Apple Researching 3D Stereoscopic Displays

[tgildred]

So by the same reasoning.... Music is pointless because some people are deft,

I think you mean slight of hand is pointless because some people are deft.

 

[Hemingray]

I think you mean slight of hand is pointless because some people are deft.

Or... keyboards are pointless because some people can't spell.

 

[sleepingworker]

I think you mean slight of hand is pointless because some people are deft.

That's very funny!!! I was thinking on those lines when I read that post (only not with as clever a response).

 

[pddemetar]

30%

I was talking to some other researchers about this... the problem, they say, is that 30% of people (with 2 eyes) have reduced or no 3d perception... aparently that's a large enough group that it may not even be commercially viable

 

[sleepingworker]

This reminds me of when I was doing some graphic design work for a friend who owns a graphic design business and has for many years. One day I was looking over his shoulder as he was working on a logo using photoshop and asked me. How does this look? I responded why was it all green? He said what it's not red and green? By the way I'm colour blind. normally he would get his wife or kids to check his colour progress. I have seen many airbrushed works he's done and never thought there was anything odd about the colour work. Now I can't help but look for oddness, but he still amazes me.

OT, back in the day at Marvel, I worked on a graphic novel with Mike Kaluta, painting the pages. When I showed him the work, he said "looks good to me - I'm colorblind". Turns out that when he painted his covers, he had the colors he was using labeled by an assistant, and so he colored, blind. Amazing.

 

[kockgunner]

While I don't think all Apple's UI patents will catch on, I strongly believe that Apple will be one of the remaining relevant companies in the future.

 

[i.mac]

Not good.

...

Until they find a way to make 3d possible with only one eye, this is pointless.

you should have finished the sentence...

..., this is pointless for one eye folks until technology catches up to them, which may be Apple could do...


that, our your world is really small indeed. Have some and sheer-up.

 

[kockgunner]

Wow. Windows will have viruses in 3D now.

HAHAHAHA good one!

 

[Beric]

Wow. Windows will have viruses in 3D now.

I LOL'ed at that one.

Anyway, on with the 3D! I doubt I am capable of it, with my eyes that have even undergone surgery, but it's possible.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

OT, back in the day at Marvel, I worked on a graphic novel with Mike Kaluta, painting the pages. When I showed him the work, he said "looks good to me - I'm colorblind". Turns out that when he painted his covers, he had the colors he was using labeled by an assistant, and so he colored, blind. Amazing.

He worked off contrast and made sure his colors didn't bleed out the contrast between areas of his work. Tough job but doable.

 

[sleepingworker]

He worked off contrast and made sure his colors didn't bleed out the contrast between areas of his work. Tough job but doable.

LOL! Of course, Mike did it. I'm just thankful that I can see color. Being an artist is tough enough!!!

 

[professor plum]

So by the same reasoning.... Music is pointless because some people are deft,

Music is awesome because some people are deft.

 

[MacFly123]

Now this is what I'm talking about. Now put this in a flat screen with OLED @ 4K please I know there are other companies making flat screen prototypes of this type of non-glasses 3D display technology. Exciting.

 

[crap freakboy]

I've been blind in my left eye since birth.
This 3D world is totally overrated, I'd much rather view the world as flat.
One eye good, two eyes bad.

 

[Malarkey]

IT' ABOUT TIME!!! 3D is the final entertainment frontier.

I can't believe it's 2008 and the complexities of 3D entertainment have yet to be fully realized. I have for a while now been thinking that if anyone would finally tackle this holy grail, it would be Apple.

After all, has anyone really improved upon the Viewmaster in the last 30 years?

 

[Genghis Khan]

3D screen...the tech seems simple enough, in principle

although, i think it will be hard to implement as it can only project to one person

the next step is 3D printing (architecture students drool here)

 

[Dizzy11523]

Boring news. I can also patten some star trek crap.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Uh, wait sec. Stereo capable graphics cards have been used in realtime CAD/CAM/CAE for a looong time.

I suppose Apple can pursue a process patent just as well as any patent squatter can.

Yep, stereo cards are it. The eyegogs though... not so fun. It'd be beyond wonderful if there was a display that'd let us sit in front of a monitor and visualize our models without strapping on the headgear. If they could do a production model for under $10k, we'd buy a dozen, and we're just a small firm. I can think of a handful of our closest competitors who would as well. In fact, I can't think of any industry where it wouldn't be an asset. It'd be a tremendous improvement, not only to our working environment, but in presentations and as a visualization tool in production as well. Damn. Do it Apple!

I think sometimes people around here forget that computers have real uses besides email checking, web surfing, and playing video games.

Compared to video game market, the Cad & Graphics Market is small, sure. But it's big enough to support a respectable number of companies producing entire product lines of $2k+ graphics cards and highly specialized systems with their own operating systems... Apple may produce consumer-grade computers, but they have always courted the graphics and artists community, and succeeded in bringing high performance features down to an affordable level.

More than anything, a 3d standalone monitor such as this, and a Tablet Mac are probably the two products that'd endear them to the graphics and design community again. ...and are two products that the average Joe would probably have to work at finding a use for.

 

[Compile 'em all]

Mac OSX 10.6 3D

I second this notion.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

We actually see what Apple is working on with every new product or software release. As soon as these products are both technically and financially feasible we are the lucky beneficiaries. It's just a matter of patience (which I often don't have when it comes to news like this, lol).

Please tell me that's sarcasm and you don't actually believe that!

 

[avigalante]

Although interesting, I don't see this making it into a mainstream consumer level product (unless I'm completely missing the point). This patent is probably for Apple's own use as it certainly fits the gamut for Steve Jobs' as well as Apple's various keynote addresses.

Imagine the hype after viewing a product in 3D? Everyone will be drinking the Kool-Aid then...

 

[jmadlena]

What a cool thought lol. But ... wait till the porn industry get hold of this technology!!!

I've always wondered why porn studios haven't released a movie in conventional glasses-3D? Correct me if I'm wrong...

 

[Foxglove9]

Hope it's better than the Nintendo Virtual Boy!

 

[i make movies]

Alls I can say is Apple better have a glossy/matte option on the screen because glossy 3d gives me a headache.



insert sarcasm anywhere.

 

[quantumbits]

Hooray for innovation.

That said, why not go the infrared signal tracking route for a 3-D like experience? Apple could build an IR sensor into the screen bezel and piggyback an IR transmitter onto one bud of their regular headphones. The user could then calibrate the sensor location as needed and voila: a virtual 3D experience awaits! You could move your head back and forth and side to side to seemingly peer through the screen and into your desktop. That would be hella cool.