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3D Displays... Coming
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What is the benefit of a 3D monitor?! Well, let us see here, gaming is going to be the number one seller. After gaming, who knows what they are going to be doing with new DVDs. With the new blue-laser DVDs, they may be able to fit two layers of the film on the disk for a 3D effect. I am sure asthetics is going to be a big draw. Now the windows will actually look like they are popping out at you rather than just pretending to pop-out
It really doesn't have much of an application other than entertainment, though.
I am just wondering how they are going to have the mouse move around. If you have two layers, is the mouse going to be switching between the screens depending on if it is on a foreground object or background, or will they devise some way to switch between screens. I just think it would be really akward if the mouse jumped between screens. Actually, I would imagine it would always be in the foreground b/c anything you click on will be brought to the foreground.
Just today I finally decided to see if I could like the WinXP look (I have had XP for months but use the classic view). So far, I don't like the whole 3Dish windows. I didn't like them much with OSX either. I will give it another day to see if it grows on me and if not, then back to the old way for me.
It really doesn't have much of an application other than entertainment, though.I am just wondering how they are going to have the mouse move around. If you have two layers, is the mouse going to be switching between the screens depending on if it is on a foreground object or background, or will they devise some way to switch between screens. I just think it would be really akward if the mouse jumped between screens. Actually, I would imagine it would always be in the foreground b/c anything you click on will be brought to the foreground.
Just today I finally decided to see if I could like the WinXP look (I have had XP for months but use the classic view). So far, I don't like the whole 3Dish windows. I didn't like them much with OSX either. I will give it another day to see if it grows on me and if not, then back to the old way for me.
Technology is getting pretty dang advanced these days
And even mind-reading and negotiating real estate deals aren't that difficult to imagine. Do a web search for "mind-computer interface" for the former and "intelligent agents" for the latter.
Apple's advanced research labs very could be working right now on bringing these technologies to mass markets.
And make you're coffee? That's old news:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/jini/
http://www.sun.com/consumer-embedded/cover/ces/
...or alternately:
http://mousehouse.net/
http://www.findleystudios.com/homerun/
http://ipexten.dyndns.biz/
Well... all the technologies I listed exist or are emerging. If anyone could be expected to bring them all together, wouldn't that have to be Apple?
And even mind-reading and negotiating real estate deals aren't that difficult to imagine. Do a web search for "mind-computer interface" for the former and "intelligent agents" for the latter.
Apple's advanced research labs very could be working right now on bringing these technologies to mass markets.
And make you're coffee? That's old news:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/jini/
http://www.sun.com/consumer-embedded/cover/ces/
...or alternately:
http://mousehouse.net/
http://www.findleystudios.com/homerun/
http://ipexten.dyndns.biz/
possible 3D mouse, the Essential Reality P5 glove controller? (though navigating any desktop in 3D with icons floating in front of you would need some getting used to.)
also... two-layer DVDs? First of all, Blu-ray IS very high data capacity and all, but to actually shoot movies in 3D... no way. THAT's not gonna happen. All movie theatres would need polarized glasses and special projectors, etc. The infrastructure change is just gonna be too much.
games: yes! though truly 3d games would need beefier graphics cards, since they'd a few more image layers, or who knows, maybe even real voxels, to number crunch.
also... two-layer DVDs? First of all, Blu-ray IS very high data capacity and all, but to actually shoot movies in 3D... no way. THAT's not gonna happen. All movie theatres would need polarized glasses and special projectors, etc. The infrastructure change is just gonna be too much.
games: yes! though truly 3d games would need beefier graphics cards, since they'd a few more image layers, or who knows, maybe even real voxels, to number crunch.
Essays could be written on this. There could be many benifits.
But one benifit would just being able to see things in 3D. Like
if you were browsing on a site, all the links you havn't gone to
could be raised a little bit, and the ones you have already visited
could be raised a little less. It will just look better, and there
are many uses for a 3d display.
I'm not trying to be rude, but please explain to me how 3D "Special Edition" DVDs would be such a cinch to create.
The film would hafta be shot stereoscopically (two cameras), or maybe even more, then the lines would hafta be merged into the 3D image, and so on and so forth. There IS an easier possibility with computer extrapolation of the 3D environment from a scattered array of cameras, but I don't believe that such a process can render a fake 3D environment which is exactly like the real scene.
The film would hafta be shot stereoscopically (two cameras), or maybe even more, then the lines would hafta be merged into the 3D image, and so on and so forth. There IS an easier possibility with computer extrapolation of the 3D environment from a scattered array of cameras, but I don't believe that such a process can render a fake 3D environment which is exactly like the real scene.