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From: bobc@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bob Calbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: How to view Superbowl 3-D
Summary: maybe
Keywords: TV 3-D graphic
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Date: 26 Jan 89 18:55:42 GMT
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In article <3047@pixar.UUCP>, good@pixar.uucp (Craig Good: Central Marin Home for the Bewildered) writes:
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> I don't know how these guys sold it as a licensed product since you
> can't very well patent a camera move, and the glasses are simply one
> clear lens and one grey one.  Since it's based on motion artifacts there
> are annoying things about motion artifacts in the image.  Pretty darn
> clever, though.  

I can't see a camera of any perceivable mass being moved fast enought to
work within the speeds need to produce a new frame every sixtieth of a
second.  Conceivably what they did was have two cameras and electronically
switch between the two somehow.  This might be able to be licensed.