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by Roger D. Williams :: Rate this Message:

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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:05:24 +0900, panovrx <mediavr@...> wrote:

> Roger
> I dont understand how the Iz3d screen works but there is a a white
> paper linked to their site but it is beyond me. there are two LCD
> screens one on top of the other close together. One is black and
> white and the other is colour and more normal looking. The black and
> white screen controls the polarization of the light going through it
> and controls the visibility to either eye of information encoded at a
> subpixel level in the color image -- I think --

Well, that makes sense, because essentially the switching mechanism
for liquid crystal displays in general utilizes the polarization
effect. I should have thought of that, having done enough translations
 from Japanese on the subject over the years. It's the same principle
as the LCD shutters used on some copy machines/printers.

> The screen looks like a normal (quite good actually) LCD screen
> without glasses.
>
> Ghosting means the left image say is visible slightly thru the right
> lens even tho it shdnt be -- and produces a halo outline especially
> against a light background.

I see. Not good.

> Yes HMD= head mounted display. I made the stereo panorama background
> for instance for this multimedia art piece a while back
> http://www.icinema.unsw.edu.au/projects/prj_conversations.html
> Video characters appeared to run around in 3d in the 3d panorama and
> talk to you.

Fascinating. If I were younger I would probably be jumping into this
field. I am fortunately still young enough to enjoy its benefits!

Roger W.

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