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From: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul D. Crowley)
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Subject: Re: Cheap 3D?
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Date: 30 Nov 90 20:54:17 GMT
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jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>Buy an Amiga 500 for <$800 and a pair of Haitex 3D goggles ($100 or so).

Why are these glasses so expensive? They're only a couple of big LCD's.

Does anyone know if it would be possible to cannibalise an ordinary LCD
display to switch it all at once? That way you could build your own
shutters.  What would be particularly useful would be a connection to a
photosensitive switch: you stick a small sucker cup with a
photosensitive transistor inside in one corner of the screen and use it
to synchronise the shutters.  That way, I can use it on the University
computers since I don't own one of my own. 

Electronics people?
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