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Replace Your Windows With LCD Panels
hoagaboom writes "I had particularly ugly neighbors and a lot of LCD panels laying around, so why not build a
Virtual Window? I really wanted to do full motion video, but PCI bandwidth is standing in my way. So with multiple PCIE vid cards, any suggestions on how to split a full motion video stream in Linux?"
Hook up a webcam and put it right outside.
Seeing as this was slow to load in the mysterious future, here's a coral cache of the link...
Sorry, I already replaced my Windows with Linux.
SCNR
This can't be right...TFA contains an article of a (presumably) real, live, breathing girl!
/ducks
What have you done with my Slashdot??
I want to see the same concept executed using 30" Apple Cinema displays and have video of birds smashing into the "glass", like you're looking out of a skyscraper window.
-Randy
Are there any LCD panels out there that are translucent? That would be the next logical step. Imagine being able to change the brightness of a window by sending certain signals to the LCD. Plus this would produce the natural light everyone needs.
US businesses that currently accept chip and PIN/signature
Now he can have some porn chick neighbors!
Certainly an impressive undertaking but somehow it just doesn't sit right. The image depth is what my mind would be questionning. I mean if you don't actually feel like it's really out there then it may as well just be a nice photograph that you've glued over your windowpanes.
Most inside cabins in cruise ships have fake windows, i.e. a picture that looks like a window that looks like you're looking at the sea.
So this "invention" might be a good way to relay actual sea views in those cabins.
Uselessful technology (Air-Charged
If nothing else, go look at this just to see the panels installed and "lit up."
Whoah!
Simply Amazing!
34 posts, and a person's personal site hasn't gone up in flames yet?
The hell with the LCD panels, I want to know his ISP!
If you simply have multiple PCIE cards in the same system, X.ORG and Xinerama will allow you to do this by building a 'desktop' of four screens - you can then playback 'fullscreen' video across all four.
The dual-head functionality of some cards could let you get away with just 2 cards as well.
One drawback is that as far as I know, OpenGL is not implemented in Xinerama yet (not such a worry for video tho).
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Dont burn your house down by rigging this up in a way where 120V power cords are running inside your walls. (I realize the page author does not have this.) If you use 120V wiring inside a wall that is not in an NEC approved manner, and your house burns down, you might be liable.
This includes not being able to have an outlet mounted inside a wall nearby the frame, in a permanently inaccessible location. No, the fact that you can remove drywall to access it does not make it accessible. Now, maybe if the entire frame swung open on recessed hinges to a finished space with a normally mounted outlet, OK. But best ask the inspector.
Many people will say "Ahh but this is low voltage power wiring" so, there isn't much danger. True, for DVI video signalling, but what about powering the backlighting?
But when the voltage is low, the current is high, and the potential is still there to create heat.
For example. You've probably got some big-ass wires carrying 100 amp or 200 amp service into your house. But if you go out to the power pole, you'll see the transformer which feeds your big wires has a extremely tiny wire getting it's power from the overhead lines. At the high voltages of transmission lines, small wires easily carry the small currents. At the low voltages going into your house, big wires carry the larger currents. Whats the same? The amount of power being carried.
So never assume stuffing 12V cords through a wall is safe just because the voltage is so low. How much power is involved?
Who are you and how can I have your life?
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...