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Sharp 3D Monitor Next Year
dOxxx writes "Sharp is bringing out a 3D monitor next year that requires no special glasses. It took them one day to convert Quake to work with the monitor. They are already selling cellphones in Japan for the NTT DoCoMo network with scaled-down versions of the screen."
Would it really kill zdnet to include a picture with stories like this? I couldn't even find a link to the company the whole article was about. I can live w/ their obvious biases, but really, at least include a picture or at least a link to a picture.
Okay, so using an adjusted version of Quake doesn't count as being additional software? No additional software required seems a bit misleading in this case. Will we need a special patch for each new program? If so, who will offer/code these patches? The game developers or the monitor manufacturers?
free ipod? yeah.
3D UI's are useless for most tasks. In fact, it actually makes the interface worse. There have been tons of 3D UI's developed and they all suck. The problem is that other than being a neat trick, there is really nothing to be gained by having a 3D interface.
Now for 3D animation, modelling, etc., this LCD panel would be cool. The thing is, those programs already have 3D interfaces because that's a natural way of working with that data. A 3D word processor is pointless and stupid. When you write on real paper, it's a 2D interface.
Just because you can't think in 4D doesn't mean others can't.
Picture something that's 4D. Now stop it from moving.
Most folk who claim "special thinking ability" are just failing to communicate what they're talking about it. Or they don't understand the concept of multiple dimensions.
The world we live in is way more than 4D. The 4th demension is time.
The world we live in only has 4 dimensions. Oh, sure, there are 6-7 dimensions that makes THOSE up, but we have no way of percieving them or altering them. If we could, we've have found them a LONG time ago.
Granted I relize many people, maybe most, only think in 2D, how I don't know. I think in 3D all the time and add more D's as needed.
You're wasting thought processes in something that can't exist.
Most folk "think" in 2D+, which is how we can navigate. Sure, we _can_ move vertically, but not as easilly as we move horizontally or laterally.
I can't even write on paper without my mind visulizing the thickness of the letters.
Again, you're wasting thought process. Look at your computer monitor--it IS 2D, and a perceptive mind should realize THAT before trying to contemplate the micrometer depth of letters on paper.
that could really do the same SFII did in the 90's. Those monitor will cost lot more than consummer monitor for a long time but arcade could afford that (at the same time , why not revisit the price and put it back to 25cent again).
Virtua Fighter 5 would be perfect game to use that.