Apple: Stereoscopic Displays?
I can't credit the 10gig iPod to any one particular source, as it's like saying "there will be faster Macs"...
However... one item which made the MacWorld San Francisco Rumor Roundup was this tidbit from a Jan 3, 2002 EETimes article:
In addition to the desktops, Apple is expected to roll out a new high-end desktop LCD monitor. The existing 22-inch Apple Cinema Display, which sports a 1,600 x 1,024 resolution, will be superceded by a model with a 2,048 x 1,280 display.
The new screen's exact size has not been made public, but analyst Doherty said "it's bigger than an HDTV." Though something of a glamour product, the display is expected to find use in Apple's traditional publishing markets as a monitor suitable for checking color matching on two simultaneously displayed 11 x 17 inch pages.
While this is nice to realize after the fact... it may bring some further credibility to other information found in the article:
Separately, Apple is said to have other flat-panel technologies cooking in the labs, including stereoscopic displays.
Stereoscopic displays would presumably simulate 3d/VR environments. A bit unique for the consumer market... but an interesting area of research for Apple.
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I can't credit the 10gig iPod to any one particular source, as it's like saying "there will be faster Macs"...
However... one item which made the MacWorld San Francisco Rumor Roundup was this tidbit from a Jan 3, 2002 EETimes article:
In addition to the desktops, Apple is expected to roll out a new high-end desktop LCD monitor. The existing 22-inch Apple Cinema Display, which sports a 1,600 x 1,024 resolution, will be superceded by a model with a 2,048 x 1,280 display.
The new screen's exact size has not been made public, but analyst Doherty said "it's bigger than an HDTV." Though something of a glamour product, the display is expected to find use in Apple's traditional publishing markets as a monitor suitable for checking color matching on two simultaneously displayed 11 x 17 inch pages.
While this is nice to realize after the fact... it may bring some further credibility to other information found in the article:
Separately, Apple is said to have other flat-panel technologies cooking in the labs, including stereoscopic displays.
Stereoscopic displays would presumably simulate 3d/VR environments. A bit unique for the consumer market... but an interesting area of research for Apple.
'The company is also expected to offer dual processor versions of the iMac for the first time, though those models might not be unveiled until an event in Tokyo later this year'
Wow! That sort of brings the iMac upto desktop power if they ever do that. I can't imagine this ever happening without a G5 being available.
Originally posted by dukestreet
Here's a tidbit from that article
'The company is also expected to offer dual processor versions of the iMac for the first time, though those models might not be unveiled until an event in Tokyo later this year'
Wow! That sort of brings the iMac upto desktop power if they ever do that. I can't imagine this ever happening without a G5 being available.
This is far less likely since adding a dual processor would increase the production cost of the iMac... and they are already battling prices.
arn
(i admittedly haven't looked at the legal and biz small print, but...)
They have so much research thrown into technologies
such as RT 3D visualization, VR, stereoscopic googles,
as well as many others in the visualization arena.
Apple could use the HW guys for processor, mobos, and grx.
Can you say "OpenGL gurus". I'm sure Apple could put their
server guys to use (just not server marketing people).
Give a little thanks, and make a small sacrifice to the OpenSource
gods. Take a bunch of the code in IRIX and throw it into Darwin.
(sure, easier said than done...)
10.2 is rumored to have IRIX-like minimized window-boxes (that
you pull out of the dock).
And of course, buying SGI would really help out when the Maya
team comes on board Apple ; )
Originally posted by AmbitiousLemon
it was my understanding (perhaps my erroneous understanding so correct me if im wrong) that sterioscopic monitors would deliver photorealism not vr or 3d. maybe im getting all this ne tsuff mixed up but isnt the new ibm lcd monitor described as stereoscopic. the one with the super resolution that gives photorealistic displays. anyone got all of this straight, cuz im gettin' a bit confused.
AmbitiousLemon...
you very well may be right... I have no other info than that in the article...
let me know... in my research of stereoscopic displays it seems it had to do with 3d displays.
arn
And if the "Stereoscopic" display will display more photorealistic images.... well, doesn't IBM already have a new type of LCD that's both brighter and sharper than the high-end LCD's of today?? Also, isn't IBM and Kodak working on something similar, but for PDA's?
Who knows.... but I'm sure the technology is about 3-5 years away!
looks liek i was wrong again (seems ive been doing that a lot lately)
stereoscopic displays are exactly as arn described. 3d. ibm has 3 or 4 white papers on these and they work by using two displays actually. one for the left eye and one for the right eye. the user wears a goggles head piece that forces each eye to see only one of teh displays. so each image is integrated by the user's brain into a 3d image much the same way we experience 3d in the real world (each eye sees from its own perspective). these displays are hooked uyp to large servers because of the processing power involved in creating these two perspectives. if any of you have seen one of the 3d imax films, guess what... that was stereoscopic vision just as i described. so although this sound srather experimental it is being used.
and the photorealistic monitor i was getting confused with. its is here: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ebusiness/innovations/roentgen_middle_yes.html
and is simply (as if such a huge engineering feat were simple) a monitor with very high resolution... so high it creates photorealistic images.
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