Sony 3D GlassesFor those of you unable to fork out silly amounts of money for a eye-ball melting 3D TV, Sony has unveiled the next best thing.

A ‘head-mounted 3D display’ (pictures courtesy of Endgadget) was revealed at CES 2011, which features two Sony panels that will allow you to play 3D games and watch 3D movies and TV without a 3D TV.

Each panel features high quality, high contrast pictures for the left and right eye which basically means there’s no confusion between the two.

Sony’s Deputy President Hiroshi Yoshioka unsurprisingly raved about the experience, with a slightly wife-enraging diatribe on how awesome Gran Turismo 5 looks when played with the goggles.

“As a big gamer myself, I couldn’t be excited more than when I first played Gran Turismo 5 with this head-mounted display because nobody, not even my wife, could interrupt me so that I could get a higher score,” he said.

While there are currently only a few 3D games on the market (parts of Tron: Legacy and Batman: Arkham Asylum are the most notable), all the major developers have plans to release more in the future.

But with glass-less 3D TVs just around the corner, is Sony’s new invention redundant before its even released?