Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:09:56 11/21/03
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On November 21, 2003 at 13:48:31, margolies,marc wrote: >X3D doesn't work on a projection screen, unfortunately it requires a tube style >TV- CRT technology. It won't work on Plasma either! >That's why this is dead in the water before it started. CRTs use too much >electricity at a large scale. And the rich who buy fancy gadgets like plasma tv >cannot just pop down 200 hundred dollars more to use these goggles on their tvs. >This guy Elliot Klein needs johnny six-pack to layout 50 bucks a head for >'bleeding edge gimmicks' in order to make out and this aint gonna happen no >mater how many times Kasparov visits New York. >The only plausible commercial tie-in X3D has in these Kasparov promotions is to >pump their stock price up <or seeking new capital>, a la Kasparov-Deep Blue >match. In my opinion, anyway. It _can_ work with LCD/plasma. It just doesn't today. In another 10 years, CRTs will be things of the past, if not within 5 more years. There's nothing to prevent alternating images on the plasma screen just like 3d does on a CRT.
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