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Microsoft's Glasses-Free 3D Display
An anonymous reader writes "The Microsoft Applied Sciences Group has developed a new lens that lets you watch three-dimensional content without 3D glasses. The new lens is thinner at the bottom (about 6mm) than at the top (11mm) and steers light to a viewer's eyes via LEDs along its bottom edge. The 3D display uses a camera to track viewers so that it knows where to steer the light; the idea isn't new, but the required CPU power is now affordable and small enough to pull it off on a large scale."
The Blue Screen of Death will look awesome in 3D!
This post was made in complete sincere seriousity; as such any attempts to derive humour are doomed to instant failure.
Once Ben Affleck gets ahold of one of these, it's only a matter of time before another company announces a 3D screen minus the screen.
Come on, no screenshots?
>> those glasses the never fit well over another pair of glasses
That's what 3D contacts are for. Well, that and freaking people out in the supermarket.
MS shows that stuff to make people think they are innovative.
i'll make you a deal: i'll make believe i didn't get the movie reference in your joke if you make believe you didn't make the joke, and we'll both make believe we never saw the movie. erase our memories as it were
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Funny, as I type this on my iPad, which has been flawless, I have to disagree with you.
Mine hasn't. I tried the iScale App, where you step on your iPad and it tells you how much you weigh. I've been having problems with my iPad ever since.
No, he's implying lesbians aren't men.
It can also show ordinary 2D video for up to four people simultaneously Stop the presses! Bob, Joe, Sally: gather 'round my ordinary computer monitor with me and read what Ars Technica is reporting about a display that can show TWO DIMENSIONAL content to up to FOUR PEOPLE!
Seconded! Sitting through crappy reality shows about fat people losing weight is neigh torture. She feels the same way about Stargate. So we compromise and watch her shows.
Good luck pushing your fancy 7.1 sound through headphones.
What a depressingly stupid machine.
If only we had some kind of Star Trek technology like Geordi Laforge's Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement (VISOR), but for ears. That way you could isolate what each viewer heard. We could call them Hearing Enhancement/Apportionment Device PHOr New Entertainment Service (HEADPHONES).
Good luck pushing your fancy 7.1 sound through headphones.
good thing I have a pair of 7.1 surround headphones...
... will it blend?
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