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Multi-layer LCD Displays

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the screw-alpha-channel-transparency dept.

Jmo writes "Puredepth has started to produce multi-layer LCD displays. They manipulate LCD technology so that one screen can be placed behind another for actual depth. This technology has not even come close to being fully taken advantage of but it is still very interesting and has many implications for the future. Their main product right now is a seventeen inch monitor, the MLD-3000. It is mainly targeted at medical and business fields but it could be used all over."

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  1. Re:3D by mattdm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you don't mind using polarized glasses- one eye vertical, one eye horizontal, then you only need two.

    You don't need glasses. I'm not sure about the actual LCD used in this thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's using the same technology Sharp uses in their laptop. I've seen the Sharp techology demoed and as someone who basically doesn't know anything about all of this, I was totally astounded.

    Luckily, Sharp conveniently explains how it works -- they use something called a "parallax barrier", which, as the name implies, basically makes it so you see one screen from one eye and the other from the other. Obviously this works best if you're immediately in front of the screen, but from the demo I saw, it worked from a wider angle than I would have thought.

    Or you can read all of the past slashdot stories about it....