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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."
Can someone explain to me a little better what a 3D display is exactly? I dont get it. As far as I'm concerned, my monitor already does 3D.
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Talk of 3D screens always make me think back to the failed Nintendo VirtuaBoy. It gave you glocoma (Yes, you can smoke pot legaly, but that's beside the point.)
People don't want to watch TV/use a computer on a peripheral device. They want to do it sitting back in a comfy chair.
While objects in the background do not pose problems, viewing objects in the foreground can cause the eyes to shift back and forth rapidly.
The main reason I wear glasses is by using a poor quality monitor for about 6 years, since the pixels jiggle my eyes would constantly refocus. Hopefully, they can fix this to some extent...
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I work for a company that creates software for the scientific community. You'd be surprised how many customers use our OpenGL-based 3D molecular modelling solution using stereo-3D display devices of various kinds (most often they use high-end shutter glasses). They would be all over this type of technology.
I've heard that future versions of windows will escape the standard 2 dimensional desktop and add a 3D element to the GUI. Will these be the types of displays it will use? and how can they code for a 3D GUI without having a device to use it with? Or was it just 3D-looking on a standard 2D display.. ideas?
John Hancock
You've got to be kidding. You're telling me you can't think of countless applications for painlessly and naturally being able to view something in 3D? How about checking out an item on EBay and being able to look at it from any angle? 3D videoconferencing? How about a 3D user interface where you can look "behind" things? 3D porn! 3D movies! Hell, even with just games... I think that'd be a bit more than 1% of users.
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And best of all, this might finally give Slashdot some real depth.
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I'm not saying it might not be usefull in the same applications it's usefull in now, but untill I can use one for 6 hours with no eyestrain, I don't think I want one.
UT2003/3D would be pretty damn cool, though...
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Seriously though, 3D displays are extremely useful for a variety of applications, from architecture (actual 3D renderings that you can actually walk around and see) to medicine (detailed and accurate 3D MRI imaging).
Of course, this particular article deals with 3D for entertainment purposes, so of course I have to mention the most probable use for 3D displays, which is 3D pr0n (in case you didn't catch the 50 or so other posts making the same exact joke).
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Cool tech, two LCDs seperated by a screen rather than glasses, but the eye strain problem seems to be a killer. Think of all the problems with eye strain from a regular monitor (ergonomics, hysteria to some degree, possibly law suits).
The CNN and news.com.com articles were a little short on details, the each eye recieving a seperate image makes me think that the alignment of the two screens is horizontally side by side, rather than one behind the other with a slight offset.
I could've missed something however.
Anyway, I seem to remember a projection based holo game (was some kinda wierd space western) I played in the arcade in the early 90's, it used various projectors onto various pieces of glass to generate a 3D image (and looked pretty good if I recall). Isn't there better tech out there for true 3D rather than a flatscreen LCD?
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This type of thinking also strikes me as very "640kb is enough-ish". Just because there isn't an immediate valid use for somthing doesn't mean it's a toy for a privelaged few.
My patience is infinite, my time is not.
We've been working with 3D video and 3D live web cams for the past few years, and the biggest obsticle is the need to wear "funny glasses".
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Speaking of which, I'm working on a 3D UI paradigm right now, along with a prototype replacement for the "File Cabinet" based file system. Technology is finaly catching up to what I've been wanting to do for 15 years. There are others doing the same thing. All that has been keeping these projects back is lack of hardware.
Does anyone remember FELIX 3D displays? I know they can't be used on cell phones, but at least they work...
Dimentions Technologies Incorporated have been selling 3D monitors (without the glasses!) for years. When they first came out they got very favorable reviews, but the major quip was with the price. Well, the prices have come down significantly, and you can get a 15" True 3D flat panel monitor, for $1700, and an 18" for $5000. 32-Bit color, resolutions up to 1024x768 (for the smaller ones), and 1280 x 1024 for the big ones, that's not such a bad deal. Also, it goes from 2D monitor to 3D at the toch of a button. Not bad if you ask me.
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One word: cellphone
Actually that might be two words.
Anyways, in Japan they ALREADY are taking advantage of this technology - you can take 3D pictures on your photo-capable cellphones, print them out, etc etc. I don't know how well it works because I havn't seen it in action yet, but it has sure been in commercials a lot lately.
Don't think of 3D as a real 3D like "volumetric" but more like those magic-eye things - where it's an illusion of 3D, in the other words, you don't get more data (i.e. you never see more of the sides of the 3D thing by changing your perspective, trying to look at the display from the sides), but the object appears 3D, fooling your eyes.
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Yes, it happens to battlefield and trauma surgeons all the time. Besides, pseudo 3D maps from technology like MRI's have been used for a long time, true 3D would obviously be better.
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This technology sounds like a more complicated (and expensive) version of the already-complicated and expensive LCD technology we have. Furthermore, it doesn't sound like the technology will work well with the OLED's that are just starting to come out.
Given a choice between "3D" LCD and 2D OLED, I'll take OLED, thank you very much.
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