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)."

Comments

Sounds Good

[lachlan76]

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.

Re:Sounds Good

[Anonymous Coward]

One thing I would like to know is what would happen when you use the screen without the eye-tracking?

If it includes headtracking then it would be possible to have holograms fixed at thier location. You could have a virtual objects (including TVs!) in your room positioned anywhere you want!

babelfished the marketing speak...

[Anonymous Coward]

"In perhaps a year, SeeReal hopes it can offer a consumer version - ideal for video game enthusiasts - for about $500."

translation: we need VCs to give us lots of money because all of the executives' Porsches are at least a year old

Re:Whatever happened to...

[WormholeFiend]

why doesnt Slashdot have a +1 Scary mod?

Just yesterday I was riding with a friend in his car when we catch up to another car driving erratically in front of us...

We both thought the driver was drunk, but when we got a chance to pass him, we saw a couple of kids bouncing on the back seat and the driver was doing just what you described.

When would we see these displays?

[vijaya_chandra]

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?

Re:80" plasma on the way

[Terminal Saint]

I know nothing about it, but it's my understanding that the high price of plasma displays is in large part caused by the fact that the manufacturing process is pretty hit and miss. For every one that comes out right, there's a couple that don't, so there is room for the price to come down eventually, provided they manage refine the process. But again, I don't have any source on this, I just seem to remember hearing it...