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jed101 writes "I just stumbled upon this news release by Sharp introducing a 3D monitor that doesn't require special glasses. The technology was devised for high end medical instuments and such but this could be the gamers new dream toy."
How is this going to work with my one good eye?
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Is this the same technology that has been around on Sharp 3D Notebook LCD's since last year and just brought to the desktop market, or are there any hardware advances?
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Gamers, what about reviewers of *ahem* adult entertainment material?
I want to see the 3D in action.
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How does this compare to exsisting autostereographic monitors? Is producing the devise cheaply the hurdle or is it software that will push it?
The first thing it will be used for is the pornography industry.
This isn't anything new. It's been around for quite awhile in fact, being made by the X3D coporation.
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The world has been deprived of 3d goatse for too long.
Leela: "Hold still: I don't have good depth perception!"
That aside. It would have been nice to see even a 2D picture of this monitor at work.
I suppose Id will have to release a special Doom 3D for those with l33t enough bank balances to afford one. Talk about getting into the game...
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. . . but this could be the gamers new dream toy.
I think you mean wet dream. But hey, if you wanna drop $1500 on a LCD (yay dead pixels) monitor so you can 'be better at video games', kudos to you.
Oh btw, it has a 25ms response time, not quite high-end gaming material.
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The article was a bit short on detail... the spec sheet is here (thanks Google)
It's 15", 1024x768
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Talk about really getting into the game. Some people already have enough problems with reality.
Not as much as it sucks to be blind in two eyes.. Or hell, to not be blind at all, and have to get 3D fat porn popup ads on one of these monitors.. eek!
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First you can order your 3D keyboard, and now you can buy a 3D monitor. Along with the instructions on how to make a 3D mouse that were posted a few weeks ago, you could have a pretty interesting setup. All you might need is some sort of 3D printer, like one of those prototyping machines.
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Am I the only one getting some /. deja vu here?
No.
Sharp announces 3D laptop
PC Magazine Review's Sharp's 3D Notebook
The only difference, they talked about laptops. Now apparently it's on the desktops. But since they're talking about 3D Monitors it shouldn't matter...
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I saw it at ComicCon! Or maybe it was E3. But I think it was ComicCon. Anyway, it was kind of nifty, but you had to be right in front of it for it to work well. I have pretty shitty depth perception to begin with (although I can see those Magic Eye things great... go figure), but it was neat. It was hard to imaging a great application though, because it felt like looking at one of those little lenticular things, and it was kind of an effort for me to keep the 3D in view. The monitors (a laptop and a PC monitor) were just showing stills, not moving images, so I can't evaluate that, and also they were on a table and I was standing, so I was not at all at an optimum viewing angle (I had to crouch down, which is not a super sustainable posture at which to evaluate a monitor).
Dude, I think I can see my house from here.
when you use this 3-D monitor to view 3-D representations of web statistics? Do you dive into a Hawking Hole?
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As long as its female only porn. None of this mixed stuff. Its bad enough trying to ignore men in 2D, I sure as hell don't want to see a large penis flying towards me.
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A new mod for Doom3 utilizing this monitor will enable you to see total darkness in 3D!
More 3D displays to come
Future of Visual Gadgets Rolled Out
PC Magazine Reviews Sharp's 3D Notebook
Sharp to Sell 3D laptop for $3299
and many more right here.
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ATi will get off their asses and add stereoscopic rendering to their drivers. Until then, this is useless to ATi owners, since as far as I can tell it relies on left and right framebuffers, like the shutter glasses do.
There's been quite a bit of griping on rage3d.com over this issue, and ATi's unwillingness to do anything about it.
Gaming would be hit or miss, some games look awesome with the glasses, some dont. Graphics hacks which look great on a 2D monitor look lame in 3D.
Picture a driving game, where roadside signs fly past you.. Rather than properly rendering them in 3D, they're just sprites that expand as they're "closer". Rendered in real 3D, they look like some screwed up floating box that expands and shrinks..
Basically, for the game to look right, everything has to be rendered in 3D. Which is less of a problem these days, with the power that's in the average PC.
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3d monitor? big whoop. Wont be useful for me.
What I want to see is a 3d hologram platform/table. That would revolutionize display technology forever. We could play Star Wars chess. We could watch sporting events like baseball, hockey and football while really seeing the entire field. And think of the video games you could play on it... oh yeah.
Also cool would be a display that shows a different picture depending on the angle of viewing. With just one television in the room you can have one person watching a dvd, another playing a video game and yet another channel surfing. Depending on where you are in relation to the screen in the room changes what you see, and everyone gets their own remote. Far superior to buying multiple displays.
A 3d display like this one really isn't that revolutionary or useful for me.
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from the PDF spec:
If your software supports stereoscopic viewing with 3D glasses, then it will
probably work with the LL-151-3D monitor. This is because the graphics cards
manufacturers who support stereo with glasses have updated their drivers to
support the Sharp 3D display technology. To ensure the most up to date
compatibility, check www.sharp3d.com for the most up to date list of graphics
cards and driver software supporting the LL-151-3D monitor.
Note that the LL-151-3D monitor will only display 3D images when the
software is written to create stereoscopic display output. The LL-151-3D
display will not automatically convert standard graphics output to stereoscopic
output.
Also stereoscopic viewing is only supported at a resolution of 1024x768. 3D
visualization will not work correctly if the display resolution is set to any other
value.
Most of the games out there that use OpenGL or DirectX can rely on stereographic support from video card drivers and such. This is already used with 3D glasses, and I doubt there's any need to change much of that when switching to a monitor.
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then theres some details on the technology.
hmmmm, I fail to see how this could run at 'full speed' given that for every 3d technology (save volumetric displays obv) you need to compute twice as many scenes (left eye & right eye independently) in order to be able to display things correctly, which will end up possibly halving your framerate... although, given that UT2004 is much more CPU limited than video-limited, maybe in this particular case the performance hit is much less than that.
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I'm waiting for the first 4-D monitor!
Then I can see how this DOOM level is going to end before I spend all that time playing it.
Several years ago at the Northwestern they showed a 70s porno film in 3D. I think it starred John Holmes. I showed up to see it, but so did a thousand other people at a 500 seat lecture hall.
Can they convert the old red/blue 3D films into this new technology?
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You sure that isn't a breast enhancement commercial?
I closed my right eye and moved my head back and forth as fast as I could, and now Slashdot seems to be floating in front of my monitor!
I also am having cold shakes and I think I may have suffered a stroke. So this method isn't perfect but it could agggghhhhh....
Wow dude, are you really so insecure about your sexuality that you can't stand seeing male actors in porn?
I would think it would be easier to create 3D display technology for one-eyed individuals than for people with two eyes.
For people with two functioning eyes there are three major depth cues: stereovision, focus, and attenuation. With one eye you still have focus and attenuation, but no stereovision. (You also have parallax as the eye is moving, but this isn't as helpful.) So a one-eyed person doesn't rely on stereovision at all to gauge depth.
Notice that it is only the stereovision which is hard to simulate with a display device -- software could be written to simulate focal blur and distance attenuation, and since these are the only depth cues available to people with a single eye, this should be a pretty convincing representation of a 3D scene.
If you're having a problem view 3D images, you could be stereoblind. It's very rare to have it, and most people don't realize they do because stereoblindness doesn't affect things like image perception, nor is it useful at 100+ feet. It's typically only caused by infantile strabismus. If you're that interested, tell your optomotrist to check you for it next time you go in. They quit checking it routinely because there isn't anything they can do about it. Sorry, I was a Psychology major and was really interested in perception.
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For $150 you buy a Sharp XL52 Head Mount for the monitor. Strap the chrome and black cage over your head and attach the screen to the two rods that permanently fix the screen at 9" from your eyes but keep it aligned with any head movements.
Of course, you then have the problem of weak neck muscles...
For those with weak lower backs, for $200, there is the Sharp ZD12 Back Brace. Strap the chrome and black corset around your waste and...
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