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Re: [photo-3d] shutter glasses have changed


  • From: Ron Beck <rbeck@xxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [photo-3d] shutter glasses have changed
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:32:21 -0500



Tom Deering wrote:
> 
> I was wrong.  And I going to admit it publicly, right here.
[snip...]
> 
> But things have sure changed.  Everything, really.  1) Mac users can
> now use cheap shutter glasses.  This is because 2) there's a new kind
> that requires no special video card, no special drivers, no software
> at all.  3) Shutter glasses have come way down in price. $29 will get
> you a pair you won't hate.  4) Monitors with high refresh rates are
> much more common, so the flicker is gone.  5) They're not goggles
> anymore.  You could wear a wireless pair in public and no one would
> notice.  6) It seems like 3D content is popping up all over the web
> and elsewhere.
> 
> And how did I come to see the light?  Well, a vendor I work with sent
> me a couple pair of the new glasses for a 3D video project.  It was
> only a matter of time before I was using them for computer images in
> addition to video.

And, the maker of these fabulous glasses is?  And I can get them
where???

I have a pair of "bulky" wireless glasses that I don't use anymore
because it was such a pain to make them work right and I didn't have
that much 3D computer pics anyway.  However, now I have a scanner and a
Loreo so I'm ready to go.

Ron