Sharp Develops Triple Directional Viewing LCD 220
morpheus83 writes "Sharp Corporation and Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd. (SLE) have developed the Triple Directional Viewing LCD, a display that controls the viewing angle so that the display can show different images from the left, right, and center simultaneously. Using proprietary parallax barrier on a standard TFT LCD, the screen splits light in three directions — left, right, and center — and displays three separate images on the same screen at the same time. So connect three computers to the LCD and from the center you see Windows, Linux from the left and MacOS from the right."
Laptops? (Score:5, Funny)
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First, PLEASE perfect the two-image version (Score:4, Interesting)
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Never, I repeat, NEVER, use that phrase whem making a reference to goatse...
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Very fancy - BUT (Score:5, Interesting)
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That makes a certain amount of sense to me; with viewers essentially strapped in place, you can make sure everybody sees exactly the perspective they're supposed to. Also, in those circumstances, you aren't going to demand especially high resolution--as long as you can make out the information presented, you're OK. (Admittedly, the kid in the backseat playing on his PS2 might want better resolution, but that's his problem. In my day, if we wanted to play PS2, we had to actually get out of our car and walk inside.)
They also mention the possibility of using it for displaying multiple ads in public, so that the ad you see varies depending on whether you are coming ("You're just a few feet away from Joe's Cafe!") or going ("Turn around! You just missed the best restaurant in town!").
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Actually, I'd be surprised if they didn't already sell privacy barriers for laptops that double as screen protectors when the laptop is closed, with a bonus panel for the top to cut down on glare from overhead lighting. The closest I've found is this laptop hood [dpreview.com] (scroll down) that folds like those collapsible windshield sunscreens.
You know, if they made them in yellow, you'd look like you're about to be eaten by a Pac-Man.
(The ones for camera LCD screens will make you look like you're pointing it the wrong way.)
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IE you have a 15" screen, a 15" mirror. It collapses down to a 15" form factor for transport, but you have a 30" (ok well 15" + 15*sin(45) = 26") widescreen monitor.
(or just use a 17" mirror.)
but your viewpoint would have to be absolultly fixed in relation to the computer for the mirrored screen to be affective.
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(see? this is why patents suck!
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In my day, if we wanted to play PS/2 it was pronounced "Odyssey 2 [wikipedia.org]."
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Or you could use it for the instrument cluster itself!
"Honey, aren't we driving kinda fast?"
"No Dear, as you can see from the speedometer, we're only going 65."
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The
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Your brain will compensate.
Cereal box kids toy cards (Score:1)
View from the left and you see a truck, in the middle its bits, on the right its a robot *SHOCK*
actually sounds quite nice for computers, but fail to see usage really.
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Or billboards that do the same trick, as you drive past them the ad changes. Now you can rent out billboard space to more than one advertiser.
multi what? (Score:3, Insightful)
I thought everyone wanted to have a system with multiple screens supporting the same desktop, not one screen supporting multiple desktops. I don't see the advantage of this over a nice KVM.
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The application was in TFA (Score:2)
In that specific circumstance, it makes a great deal of sense as you have limited space, predictable viewing locations and a fairly small number of reasonable applications, few of which require full UXGA resolution and practically none of which require the full refresh available. When gfx hardware rou
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Ding... (Score:2)
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This is about the only practical solution I can see here. The notion of putting all this in a car is a joke. Everyone wants their own screen in their face.
Now all we need.... (Score:2, Funny)
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Wooden pannels on my chevy (Score:1)
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Waoo (Score:1, Funny)
Great for work (Score:5, Funny)
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Great, but... (Score:2, Insightful)
All in all, it's not going to be useful for interactive use.
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I personally can't imagine that there is a huge need for this, but for those people who want that sort of thing, it would beat the hell out of Picture in Picture. . .
The Hexible (Score:2)
As if cubicles aren't small enough, now PHB's can gather six workers on a hex shaped table (three to a side) where each user shares the screen with two others. The only perceivable wall dividing anything now would be the one splitting the two halves of the hexagon.
What's next, pizza slice shaped post-it notes to fit comfortably within the confines of the hexlet table?
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So if this tech really does take off, I would not be surprised to see myself and others working in a "hexicle" soon enough... (sadly)
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Painful to look at? (Score:4, Insightful)
missing the point? (Score:2, Interesting)
I can think of several uses:
1) If you use only 2 of the images and change the angles, each eye could be getting a different image. Instant 3D. Nice.
2) This could be a first step if in later generations you can get more images. Imagine actually being able to look around things on your screen without having to manipulate the object with a mouse and keyboard.
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Ugh. Not really nice. For 3D to work you need two images. There is a dividing line in space between the two images. In order for each eye to see a different image, that dividing line must fall between your eyes. You now have only an inch or so of allowable lateral head movement. I challenge you so sit at your desk without moving your head more than an inch left or right for any significan
as a father of two small children (Score:5, Insightful)
my car has a rear dvd player, with wireless headphones for the kids
imagine if they could watch their own programs-- their angle of view/location in the back seat
is vey quantifiable (if they aren't killing each other)
and if there is a third person in the middle-- voila!
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"So while driving you can see the GPS navigation your kid at the backseat can enjoy Ace Combat on his PS2 while your wife in the passenger seat checks out tourist sites and restaurants all in full-screen view. Sharp Triple Directional Viewing LCD is also ideal for multipurpose signs in public."
Better use (Score:2)
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
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I thought that was insightful although I had been thinking that internet cafes might have been better customers for really squeezing people in.
MacOS on the right?! (Score:5, Funny)
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No, I don't think it has to do with the users, but the platform itself. Obviously Linux should be on the left because it is "free" and not controlled by anyone.
MacOS should be on the right - it reflects a singular vision (of Steve Jobs). Although many people at Apple work on MacOS X, I have it on good authority that Steve makes all the final calls himself on how it should look/work. (And frankly, I can't think of a better real world example of Plato's
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Ads (Score:4, Insightful)
Imagine walking past a video-game store. As you walk past an LCD advertisement you see three different video games depending on your angle. Two of which may not be interesting. But that third, may. All done with one screen, saving money.
The compactness of one video-screen emphasizes the efficiency. Instead of having to avert our eyes to see another image we focus on the single screen, thus avoiding a clutter of LCD's, which has the school-of-fish impact, where we can't focus on any of them.
And, of course, everyone if fascinated with optical effects.
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Just what this world needs, more adds.
I think the monitor has uses, insted or virtual desktops, you only need to change you position to see another desktop.
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Imagine the fun
Burma Shave
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Disclaimer: I worked at SLE, but no longer work there.
I worked opposite these guys for a year, and saw some of the early tech demos (mid-2005). The technology
Forget the flat screens (Score:4, Interesting)
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Besides, "cheaper" alternatives can always be the excuse when a technology is in its infancy (no doubt, someone in this thread has already suggested a KVM switchbox as
Layout is all wrong (Score:2)
So how do you get at least a four view version of the screen?
Replicate Three Dimensions (Score:2, Insightful)
The monitor could be calibrated for the distance you typically sit away from the monitor, and replicate what your eyes already do: glean 3D information from the difference in each eye's POV.
Think: Fully 3D FPS games.
Think: fully-immersive desktop UIs which can take advantage of that "z" dimension.
Auto-stereo displays (Score:3, Informative)
Makes sense, seeing as how with that kind of parallax, you'd need to keep your nose basically right along the midline axis of the screen; if you got even a few degrees off, you'd be seeing just the image designed for one eye (and at half the normal resoluti
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Think: Motion sickness
Think: Massive headaches
Think: Eye-strain
Emulating 3D with simple tricks like this never work. It's too sensitive and they tend to only work for a very specific eye position. Real life requires a lot of tiny movements we can't control.
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think motion sickness
and massive headaches, too
eye-strain tops it off
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haikus are hard when you can't
count to seven or five
Multi-angle dvd's (Score:2)
Ultra Extreme Programming (Score:5, Funny)
Just what cubicle warriors have been waiting for (Score:3, Insightful)
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Use your display at an angle?! (Score:2)
Yeah, because we'd all like to use our computers like if we were watching the screen of the computer next to us.
Besides, I think everyone would prefer to have huge display [digitaltigers.com] for a single computer rather than three computer with a single display. And with an intel Mac, you already can run OS X, Linux and Windows on the same computer.
I can imagine that some people might be able to come up with
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see also... (Score:2)
Potential Uses (Score:2)
Differing subtitles: A German presentation offers viewers who may benefit from French subtitles to sit to the left, and English subtitles to sit on the right. Perhaps a marketing presentation gets a similar treatment with t
3 Player Gaming (Score:2)
That vanderpool virtuethingie (Score:2)
Three computers? What a waste. We have virtualization [parallels.com] these days.
Order (Score:2)
3d? (Score:2)
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>please tell me what this technology does for me?
no, go RTfuckingA you lazy bastard (that goes for the rest of you too).
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There are a number of ways to build a 360 view of a product out of still photos, but they are all intended to be viewed by one person sitting in front of a screen. With more viewing angles (and monitors) a similar display could be made that in intended for multiple viewers who are simply walking around.
I'm not sure what the application for that might be, but I'm just the photographer.
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Might take a bit of getting used to and the kind of firms that would want everyone using 3 screens probably also want very high quality. It would save a lot of space.
a step away (Score:2)
Furthermore, this approach to 3D is not holographic; it doesn't give you correct motion parallax.
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