short. To clarify, 8K offers plenty of resolution for 2D displays, but not so much for 3D. 8K 3D display.

The creation, display and manipulation of objects in the computer in two dimensions. Drawing programs and 2D CAD programs allow objects to be drawn on an X-Y scale as if they were drawn on paper ...

3D computer graphics (in contrast to 2D computer graphics) are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing ...

Researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz have developed a 3D display which can also be viewed in 2D without glasses, and without the blurred effect caused by overlapping images.

Apple’s patent application for this tech includes graphics depicting it working in iPad-like devices, and you could see how this would be effective for expanding the range of possibilities for ...