My personal experience with the RD3D is that, yes, it is very particular about your position. You need to position your head in the center of the display area and particular distance away from the monitor in order to see anything. There's a little colored bar at the bottom of the screen that turns red as you get closer to help you find this spot.
Glasses may allow a bit more leeway in this respect, but if not using the happy headache-inducing shutters mentioned in another comment, the display method would need to be similar (i.e., two interlaced images at different angles), and you'd still need to carry around extra hardware. The RD3D is proabably the simplest way to get a 3D display to the average user.
The companies on this list sell either used laptops or non-brandname laptops. As noted on the site, this isn't much of an issue as far as components, but it is for support. There will be no hardware or warranty support with these machines.
No attempt at deception is being made here. The laptops come with windows, and most people want them that way. If you don't want windows, we'll remove it for you. No lies, no smoke and mirrors. You simply aren't going to find a laptop from Sharp, IBM or Dell that doesn't come with a Windows license.
Well, you can "cheap out" and buy the laptop on your own then send it in for a Depot Install, but the prices come out to about the same as if you bought the laptop from us. The price includes not only the laptop and distro tweaks: it also includes a year of email and phone support. So not only do we help you get Linux, we help you keep it running.
You don't need 3D glasses; that's the point. There are essentially two displays on the one screen, and when you switch into "3D" mode, you can see a 3D image without glasses.
It can be a bit difficult to see--you have to position your head just right in relation to the screen--but it's a pretty cool effect. It's about the same as watching a 3D movie but without the hardware.
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Glasses may allow a bit more leeway in this respect, but if not using the happy headache-inducing shutters mentioned in another comment, the display method would need to be similar (i.e., two interlaced images at different angles), and you'd still need to carry around extra hardware. The RD3D is proabably the simplest way to get a 3D display to the average user.
No attempt at deception is being made here. The laptops come with windows, and most people want them that way. If you don't want windows, we'll remove it for you. No lies, no smoke and mirrors. You simply aren't going to find a laptop from Sharp, IBM or Dell that doesn't come with a Windows license.
Well, you can "cheap out" and buy the laptop on your own then send it in for a Depot Install, but the prices come out to about the same as if you bought the laptop from us. The price includes not only the laptop and distro tweaks: it also includes a year of email and phone support. So not only do we help you get Linux, we help you keep it running.
You don't need 3D glasses; that's the point. There are essentially two displays on the one screen, and when you switch into "3D" mode, you can see a 3D image without glasses. It can be a bit difficult to see--you have to position your head just right in relation to the screen--but it's a pretty cool effect. It's about the same as watching a 3D movie but without the hardware. dshea@emperorlinux.com