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- From: clueless@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
- Subject: Re: x-specs demos?
- References: <1992Nov7.125031.13178@daimi.aau.dk>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:53:50 GMT
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- Carsten S|rensen (u920659@daimi.aau.dk) wrote:
- : clueless@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:
- :
- : >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
- :
- Well, then they're not x-specs.... They're just plain 3d glasses....
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