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3D Display a Little Bit Closer to Reality
arielsebbag writes "According to CNET, Several high-tech companies including Sony and Sanyo have officially unveiled a consortium to create technical and safety standards for bringing three-dimensional displays to desktops, laptops and cell phones. They are probably focusing their efforts on the technology developed by Sharp. It looks like they are actually good to go and hopefully the 3D display will hit the market by 2004."
Oh great... Like it's not annoying enough when I'm trying to have dinner with a friend and his stupid girlfriend calls him to nag him for 20 minutes in the middle of it... Now he'll actually get totally engaged in the experience of humoring her and completely forget I'm there. Isn't technology wonderful?
Please God, let me find my blue hat with the red trim. (Frances Farmer)
3D BSODs.
Just what I always wanted.
It will never happen! Remember that no technology becomes popular without being embraced by the porn industry and how the heck will the porn industry work with 3D displays?!? It's pointless to think about it I mean it's completely and utterly ridiculo...
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ummmm nevermind
I stole this Sig
Dude, time to come out of the closet, maybe?
And I bet the motivation for the engineers was 3D pr0n boobies.
The friend I'm thinking of is quite straight, though.
Please God, let me find my blue hat with the red trim. (Frances Farmer)
So what you're saying is that 3D pr0n would use... "DirectXXX"?
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Four words: "Blue Cube of Death".
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
Finally, we'll be able to use 3dwm in its full glory !
theefer
...in the article is that, to achieve the illusion of depth, the user must continuously blink one eye, then the other, exactly 30 times per second.
SIG FAULT
"In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user. You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total.loser." -Weird Al
Thank goodness they are outlining some safety standards for there displays. I sure wouldn't want to zoom in on a pixilated 3D model and have a nipple poke me in the eye.
When I was at school, my friends and I devised exactly this - our unit of pain was called a "stang" and was measured as the amount of pain deriving from being burnt alive at the stake.. of course, this means that for more everyday painful stimuli, you'd probably have to measure in microstangs, or picostangs or something