Xref: utzoo comp.windows.misc:871 comp.sys.next:1080 comp.sys.mac:24522 alt.cyberpunk:1217 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpl!barth From: barth@ihlpl.ATT.COM (BARTH RICHARDS) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,alt.cyberpunk Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments Message-ID: <8299@ihlpl.ATT.COM> Date: 29 Dec 88 18:48:47 GMT References: <4362@pitt.UUCP> <257@gloom.UUCP> <5486@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1116@netxcom.UUCP> Reply-To: barth@ihlpl.UUCP (BARTH RICHARDS) Followup-To: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,alt.cyberpunk Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 46 In article <1116@netxcom.UUCP> ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes: >In article <5486@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hassell@tramp.Colorado.EDU >(Christopher Hassell) writes: > >>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 ideas [Until Holograms can be dynamically >>projected]? > >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). I know that such a system has been available for the Atari ST for at least a year. I seem to remember that the needed hardware cost about $170. I would assume that the same thing, or something similar, is available for other computers. Anyway, I tried it out in the shop on a few of programs (one game and a few animated graphics displays), and found the 3D effect to be pretty convincing, though the lower the ambient room light, the better it seemed to work. 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 88 88 88 What's the ugliest part of your body? Barth Richards 88 88 What's the ugliest part of your body? AT&T Bell Labs 88 88 Some say your nose, some say your toes, Naperville, IL 88 88 But I think it's your mind.... !att!ihlpl!barth 88 88 88 88 -The Mothers of Invention 88 88 88 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888