Re: Don't Call LC LCD!

[P3D Oliver Dean <3d-image@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John W. Roberts properly admonished us with:

> 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.
> 
> "LCD stereo glasses" would be something like a VR headset, with actual
> *displays* built into the glasses.
> 
> It may seem like it's not a very important distinction, because right now
> computer displays make up a relatively small part of 3D in general. But
> with so many people misusing the terminology this week, it looks like it's
> well on the way to becoming common usage, and in years to come it could
> easily be as much of a tribulation as the "3D computer graphics" business
> is now.
> 
> I don't want to target any individual with this post. But please try to
> use the terminology more carefully - before it's too late.
> 
> John R


Good point, John!  I'm one of the guilty ones, and I'll CHANGE, REALLY I
will, I PROMISE!!  {:>)

Yikes -- ! To think I almost unthinkingly contributed to another debacle
like the 
vastly irritating "3D computer graphics" terminology mess!  Thanks for
pointing this out.

-- 
Oliver Dean -- 3d-image@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dominguez Hills (near Los Angeles), Calloushernia, USA


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