http://futurismic.com/2007/08/30/first-3d-vdu-launched/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://futurismic.com/2007/08/30/first-3d-vdu-launched/comment-page-1/#comment-2252 Robert Koslover Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:00:58 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/08/30/first-3d-vdu-launched/#comment-2252 Believe it or not, I attended a presentation whigh showed a working 3D monitor (CRT-based) with which polarized glasses were used, fully operational and in use for medical imaging purposes, way back in the late 1980's. It worked via an electronically-controlled polarizable filter which was placed in front of the CRT display. Tthe display oscillated between images for the left and right eye, while the filter oscillated in-sync wit it, between vertical and horizontal polarization. It worked very nicely. Now I wonder why it took ~20 years to make this technology cheap enough for the mass market!? Believe it or not, I attended a presentation whigh showed a working 3D monitor (CRT-based) with which polarized glasses were used, fully operational and in use for medical imaging purposes, way back in the late 1980′s. It worked via an electronically-controlled polarizable filter which was placed in front of the CRT display. Tthe display oscillated between images for the left and right eye, while the filter oscillated in-sync wit it, between vertical and horizontal polarization. It worked very nicely. Now I wonder why it took ~20 years to make this technology cheap enough for the mass market!?

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