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First Shareable Interactive Display
Jeremy Newton writes "I want to share with you a new device that allows multiple moving images to be displayed to several users from the same screen at the same time. The project is called a "Shift in Time," my thesis project for NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. The driving goal of this project was to end fighting over the remote control, the gamepad, or the keyboard. It also makes room for new applications in marketing, games, and education. Recently it's gotten some buzz on Engadget.com."
This is great; Now, if only someone makes multiple streams of sound riding on the same speaker...
How about using it in the bank industry? The bank equips the ATM's with this, makes sure that the user is informed that he should sit strictly in front. Then the ATM displays "bait" information on all sides except the front side.
Well, as for practical applications, I can see 2:
since this lens would be very cheap to produce, it might be interesting to see a lens packaged with a video game to allow head-to-head play on the same TV without traditional split-screen. (the TV would need to be high-definition to achieve any sort of usable resolution, and the game could present an interface to calibrate the image interlacing granularity and alignment so that the lens could be used on different sized displays.)
The second practical use is a stereoscopic display without the need for red/blue, polarized, or shutter glasses. I think there is already a company that produces these, at some ungodly price...