Microsoft's Glasses-Free 3D Display 197
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from the believe-it-when-i-see-it dept.
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."
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Next is 3D with no screen (Score:3, Funny)
Screenshots (Score:1, Funny)
Come on, no screenshots?
Re:cool idea but why? (Score:2, Funny)
>> 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.
Re:The difference between Microsoft & Apple (Score:1, Funny)
MS shows that stuff to make people think they are innovative.
that movie was so bad (Score:3, Funny)
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
Re:The difference between Microsoft & Apple (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:cool idea but why? (Score:5, Funny)
No, he's implying lesbians aren't men.
Re:# of viewiers? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:# of viewiers? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:# of viewiers? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:# of viewiers? (Score:3, Funny)
If only we had some kind of Star Trek technology like Geordi Laforge's Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement (VISOR [wikipedia.org]), 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).
Re:# of viewiers? (Score:1, Funny)
Good luck pushing your fancy 7.1 sound through headphones.
good thing I have a pair of 7.1 surround headphones...
The question is... (Score:4, Funny)