Re: Don't Call LC LCD!

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 01:28:05 -0500
>From: P3D John W Roberts writes:
>.....................
>Hey people - all of a sudden everybody's calling LC shutter glasses
>"LCD stereo". This is WRONG! Here on this list we like to sniff at
>inappropriate use of the term "3D", and right before our eyes we're
>generating a misnomer that's just as bad!
>
>Liquid crystal shutter glasses are not *displays*, because they don't have
>any imaging elements - they're just big on-off windows. The stereo viewing
>systems which use liquid crystal shutter glasses could be called
>"frame sequential", or "field sequential", or "time-multiplexed stereo",
>or some term which describes what they really do.


You are absolutely right, but the industry was there ahead of this
discussion!!! The biggest problem with what you do suggest as alternatives
is that those are some BIG alternatives that I *just know* won't seriously
get used on a day to day basis. One option might be LCG,  with *G* for
goggles or glasses.  When it comes to naming new things we tend to think of
the most obvious hardware association, which is the glasses rather than
their functional aspects like *Field Sequential* or even further from common
thoughts, *Time-multiplexed stereo*. Then when the common person stares back
with a totally blank look, the explanation about the relationship of this
technology with LC Displays, provides the basis of an understanding.

At least LCD glasses referrs to glasses made with LCD technology, which is
an accurate reference even if not fully descriptive.

Larry Berlin

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