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Not necessarily.
We had a Sharp prototype for a 3D mini tablet (WAY before the iPhone) in 2003-2004, This was the days of the final Palm Pilots and Sony Vaio! Turns out this ran LINUX, and had a lenticular display (i.e. amped version of what the Nintendo 3DS is/was)
You could place this on a table top and watch an Anime 3D movie floating above the screen. From any angle!
This was truly the same (real though) effect of the 3D chess in the original Star Wars, or the Princess Leah "ObiWan help me" thing. Sadly unlike the movie, No one threatened to rip my arm off, so the effect was not as powerful!
At the time (and still) it was totally unprecedented in commercial products.
With the advancements in processing and display technology and sensors available, it is entirely possible that this company has indeed resurrected that concept (or Rediscovered it)
Best of my knowledge, only two prototypes from Sharp ever existed, one in Japan, the other with Sharp USA. I had that one for about a week.
Still consider that one of the coolest bits of tech I have used (prior to HoloLens)! Which we were fortunate enough to get in on last year. And still find the most popular of all the 3D things we have in the lab.
The pocket 3D is a very very cool thing.
About same size as a small modern phone. Very Very cool!
This will definitely be a big draw for "some" games and for face to face communication potentially.
BUT stop and think about what the military has though!! Scary Scary!!
The Sharp "thing" (never had a name for it from them) was sort of like holding the future in your hand! HAH
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