Harrod's Gets Sony's Personal 3D Viewer Early

Sony's Personal 3D Viewer has gone on sale a couple of weeks early at one of London's most iconic stores.

We first got wind of the Sony Personal 3D Viewer back in August. Unveiled by Sony in Tokyo, Japan, the high-tech specs boast a pair of 3D-capable 0.7-inch (diagonal) Ultra-Small High Definition Color OLED panels that receive input from an HDMI source like a Blu-ray player, a PC, Sony’s PlayStation 3 console and other 3D hardware and media.

To the viewer, Sony's visor offers both 2D and 3D content up close and personal, spread out across a theater-like virtual screen, or rather, a large screen approximating 150-inches from 12-feet away (750-inch virtual screen, virtual viewing distance approximately 65-feet away). Sony has also adapted its original virtual surround signal processing technology to deliver the acoustical equivalent of a 5.1 channel surround-sound system. All of this means you can catch the latest 3D or 2D flicks without bothering anyone else that happens to be in the room.

The peripheral is set for availability in all Sony stores by the end of October or beginning of November, but Pocket-Lint reports that Harrod's has gotten some early stock. If you're desperate to get your hands on a pair (or just really eager to take them for a test drive in the shop), head on down to Harrod's before they're all gone. Just make sure you're of age; Sony said this past summer that it wouldn't recommend the device for children under 16.

"Considering the protection of the growth and development, we ask children (age 15 and younger) to refrain from using this product," the company said. "In any rough or unstable environment with a propensity for travel sickness to occur (such as in a vehicle), we ask our customers to refrain from using the device."