Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Send rumors (with or without attribution)
Summary: stereo vision?
Message-ID: <501@mks.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 22:07:23 GMT
References: <8808300615.AA26352@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <8808300615.AA26352@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:
> A new display technology for portable computers and television sets has
> been developed by Reflection Technology.  The device called the Private
> Eye is a 1 by 1.2 by 1.3 inch monocular headset weighing less than 2
> ounces that produces an image that appears to float in space about two
> feet in front of the viewer. 

So how hard would it be to wear two of these and have flicker-free
stereo video? I've seen the Atari ST system of liquid crystal shutter
glasses controlled by the computer, but the flicker can get to you after
a while.  I saw a science fair project that used polarised glasses and
two polarised monitors to produce VERY nice stereo output.  The students
had a wire frame model of the space shuttle apparently floating about 6"
in front of the monitor. 

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