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From: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Summary: 3-D Glasses
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <1116@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 88 18:09:56 GMT
References: <4362@pitt.UUCP> <257@gloom.UUCP> <5486@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
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In article <5486@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hassell@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Christopher Hassell) writes:
>In article <257@gloom.UUCP> cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf) writes:
>#
>#What I would like to see is the desktop metaphor extended into 3D, say
>#-- 
>#Cory (...your bravest dreams, your worst nightmare...) Kempf
>#UUCP: encore.com!gloom!cory
>#	"...it's a mistake in the making."	-KT
>
>I have heard about a VERY interesting though likely to fail new method of 
>3-d displays.  It basically is like a crt except that a mirror *vibrates*
[Edited...]
>Any other Cheap <read Practical> ideas [Until Holograms can be dynamically 
>   projected]?
>### C.H. ###

Yes.  Design your graphical interface to alternate rapidly between two
perspective images of the same object.  Interface that with a special pair
of glasses whos lenses are made of a rapid acting LCD material.  Set the
glasses so that the lenses alternate clear/dark in synch with the display.

The result of this is that your eyes each see only the perspective view
appropriate for that eye, and persistence of vision causes you to see
it in full color 3-D.  (None of this red/green junk!)

Such glasses and graphics already exist.  They are being used in at least
one video game (some sort of driving game); and are available on the open
market (not sure who from, check with comp.sys.amiga, since that's where
I saw it mentioned most recently).  I've also seen at least one NOVA program
that talked about them (computer graphics).
					Enjoy!
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