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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."
For all those airline passengers who are sick of being shoulder-surfed on the plane, a little goatse on either side of you will make sure nobody reads the document you're trying to type ever again. In fact, you may just get the big sweaty guy next to you to move to another seat, giving you room to stretch out a bit.
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I'd think that it would be Windows on the right, MacOS in the center, and Linux on the left. :>
One potential application for this that I think could be exciting would be having providing different input to each eye (using a screen that displayed only two images). This would allow people to see 3-d images without having to train their eyes to stare straight ahead into different screens, which is difficult for lazy-eyed people like me.