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Stanford Team Developing Super 3D Camera
Tookis writes "Most of us are happy to take 2D happy snaps with single lens digital cameras. Imagine if you had a digital camera that could more accurately perceive the distance of all objects in its field of vision than your own eyes and brain. That's exactly what a team of researchers from Stanford University are working on — and it could even be affordable for ordinary consumers."
But there are a number of other possibilities for a depth-information camera: biological imaging, 3-D printing, creation of 3-D objects or people to inhabit virtual worlds, or 3-D modeling of buildings...
... that cute girl next door, the cute girl that works across the street, the cute girl walking down the street.
This could revolutionize the entire practice of voyeurism completely! Stanford == science for the masses.
I got a catholic block.
We've already got 3D pr0n, they're called girls.
Experience teaches only the teachable. -AH
....Goatse in 3D!!!! Yay!!
1) Don't have children and/or have never tallied what you actually cost to house and maintain.
or
2) Live in a box, eat strays that you catch yourself, and don't bother with doctors or hygiene.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
I tried one of those "girls" once. I don't know. I suppose they're OK, but there are some issues that you have to take into consideration.
/.ers. I've heard you can rent them, but that it's also pretty expensive and you run the risk of getting viruses. Probably not worth the hassle, IMHO.
First of all they are ladened with pretty nasty Digital Rights Management. If you try to access one with your digits and you don't have the proper authorization, you're going to get whacked. And it's harder than you'd think to get authorization. The one I tried seemed to have been encumbered with the ForePlay(tm) DRM system. Man, you practically have to jump through hoops to get any access at all.
Also, you'd think that you pay once and it's yours forever, right? That's not how it works. It's kind of a pay-per-use situation. You've got to buy dinner, movie, etc. Then once you've spent all the cash, you have to negotiate the whole ForePlay system and then finally you get access -- maybe. These things seem to be pretty flakey, because most of the time I just got the "headache" response. What's worse is that the more time that goes by, you have to spend progressively more money. And even with that expenditure, somehow you end up will less and less access.
Oh and did I mention that you're only supposed to have one at a time? That's right. Let's say your primary girl is in headache mode, you aren't supposed to be able to get access to another girl. You just have to wait until the first one comes back on line. *And* most of them are equipped with spyware that calls you up every couple of hours and says inane things like, "Whatcha doin'?"
So, like I said, they're OK I guess. But probably they won't be that popular with most
We've already got 3D pr0n, they're called girls.
:(
Yeah, but when I ever go into the locker room to view that "real" porn I get arrested.
Of course, I guess it still ends up with sex. It's just that it's then with a guy named Bubba who's sharing my cell.
But you can protect yourself from the viruses, with something called -- oddly enough -- a "Trojan."
Heh, yours must be defective, i'd return her if i were you. Mine happily allows me to freely access her as needed with little work, and doesn't mind if i share some of my content with others, so long as it's only a temporary license (none of that annoying spyware either). I guess if your girl was an MS product, mine would be Linux - with compiz thrown in, 'cause she's actually cute too! ;)
I just hope i don't find out down the line that i shouldn't have skipped that annoying EULA that came up at first...
-Taylor
Worldwide Military budgets: $2100 billion. Worldwide Space Exploration budgets: $38 billion. Really, world? Really?
Make sure you get one with a PlaysForSure sticker on the package before you even *think* of inserting your USB key in the slot. And get rid of that pathetic 256MB unit you carry around in your jeans pocket. Go big or go home. After seeing what's up there on YouPorn, "girls" all want 8GB's (or more!) these days.
You mean, super 3D is 3D. With "jazz hands".
Wait! Blue screen technology with no blue screen? You mean Linux?
You might think yours is GPL'd right now, but I think you are going to find that later, when you start thinking about distributing copies, that EULA is going to come up and bite you on the arse. At some point, they ALL have a clause about using other systems.
Me, I think I'm pretty lucky. Mine is expensive, but she brings me cans of beer and watches the football with me, while the dinner is being cooked and the washing machine is doing its things. I've hacked the access system so ForePlay is minimal, but on the whole it works ok
A.I. Research. The peculiar science in which we know the question and we know the answer, but can't show the working
Humans are cheap (and fun) to manufacture but the maintenance fee is a nightmare.
Are you saying a brunette can't be da bomb? Fine. More for me.
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