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It's almost like having a digital, three-dimensional companion on your desk.

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Glasses-free 3D has always felt like a luxury I could admire from afar. Those screens were built for design studios , not smaller desks like mine. But Sony’s new version is small enough to sit beside my keyboard, and I’m genuinely excited.

The company has unveiled the ELF-MN1, a 6-inch display that makes 3D characters and avatars look like they’re coming out of the screen without any special glasses or a headset. It plugs into a phone or PC with one USB-C cable, and that’s pretty much it (via Sony ).

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How does the ELF-MN1 show 3D without glasses?

The secret is eye tracking. Sensors follow your eyes and redraw the image in real time . Each eye sees a different view (similar to wearing differently colored eyeglasses), and your brain reads it as depth.…