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Sharp Develops Triple Directional Viewing LCD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that-kinda-blew-my-mind dept.

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."

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  1. Very fancy - BUT by grims · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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?

    1. Re:Very fancy - BUT by cHALiTO · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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!! ;)

      --
      "Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad." -- Terry Pratchett
  2. Re:Cereal box kids toy cards by aadvancedGIR · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

  3. Forget the flat screens by Gruneun · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

  4. First, PLEASE perfect the two-image version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.