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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for October 1990
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.155334.3665@agora.uucp>
Date: 3 Oct 90 15:53:34 GMT
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In article <3808.2708cdc4@cc.curtin.edu.au> North_TJ@cc.curtin.edu.au (Tim North) writes:
:In article <9009280355.AA23389@lilac.berkeley.edu>, Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET 
:(Murph Sewall) writes:
:: 
::                          VAPORWARE
::                        Murphy Sewall
::               From the October 1990 APPLE PULP
:: 
:: A Real 3-D Display.
:: Texas Instruments has shown a "bubble" display two feet in
:: diameter which "floats" three dimensional images within a
:: volume.  Multiple viewers can see the display from any side
:: without special goggles or eyeshades.  Dubbed "Omniview,"
:: TI's patent application describes the technology as a
:: "real-time, auto-stereoscopic, multiplanar 3-D display
:: system."  Initial commercial applications may appear as
:: early as next year.  - InfoWorld 20 August
:
:You've GOT to be kidding! ACKK! Is this for real? Whoa man, what centuru is 
:this?! I mean this isn't for reeee-al is it? Quick, what day is it -- nope not
:April first...
:
:Somebody tell me it isn't possible yet -- please!

	Of course it's possible... They're using a spinning, tilted disk
with lasers shining on it. The disk spins fast enough to be effectively
invisible to your eyes, so you only see the laser hitting the disk surface.
That gives you a very nice wire frame (or if you're quick enough with the
laser, solid) 3D image. You're limited in colors, and the viewing area
isn't a sphere, but it's certainly possible... Can anyone guess how long
it'll be before we see a port of Battle Chess with two different color
lasers? :-)

:Tim North
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