One Screen, Multiple Views 43
First time accepted submitter e-sas writes "Researchers from the University of Bristol have built a new type of display which allows both a shared view and a personalised view to users at the same time. Through the two view-zones, PiVOT provides multiple personalized views where each personalized view is only visible to the user it belongs to while presenting an unaffected and unobstructed shared view to all users. They conceive PiVOT as a tabletop system aimed at supporting mixed-focus collaborative tasks where there is a main task requiring the focus of all individuals of the group but also concurrent smaller personal tasks needing access to information that is not usually shared e.g. a war-room setup. Imagine you and your friends playing multiplayer Starcraft on one big screen instead of individual computer screens!"
This thing is as clear as mud. (Score:2, Insightful)
From what I could gather from the video, it's just a tablet of sorts that shows different images depending on your angle.
I'm still not even sure of that though, anyone here want to translate it to idiot speak for me?
No, no, did not read full article. (Score:5, Insightful)
They put a reflective film on a LCD monitor and aimed a projector at it. [bris.ac.uk] If you're almost perpendicular to the display, you see the projected image; otherwise you see the LCD image. The setup is that the display sits flat on a table and the projector is overhead, pointing down. If you lean over the display, the image changes. The room lighting has to be dim for this to work.
It's cute, but the applications are limited.
If you really wanted many people to see different things on the same screen, the various tricks used for 3D (shutter glasses, polarization) would be more effective.
Re:This thing is as clear as mud. (Score:4, Insightful)
Mario Kart on the other hand would completely rock if you cold have two different players full screen on the same screen on the same couch.