P3D Re: TV 3-D without glasses

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/2/99, Robert A. Schreiber wrote:
>	Did anyone else see the article posted on wired.com titled, "3-D
>Images,
>without the glasses" - it about a pair of English sculptors, Dadivd Trayner
>and Edwina Ott, and who have worked with holographic images for years, and
>have discovered a way to have a normal computer display images in 3-d.
>	They started filing patents over ten years ago, and now apparently
>it is
>so convincing that, to quote the article, "You get people grabbing at thin
>air.  We had a 3-year-old trying to catch a figure flying around in front
>of her -- she bashed her fingers on the screen."

This was mentioned, although not very well, a few days ago.  I would take
the quotes above with a grain of salt, since they are the words of one of
the inventors.  Besides, many newcomers are impressed by bad stereo.

The system uses a special form of a hologram to throw interlaced computer
images to one eye or the other.  If it works, great.  But fooling a
three-year old is not a very convincing testimony.

Tom


Last Sunday, I wrote:
>On 2/27/99, Alan Esner/Jamie Newman wrote:
>>Check this out. Could this be real. It sounds too good to be true. -- Alan
>>Esner
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18115.html
>
>
>While the terse, subject-less  message above didn't make this clear, this
>is a Wired news story about another "no glasses" stereo computer display.
>The story is a little light on specifics, but the inventors published a
>white paper, which can be found at
>
>http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/mes/Research/Groups/vvr/vrsig97/proceed/008/hasdp
>ape.htm
>
>You may need to repair this URL if your email program cuts it in half.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tom



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