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One Screen, Multiple Views
First time accepted submitter e-sas writes "Researchers from the University of Bristol have built a new type of display which allows both a shared view and a personalised view to users at the same time. Through the two view-zones, PiVOT provides multiple personalized views where each personalized view is only visible to the user it belongs to while presenting an unaffected and unobstructed shared view to all users. They conceive PiVOT as a tabletop system aimed at supporting mixed-focus collaborative tasks where there is a main task requiring the focus of all individuals of the group but also concurrent smaller personal tasks needing access to information that is not usually shared e.g. a war-room setup. Imagine you and your friends playing multiplayer Starcraft on one big screen instead of individual computer screens!"
The summary makes zero sense, and looking through the article, it's equally as confusing.
From what I could gather from the video, it's just a tablet of sorts that shows different images depending on your angle.
I'm still not even sure of that though, anyone here want to translate it to idiot speak for me?
The technology is pretty cool and there are some uses for it but I think in most cases it would just be better to have multiple screens.
The only times I really see much use for is slide show type presentations. The presenter has some extra notes he can read while the audience just sees the slides.
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> Imagine you and your friends playing multiplayer Starcraft on one big screen instead of individual computer screens!"
Or even Warcraft 2!
my (next) car already has this: a split screen view so the driver can see the satnav while the passenger can watch movies or TV (with headphone support to avoid distraction)
They put a reflective film on a LCD monitor and aimed a projector at it. If you're almost perpendicular to the display, you see the projected image; otherwise you see the LCD image. The setup is that the display sits flat on a table and the projector is overhead, pointing down. If you lean over the display, the image changes. The room lighting has to be dim for this to work.
It's cute, but the applications are limited.
If you really wanted many people to see different things on the same screen, the various tricks used for 3D (shutter glasses, polarization) would be more effective.
"Imagine you and your friends playing multiplayer Starcraft on one big screen instead of individual computer screens!"
You'll still need an internet connection though...
Imagine that while your wife is watching some chick flic, you can be watching a chick-on-chick flic on the same screen.
This would make pR0n more of a social activity.
What makes you think I'm not playing WoW in my shared view right now?
Is this what Obama uses? Everyone else sees a speech, while he watches a tennis game?
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What's up with that square object they need to put on top of it and move around to see some small personalized part? It doesn't seem practical if you need to place something on top of it just to view something...
This would also be fantastic for Artemis! Captain gets his big viewscreen, but the crew can look at the same screen and get the info they need to do their job!
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I saw systems doing separate views using a lenticular lens screen (like you see on 3D advertisements) to show different views to different users back in the mid 90's in a university research lab. They claimed it was new, who knows. I saw it again in the early 2000's, again claimed to be new. I've seen it claimed as new twice in a particular large company's R&D division, and these guys are solving the problem in a clunky way. Maybe their lousy solution is new, but the solution space itself sure isn't.
If it was actually a useful solution, it would've entered production any time in the last 18 years since I first saw it.
Sony's "two people playing on a single monitor" capability in their new monitor for the PS3 is the closest I've seen, but it requires active shutter glasses.
I saw a demo where two people where playing full screen on a tv by calibrating 3d glasses properly. That was convenient for an FPS deathmatch.
You are correct that Sony's product is the most successful commercial version. Note that the principles behind Sony's technology were first described in my M.Sc. thesis, and a paper I published in 2001:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/365024.365349 (if you have ACM access.)
I saw systems doing separate views using a lenticular lens screen (like you see on 3D advertisements) to show different views to different users back in the mid 90's in a university research lab. They claimed it was new, who knows. I saw it again in the early 2000's, again claimed to be new. I've seen it claimed as new twice in a particular large company's R&D division, and these guys are solving the problem in a clunky way. Maybe their lousy solution is new, but the solution space itself sure isn't.
If it was actually a useful solution, it would've entered production any time in the last 18 years since I first saw it.
Sony's "two people playing on a single monitor" capability in their new monitor for the PS3 is the closest I've seen, but it requires active shutter glasses.
Japan had them in the 90s.
They advertised it as being for dads who wanted to watch baseball but couldn't because their shitty families always wanted to watch shitty crap.
So the family is watching the tv from the center of the (tiny) living room, and dad's off in the corner with a beer, watching a baseball game on the same screen.
There was a TV they made and showcased it with a racing game. where player One sees their side and player two sees their side. I believe it was achieved with used of special glasses though.
When you can buy 1080p monitors for as little as $100, is it worth it? I paid $360ish for my 120hz 3D Vision monitor. I could of bought 3 monitors instead with that price. Sometimes I wonder if I should of.
Sounds like a gimmick to me, sort of like 3D movies. Yet they keep beating that dead horse.
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With two separate views and a touchscreen interface it is only a matter of time before people start smacking each other's hands and fighting for screen real estate. It would be so much easier to simply use two monitors. They aren't that damned expensive.
And what you don't get while jumping to this conclusion is that this display delivers more than one view in the personal space. So does your fancy already-been-done satnav allow your third passenger to play a game instead of watching the show the second passenger wants? no? this system does.
Come on, Landrovers had this on their dash for years, where the driver sees a GPS while passenger sees a movie, on the same middle screen. Way to slashdvertise something...
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