P3D RE: PC 3D Display

[Eddie Bowers <eddieb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have become very skeptical of these types of announcements. You see stuff
like this all the time that says something amazing is just around the
corner, they just need to work out a few more details. It turns out those
details can never be worked out and it never happens.
Remember that show they used to have on a few years ago about new amazing
inventions. I can't think of one that every actually happened.

Remember the super conducting craze in the 80's. We were just steps away
from super conducting at room temperature. Businesses were started around
this inevitability. It still hasn't happened.

Not to mention in the 70's they talked about a new car that would get
something like 90 miles to the gallon.

I look at these things as if they were those newsreels from the 50's about
new amazing gadgets. It's mostly nonsense.

I could always be wrong this time though.

-Eddie
http://users.ticnet.com/view-master/

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Costa -- Network Info Srvs [mailto:Bill.Costa@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 7:31 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list PHOTO-3D
Subject: P3D Re: NEW TECH: Real 3D computer display, without glasses...


[ Source: http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_4214.html ]

    Engineers at Manhattan-based Dimensional Media Associates (DMA)
    are developing a new 3D display technology that may enable users
    to teleconference in 3D or 'touch' goods for sale on the
    Web.  Initial applications for the Multiplanar Volumetric Display
    are in medical imaging, auto manufacturing and other high-end
    tasks.  But prototypes of 3D displays are expected on desktops in
    six months.  While today's graphics cards have 3D features, PC
    Magazine points out the data is trapped inside the card and once
    it travels to the monitor, it is squeezed onto a 2D surface.  So
    the effect is simulated 3D.  DMA has come up with a way to free the
    data so images don't just seem to float in space -- but actually
    do.

    For more, see: 

      http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2406495,00.html

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