3D flat screens, coming your way

[Rabid pitbull]

That sounds interesting! I wonder if it requires a special video card?

[.FX.]

Cool

[Tommi]

I still don't get how that works... alternating scanlines... eyes... dunno... They could have attached a sample picture of it to show the effect :D

[coupon]

Bugger, no use for me: 0_X

[dragonz]

well of course, out of my leauge, but really cool:p

[mikewebb]

I've seen it, or something similar at Siggraph. It kind of works like the 3D photos that have been around for years. You have a zone in front of the monitor that you get the 3D effect. Move away from that it goes to 2D, except, as I recall, at the extreme angles, when it would go back to 3D. It's been a year or two since I saw these screens so the details are not too fresh.

Other 3D screen technology I found interesting was the rotating screen in a sphere. It spins fast enough that the image can be drawn in a true 3D space. Don't think this one will get to a laptop near you.

Mike

[playmesumch00ns]

You can generate a stereoscopic image with out-of-the-box openGL quite easily. Presumably this technology will need a graphics card for each eye? Or is it like traditional scanlines - your eyes merge the image?

Either way this is very cool - the next logical step!

[dark_lotus]

Hmmm Apple 23" Cinema Display or 3D monitor.

Descisions, Descisions, Descisions.

[pomru]

The Sharp monitor sounds like the monitors produced by Dimension Technologies Inc. (http://www.dti3d.com/) playmesumch00ns is close about the use of scanlines that trick your eyes into producing a 3D image in your mind, except those scanlines are rotated 90 degrees. The scanlines have to be vertical to work with a diffraction grating in the LCD monitor screen. As mikewebb says, you have a zone in front of the monitor where your eyes perceive the stereo images.

The DTI monitors only require one nVidia-based graphics card. Not sure if the Sharp monitor will have the same requirement.

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