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- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk.tech
- Path: sparky!uunet!areyes!admiral!dave
- From: dave@admiral.uucp (Dave Litchman)
- Subject: Re: TV glasses and VR
- Organization: The Admiral's Unix System & The Grid BBS
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:43:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.004326.12011@admiral.uucp>
- References: <Marcus_Brodeur.03bi@dream.uucp>
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- In article <Marcus_Brodeur.03bi@dream.uucp> Marcus_Brodeur@dream.uucp (Marcus Brodeur) writes:
- >In a message dated Sun 15 Nov 92 6:24, Dleclair@netlink.cts.com (douglas L
- >wrote:
- >
- > DL> Actually ultra-thin glasses that are LCD-color based have
- > DL> been
- > DL> out for sometime now. I read it in the Trends section of Omni about 2
- > DL>
- > DL> years ago, so this is not really new technology. Although I am sure
- > DL> improvements have been made since the first prototype a few years
- > DL> back.
- > DL> This invention _MAY_ change VR, but what about cost? Cost is going to
- > DL> be
- > DL> relatively high until mass production is intiated, and even then it
- > DL> will
- > DL> most probably become obsolete, like everything else :)
- >
- >The pair of true 3D stereoscopic liquid crystal display glasses I mentioned
- >for the Atari ST, with adaptor and software, cost $250 4 years ago. Of
- >course, I don't know what the more advanced models of today might cost, but
- >that gives you something to start on.
-
- Those glasses (Stereotek) are no longer being produced. I've seen them
- advertised, used, for about $50.
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