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- From: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
- Subject: Re: x-specs demos?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.125031.13178@daimi.aau.dk>
- Sender: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- References: <1dbi70INNaoe@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> <1992Nov5.190509.7410@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 12:50:31 GMT
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- clueless@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:
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- >Boy Wonder (bubblz@ecst.csuchico.edu) wrote:
- >: Well, I can tell you where I got mine. My roomates went to a 3-D Porno movie
- >: here in Chico, California, and the theatre was giving them out. So, if you
- >: want to spend alot of $$$ to get a piece of cardboard and plastic, come on
- >: down to Chico and watch a 3D Porno!!! (Gives new meaning to the phrase
- >: "Cumming at you") :-)
- >Unfortunately, X-Specs are not just pieces of plastic and cardboard. They
- >are goggles that fit over your eye, and have lcd shutters for each eye.
- >The shutters oscillate between transparent and opaque 30 times a second, and
- >while the left one is opaque, the right is transparent... So all the software
- >has to do is alternate images 30 times/sec and provide the right images and
- >you'll see stuff in full color, flickery 3d.
- >
- >That's how it works in NTSC land, I'm assuming it would be every 25th of
- >a second over in PAL.
-
- Well the xspecs you need to watch the "3rd Dimension" is the ones made out of
- cardboard and plastic (red and green)
-
- >: -Jason
-
- Carsten
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