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Future of Visual Gadgets Rolled Out
unassimilatible writes "A television sewn into your shirt sleeve. A dashboard screen to monitor the kids in the back seat. A 3-D computer monitor sharp enough to make a hardcore gamer's heart stop - or help a surgeon start one. The gizmo-packed exhibition hall at the Society for Information Display's international symposium offers a tantalizing vision of what's to come, AP reports (with some cool pics)."
Whatever happened to just looking in the rear view mirror and trying to beat your kids with one arm while driving with the other...jeez...take all the fun out of it why don't ya...
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But what would you use a tv on your jeans for?
In any case I can't wait to get one of those 3D screens.
One thing I would like to know is what would happen when you use the screen without the eye-tracking? Wouldn't it go out of focus or have an unnatural appearance when your head moves.
Hopefully these obstacles will be overcome soon.
"In perhaps a year, SeeReal hopes it can offer a consumer version - ideal for video game enthusiasts - for about $500."
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Oh yeah baby, make my heart stop. A great monitor is a gaming necessity. Sure, everything else is important, but if what you are staring at sucks, the rest of the computer is going to seem ugly too.
Ah this explains why all sci-fi space-ships have CRT monitors - around 2020 when lifting things into orbit cost almost nothing, new ships were built using ultra-cheap CRTs that everyone was throwing out to replace with all this new stuff. But that still doesnt explain why spock had to look down that blue screen-scope thing...
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One of the sublinks from the article is for Wireless Monitors. While I didn't immediately see a practical use for such, it occurred to me that it would be an awesome way to reduce clutter on the desk. I'm there, where do I pay?
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You need a very long arm to reach the kids in the back of a minivan. Trust me, I know. Instead, I just shut off the power to their video game/DVD player when they start yelling at each other. Warn once, second time the power goes off.
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If the eMagin gadget is sold cheap enough, it would be a great solution for portable media devices...
Combine the eMagin with a video iPod, and I'll certainly use one during long trips on planes, trains and automobiles. Or even in bed.
The best mode to read, as anyone would agree is paper-based, be it a book or a newspaper.
The cheap displays that can be inserted into the newspapers with short clips for the different news items or some illustration (in case of a book) that start getting played as you flip through different sheets would be ultra-cool.
(some spielberg movie already had a newspaper like this i guess)
When would I (/can expect to) get a copy of such books/newspapers?
Just suspend everything from ceiling leaving ~15 cm distance between desk. Looks cool and nothing on your desk except your mouse and coffee cup.
I even suspended the PC using chains, it's realy cool, you can sit on it and use it as a swing.
T'Pol uses a blue screen-scope thing. She must be into it too. Mrow.
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We'll assume Tuvok is an except hmm?
Even better, install an airtight parition so you can cut off the oxygen when they act up. They'll either start to behave in exchange for a precious breath of life, or anoixa will eventually shut them up anyway.
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"... sharp enough to make a hardcore gamer's heart stop - or help a surgeon start one."
Why would we bother restarting a hardcore gamer's heart?
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A childhood peppered with 3D glasses and stereoscopic dot images has done some exceedingly funny things with my eyes -- I often find myself looking at shelves in bookshops and chemists' and see the items on the shelves popping out at me.
The reason? My brain has been trained to ignore the naturally-trained link between the focussing distance of the eyes' lenses and the angle my eyes are pointing at (binocular triangulation).
This can occur whenever there is any repeating pattern and is extremely disorientating. (And sometimes headache inducing.)
Some people were physically sick when they tried to use Virtual Reality (remember that?).
Now, I know they are adding some levels of variable focus into these things, but these just don't match the natural range the eye focuses to.
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The military is looking into using BDUs that adapt to the invironment to better conceal the soldiers. Sort of James Bondish.
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I've been seeing announcements of the next hot
display thing coming out of SID for 15 years.
I think people were starting to tout OLED
and flexible displays and electronic ink
about 10 years ago, and they're just now
really gaining any momentum. Anybody remember
FEDs?
For some reason it takes an incredibly long time
for these technologies to reach what I'd call
mainstream volumes - maybe because CRT and
TFT LCD have such a head start.
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I was not raised on a steady diet of 3D - yeah, I played around with it - still do. My first computer, at age 10, was a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with 16K - so that gives you a hint at my age, and where I was with dot stereographs, etc.
That doesn't mean I didn't play around with such things, I did. I have seen the same effects as you have (ie, repeating patterns of items, like wallpaper or a stretch phone cord - that when I look at them on occasion will cross and create a "pseudo-3D" effect) - but I think this is really a natural tendancy of the eye-brain, and not anything having to do with prior 3D exposure. There is also the special "chromograph" 3D system (cool colors, like blue recede, hot colors, like orange, pop forward - used mainly in the "Solar: Man of the Atom" series of 3D comic books) that normally needs glasses, but at times I see the 3D effect without them. However, this isn't anything new - artists have known about this for many years, and have used the effect in their art for precisely this purpose (the glasses on add to the effect).
That isn't to say that VR HMDs and such aren't bad for the eyes, etc - some of the older HMDs (heck, even some current ones) are focused wierd, and your eyes would focus on the plane of the LCD (even if it looked further away), which was typically only a few inches from your eyes. The better HMDs are focused "at infinity" which alleviates this somewhat, but they still aren't good to wear for long periods of time (> 30 mins is considered bad). It is also known that altering perception of things over very long periods (ie, if you wore special glasses to flip everything upside down for a week) will change how the brain processes the information (in the above example, it was found your brain eventually flips everything over right side up - then, after a week of being like this, they took the glasses off the volunteers, and everything was upside down - took another week for it to go back to normal - crazy!) - but, as noted, it takes a long period for it to happen...
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A 3-D computer monitor sharp enough to make a hardcore gamer's heart stop
now come on... we all know for which kind of "hardcore action" this will be used...
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