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NEC to Introduce 3D Laptop Next Year?
Hoon Mihn Fao writes "For those of you for whom 2D laptops are not awesome enough, next year NEC is coming out with a 3D laptop. No, you don't have to wear those retro red and blue glasses, but the monitor is actually an LCD screen placed on top of a conventional monitor. The company is currently seeking gaming software companies to produce games for its technology. Each unit will cost an estimated $200 more than a conventional laptop."
NEC Corp. plans to market a laptop computer next year that can display 3-D images without requiring special glasses... The new laptop will feature a special liquid crystal display panel that is placed on top of a conventional screen. Users will be able to view digital photos of [sic] play online games with the 3-D image display or use the standard panel for viewing Web sites, Nikkei said. ... Mercury3D, a software company in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, will also provide a program that converts standard 2-D images to 3-D on the new laptop, Nikkei said.
How is this supposed to work? No glasses, a special LCD on top of a standard monitor. How do we get actual or simulated 3D out of this? If it doesn't provide two different perspectives to each eye (as shutter glasses do), presumably the LCD must project the 3D image into midair. And how does the software generate 3D from a 2D image? There isn't enough data in the source image to do this properly. I'm betting vaporware here.
Anyone have an insight?
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Forget about games. This could usher in a new golden era of pr0n.
but the monitor is actually an LCD screen placed on top of a conventional monitor.
A laptop with an LCD screen and a conventional monitor! How big and heavy is this thing going to be?
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And yet no images of the device...ironic some might say?
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As far as I can see, my laptop has height, width and depth. So it's 3D, right? Does that mean that we can expect thicker laptops in the future (that are of course more 3D than thin ultra portables we can see today?)
actually an LCD screen placed on top of a conventional monitor.This is a really clever idea. Now I can see how they managed to get that real 3D feel. Using a conventional CRT monitor in a laptop certainly adds some third dimension.
Now I can see what they are planning to do:
1. Use CRT monitor in a laptop2. CRT monitors are cheaper than LCD panels, but laptop with CRT is more 3D, so it can be more expensive than conventional thin ones
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4. PROFIT!!
It's important to note that the extra LCD screen is placed on top of conventional LCD display (check the article), not a CRT monitor, as the blurb suggests.
If it used a CRT monitor, it would hardly be a laptop, wouldn't it?
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What? Read the article? I didn't even read the post. Since when did have we slashdotters read past the title before posting?
For once, I RTFA. And what do I get? About 5 more words than the Slashdot blurb. No pictures, no nothing. That's it -- it's hearsay and conjecture from now on.
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Lenticular images
Remember those little stickers, covered with ridges, where you turn them and watch the image change to one of 5 or 6 possibilities? If a computer screen is covered with verticle ridges, you could control the flow of light to left and right eye from limited viewing angles.
Such a monitor would only work if the person's head was in certain positions.
Other technologies are possible which would allow the viewer to be in any position and orientation. Think tiny lenses instead of long ridges.
So the famous Windows "blue screen of death" will become the "blue cube of death"? ;-)
Introducing the NEW Microsoft 3D EULA; a list box of EULA text with a couple of buttons, oh, and picture of Bill reaching out to grab your nads.
3D Windows will be a whole new release packed with new features such as the
- 3D blue screen of death
- the 3D EULA (previously mentioned)
- the 3D Microsoft Wallet; reaches right into your pocket and actually installs itself!
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The new laptop will feature a special liquid crystal display panel that is placed on top of a conventional screen.
It's not a conventional monitor... We're talking about a laptop here. It's a conventional LCD screen. (In case you're wondering the difference, a monitor is a free-standing device, while a screen is attached to something.)
Basically, this is correct. Here in Japan, Sharp (at least) has been doing these for a while; my current keitai even has one! I don't know the grisly details offhand, but from what I can tell, there are two layers, each of which are angled towards one of the two eyes; displaying stereoscopic images, one eye's worth on each layer then gives you essentially the same result as those old red+blue+purple displays with the red-and-blue glasses. It's certainly not perfect, but it's an acceptable imitation.