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From: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 3D display (Was: replacing the desktop metaphor)
Message-ID: <382@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 04:07:54 GMT
References: <18963@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <9076@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
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In article <9076@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
>> looking at anything but the screen.  The screen proper was behind an
>-> LCD layer, which changed its polarization with each refresh.  The

>    You can actually buy this for home. The Sega video game system has a pair
>of the LCD glasses, and a series of 3D games. Even if you don't have, a sega
>you could always buy them and use them on your own mac.
 
Actually, the Sega glasses aren't polarized at all. The LCD layer was moved
from in front of the monitor into the glasses and are completely opaque rather
than polarized, for comparison's sake. There are such glasses available with
software for the Amiga and the Atari ST.

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