Good call on VLI.v Dave.
I am enjoying your discussions of DDE.v on the SI thread, and the research on DDE you are bringing to us. The 3d applications I'm most familiar with are,
1) what we see with the cheap blue and red glasses at Disney World Orlando or Universal, where the characters from the screen seem to wiz around you (but such 3d effects require multiple projectors, sound systems and special computer setups)
2) the full face and head helmet used by computer gamers and plane simulators which make you believe you are in a holo suite like Startrek. Characters and scenery move around you as you move about(such equipment also requires powerful computers to run).
I have physically ducked to avoid being hit by characters wizzing right at me in both cases, although the characters were obviously not really there.
About 6 months ago, I was going to download the programs from DDE that you need to see the 3d effects on the computer monitor. Unfortunately at that time you still needed the glasses to view the effects which discouraged me from proceeding. This kind of 3d technology has been available in North America for more than a decade, and several specially produced tv programs allow you to view these on normal television sets. The demand has never been that great for these movies in North America, even when presented in movie theatre venues. Certainly modern computers and projection equipment are making such movies less cartoonish, and more like real-life, but are we at commercial acceptance yet? True 3d that would satisfy me would be a set where I could walk around the characters and view the set and characters from different angles, true startrek holo-suite stuff. This is only possible with the gamers headset at present to the best of my knowledge. To do this without a video helmet would require holo projectors all around you in a special room. I saw such a room in a museum once, but you could not go into the room, you had to walk around it on a donut shaped walkway to view the room and character holograms from different directions. It was not possible to enter the room as your body would block the holographic light and characters would disappear as you walked between the projectors and the characters.
I guess if I could buy a tv set that gives me 3d effects without needing the glasses, I agree that would enhance the commercial viability, but do the 3d effects seem to come out of the television set into the room like at Disney, or do they just remain in the tv screen and you get the 3d depth feeling as you look into the tv? I think you need the characters projecting into the room at you, like the recently produced Anaconda snake movie in which the snake appeared to jump out of the screen at you. Then again what do I know, some people buy all sorts of things I wouldn't (ggggggggggggg),...then again, I probably buy lots of things that they wouldn't.
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