DTI Stereoscopic LCD Virtual Window Review

Octavian Busuioc wrote to us regarding a review of the DTI Stereoscopic LCD Virtual Window. Now there's a mouthful - but it's also a very nice LCD screen with that has full stereoscopic effect without shutter glasses. Good background information as well.

Comments

Re:These things are dangerous

[KFury]

Let me warn you right now: stereoscopic vision is not the future.

Uh, oh. I guess I'd better pluck one of my eyes out then! We (most of us, anyhow) do have two eyes, and used in conjunction, that is stereoscopic vision.

As for making it work well, any raver can tell you that, done correctly, stereophonic sound can actually disorient and make you dizzy, and we only get 10% of our sensory information from our ears. Naturally, goggles simply have to be made better.

There's a huge difference between stereo goggles and a stereoscopic display. The goggles have to make sure that the horizon and field of vision changes in realtime with the movement of your head. A 3D monitor or movie takes care of that automatically: You tilt your head, the image tilts. Not so with goggles, where you 'take the image with you.'

So while with current technology goggles may be disorienting, it's only a matter of time before the precision is there to 'fool' the senses into playing along. As for non-immersive displays, well, there's no problem.

Kevin Fox