RE: 3D SPEX (and LCS in general)

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997
>From: P3D John W Roberts writes:
>............. about DMM. ......................
>..................... NTSC color encoding is awkward, but it works
>reasonably well - would it have made sense to delay the introduction
>of television in the US another 10 years in order to standardize the way
>color would be implemented some decades later? (Bearing in mind that such
>a standard would probably have contained provisions on how to synchronize
>the flywheel. :-)

*****  There is a difference between trying to guess what's going to be
developed 10 or 20 years into the future and incorporating already known
concepts and ideas. Stereo images existed before the transistor, yet of all
the technological advancements we as a society are so proud of, why has
stereo been left virtually ignored for so many decades. I'm thoroughly happy
that it's finally getting development attention it deserved, but it's far
behind other developments in a relative way. I'm sure that inclusion of
stereo image knowledge a long time ago would have had an effect on any
number of other developments between then and now. We have no idea what some
of those might have been, but I'll bet the underlying technology would have
been far more stereo friendly now, had it been part of the thoughts of
developers along the way.


>
>In the specific case of DMD devices, the micromirrors themselves have
>considerable potential for frame sequential stereo - their switching
>speed is claimed to be on the order of 10 KHz. 

*****  You mean that the equivalent to vertical refresh might be 10 KHz? Or
a full stereo image at 5 KHz? Wow. Rock steady. Flicker would become extinct.


>The control circuitry
>to make use of this speed is a challenge to develop (and, I expect,
>proprietary), but again I don't see why DMDs in particular would have
>bandwidth problems. I've heard at least one speaker from TI make a public
>statement at a conference that he believes DMD (as the technology was 
>called at the time) would be well suited for stereo applications.
>

<<<<<<<  Do they have some web pages describing the technology somewhere?
This development combined with the new digital imaging devices from Polaroid
and partners looks really exciting and full of promise.

Larry Berlin

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