Sharp Develops Triple Directional Viewing LCD

morpheus83 writes "Sharp Corporation and Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd. (SLE) have developed the Triple Directional Viewing LCD, a display that controls the viewing angle so that the display can show different images from the left, right, and center simultaneously. Using proprietary parallax barrier on a standard TFT LCD, the screen splits light in three directions — left, right, and center — and displays three separate images on the same screen at the same time. So connect three computers to the LCD and from the center you see Windows, Linux from the left and MacOS from the right."

Comments

Very fancy - BUT

[grims]

This is all very fancy, but wont viewing from sides reduce the surface amount you are watching? A 1024x768 from front wont be the same at 45 degree angle - loss of resolution - and compressed faces/picture etc.? How is that solved?

Re:Very fancy - BUT

[dk-software-engineer]

This is all very fancy, but wont viewing from sides reduce the surface amount you are watching?

You can easily have 5 people watching the same screen without worrying about perspective. I'm more worried about the amount of pixels. To make 3 pictures, only 1/3 of the pixels will be used in each picture. You'll need a killer resolution to make 3 nice pictures this way.

Re:Very fancy - BUT

[cHALiTO]

Depending on the relative price of the thing, you could also use it to have 3 monitors by placing 2 mirrors instead of actually buying 3 monitors. Assuming one of these could be cheaper than 3 normal monitors, you place it in front of you, then place an attacheable mirror at each side, and bang! 3-head fraging!! ;)

missing the point?

[MrTester]

Having different computers for each image was the submitters idea. It does not have to be the whole point of it.

I can think of several uses:
1) If you use only 2 of the images and change the angles, each eye could be getting a different image. Instant 3D. Nice.
2) This could be a first step if in later generations you can get more images. Imagine actually being able to look around things on your screen without having to manipulate the object with a mouse and keyboard.

Re:Cereal box kids toy cards

[aadvancedGIR]

Cars: GPS on the left, DVD on the right and kid's console on the front.

Forget the flat screens

[Gruneun]

Picture this technology on a screen that's wrapped around the outside of a cylinder. You could have an information kiosk that has a different image for every person that's standing around it. If the images were that of a virtual tour guide, the guide could point things out in 360 degrees, yet it would still be tailored for each person looking at the screen.

Re:Is it bad technology day on /. ?

[Hijacked Public]

While it would require more than 3 angles I can see this technology having an application in product modeling displays.

There are a number of ways to build a 360 view of a product out of still photos, but they are all intended to be viewed by one person sitting in front of a screen. With more viewing angles (and monitors) a similar display could be made that in intended for multiple viewers who are simply walking around.

I'm not sure what the application for that might be, but I'm just the photographer.

First, PLEASE perfect the two-image version

[Anonymous Coward]

I want my left eye to see one image and my right eye to see another, with my brain merging the views for a true 3D effect.

Re:First, PLEASE perfect the two-image version

[Janek Kozicki]

I want my left eye to see one image and my right eye to see another, with my brain merging the views for a true 3D effect.

good idea, you shouldn't post this as AC.