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3D/2D switchable LCD monitor from Sharp

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-can-see-clearly-now dept.

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk writes "Sharp just came up with an LCD monitor that allows you to switch between 3D ( no glasses ) and 2D view. Wanna play quake and have a slight heart attack?" Now thats what I'm talking about!

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  1. I'm seeing double! by Bonker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh wait, it's not the monitor, it's just the double post on Slashdot!

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  2. EEEK! by CoolVibe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh sorry... that green color of slashdot just LEAPED at me...

  3. What??? by iplayfast · · Score: 5, Funny
    No SCREEN SHOTS!

  4. 3D Games Suck! by Drunken+Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, they did a few years back anyway. I remember my friend challenged me to a game of Rise of The Triad in a booth at some theme park. The main attraction was that to see the game you got to wear these fancy looking 3D goggles. It was something like $3 a person, so I figured what the hell.

    That was the worst first person shooter experience I've ever had. Maybe the goggles weren't focused right, but I got incredibly dizzy from playing it and ended up not being able to do much at all. Maybe a slower game like Icewind Dale II would be more playable in 3D, but then, what would the point of that be?

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  5. Applying for a second mortgage now... by goldspider · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...because that's probably the only way I'm going to be able to afford one of these. Now what do I tell my bank...?

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  6. more info by Dizzo · · Score: 5, Funny

    For more information, check out:
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/27/162423 9&mode=thread&tid=137

  7. Applications other than Quake by hey! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can think of one really cool application. Maptech makes a product called terrain navigator which shows USGS topos in 3D using the standard 1950s 3D movie style glasses. However, dedicating the color dimension to getting a 3D effect means the information densities you can get on the screen are somewhat lessened. Governments often spend a lot of money to get higher resolution elevation data. I know of several counties in FL that have 1m LIDAR for their entire county for flood control. Combine this with color aerial photography and you have a kick-ass visiualization system.

    The technique used in the display reminds me of the old 3D post cards.

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  8. The cool thing is... by EchoMirage · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The cool thing about this product is that it's being marketed by a big company, namely Sharp, and not some no-name startup that promises to "revolutionize the world" but never gets its product to market. There's a much higher chance of actual success when a big company like Sharp is involved. From the site, they've also done the following:
    In 1973, Sharp was the first to successfully mass produce LCDs for use in electronic calculators. Since then, we have actively promoted innovation in display technologies, going from simple numeric displays to dot-matrix graphic displays, moving from monochrome to color displays, and on to full-motion video displays.
    Cool stuff.
  9. Sharp probably make the best TFTs by wackybrit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is semi-ontopic, but I wanted to say that Sharp make what are probably the best TFTs out there right now, so when this screen hits the market, it'll probably be a stunner.

    Sharp were also the first to produce 16" TFTs (one of which I own) which while double the price of the cheapest 15" displays, have a response rate of *half* what normal TFTs have, sRGB profiling, dual inputs (VGA/DVI), and a 1280x1024 resolution.. compared to the awful 1024 of most smaller TFTs. The 18" Sharp TFTs are pretty much the same, but larger, and oh so sweet. The 16" TFT is 104dpi. With ClearType, that leads to 300dpi (horizontal) goodness on text.

    Another thing Sharp has pioneered is 'slim bezel'. Most Sharp TFTs have a bezel of about 1cm, compared to the horrid 3cm+ bezels of most TFTs.

    Sharp are the kings of TFT (except, perhaps, IBM who produces those 300dpi dowickeys), and anything they produce has got to be hot.

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  10. Re:Unlikely by ryanvm · · Score: 4, Funny

    by your reasoning, when I close my eyes, my brain should boil

    Looks like you need to add "inability to detect jokes" to your geek code. ;-)