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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
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: <5581@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 88 16:30:38 GMT
References: <4362@pitt.UUCP> <257@gloom.UUCP> <5486@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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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*
>at 60hz (probably audible) back and forth, producing a "scanned" block
>of apparent display space left on the retina.  I would be cheap, but the
>moving part aspect will probably kill it.
>
>Any other Cheap <read Practical> ideas [Until Holograms can be dynamically 
>   projected]?

	In a Late '70s Byte (when it was still useful) there was an article
on how to contruct a 3-d display, which used a rotating mirror on top of
a CRT.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup