The biggest problem threading throughout this entire debate is the feasibility of porting Microsoft's non-OS applications. From the source code that I've seen ('96 all the way up to '08, and don't ask how), the applications that they write are so incredibly intertwined with the OS that they would expend decades worth of man power just to interface with another OS. Yes, there is the Apple stuff, but has anybody closely examined the dependency differences between a win binary & and an Apple binary? Take a look, it's real food for thought...
This is something that most of the sales & marketing world just doesn't get. Someone says 3D!!! and their brains shut off. The world is a little older and wiser when it comes to investment gold-rushes (eg: DOT-COM) but I think I smell another one coming on, and 3D vis will be the goose laying golden eggs...
Just so this doesn't sound like an advertisement, I'm not going to spout a bunch of specs and crap...
I'm doing software dev for a company that's in the last stages of developing a multi-planar display much like what you're talking about. We're called Dimensional Media Associates, we're at http://www.3dmedia.com . The kicker is this: we ARE using LCD. Go ahead, check it out.
I'd agree that this technology won't find its way to the average user's desktop until it gets too cheap to resist, BUT (there's always a but isn't there?) there are a number of commercial and academic sectors out there slavering for this kind of technology. Just imagine the ability to visualize a non-invasive surigical procedure through a depth-based system. How much more efficient could a procedure like that be? That's just one of the many applications we (Dimensional Media Associates) have had suggested to us. Given our specs:
15-bit color, 4 1/2 inches depth (and much better percieved depth), 800*600 (soon to be 1024*768), AND OpenGL compatible,
what could you think of? ALOT, if you sat down and thought about it, I bet. Just think about this technology combined with haptics, the new breed of 3D cams emerging, etc. WOW!
Actually, the LCD patent and the display discussed are one and the same. BTW, the demo seen was Quake, not Doom. We've also had RTCW, Q3, etc, etc, etc running on it. The display is capable of running pretty much any OpenGL application (with some obvious limitations).
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The biggest problem threading throughout this entire debate is the feasibility of porting Microsoft's non-OS applications. From the source code that I've seen ('96 all the way up to '08, and don't ask how), the applications that they write are so incredibly intertwined with the OS that they would expend decades worth of man power just to interface with another OS. Yes, there is the Apple stuff, but has anybody closely examined the dependency differences between a win binary & and an Apple binary? Take a look, it's real food for thought...
This is something that most of the sales & marketing world just doesn't get. Someone says 3D!!! and their brains shut off. The world is a little older and wiser when it comes to investment gold-rushes (eg: DOT-COM) but I think I smell another one coming on, and 3D vis will be the goose laying golden eggs...
Just so this doesn't sound like an advertisement, I'm not going to spout a bunch of specs and crap... I'm doing software dev for a company that's in the last stages of developing a multi-planar display much like what you're talking about. We're called Dimensional Media Associates, we're at http://www.3dmedia.com . The kicker is this: we ARE using LCD. Go ahead, check it out.
I'd agree that this technology won't find its way to the average user's desktop until it gets too cheap to resist, BUT (there's always a but isn't there?) there are a number of commercial and academic sectors out there slavering for this kind of technology. Just imagine the ability to visualize a non-invasive surigical procedure through a depth-based system. How much more efficient could a procedure like that be? That's just one of the many applications we (Dimensional Media Associates) have had suggested to us. Given our specs: 15-bit color, 4 1/2 inches depth (and much better percieved depth), 800*600 (soon to be 1024*768), AND OpenGL compatible, what could you think of? ALOT, if you sat down and thought about it, I bet. Just think about this technology combined with haptics, the new breed of 3D cams emerging, etc. WOW!
Just curious, stereo, where did you see us at?
Actually, the LCD patent and the display discussed are one and the same. BTW, the demo seen was Quake, not Doom. We've also had RTCW, Q3, etc, etc, etc running on it. The display is capable of running pretty much any OpenGL application (with some obvious limitations).