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No, but somehow I hoped the following would happen that could have made the tech useful: instead of having a pair of glasses each one with left+right filters, h

by lloeki 10y ago

No, but somehow I hoped the following would happen that could have made the tech useful: instead of having a pair of glasses each one with left+right filters, have two pair of glasses, one with "left" filters on both eyes and one with "right" filters on both eyes, with "left" frames coming from one input and "right" frames from another one, so that the TV can be used by two persons simultaneously (obviously without 3D). Basically that's interleaving two input sources and demuxing each one to each corresponding viewer with the glasses. For audio headsets would be fine. Of course watching a romantic movie next to someone frantically playing a BF1 match probably wouldn't fly.

BoorishBears 10y ago
It did (kind of) happen with LG's Dual Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbRG-KfWyVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbRG-KfWyVc And other 3D TVs could replicate the idea: https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/gaming/split-screen-game-full-screen/ https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/gaming/split-screen-game-... Both took advantage of the fact most 3D formats were just two images side by side, so if you took something that could put two separate streams side by side like this: http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/splitmux-hd-2lc.html http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/splitmux-hd-2lc.html You could do exactly what you described. One problem I could see would be any cross-talk. Normally cross-talk makes things look blurry, any cross-talk would result in seeing fringes of something completely unrelated to what you're viewing. But with active glasses (or high quality passive displays) I don't think it'd be much of an issue.
- lloeki 10y ago
  > LG's Dual Play That's exactly it! The "no more split screen" use case is also something I thought of but forgot about :-)
  - Keyframe 10y ago
    The Playstation TV from Sony had that feature as well: http://kotaku.com/5809230/the-playstation-tv-a-cheap-3dtv-for-everybody http://kotaku.com/5809230/the-playstation-tv-a-cheap-3dtv-fo...
  - kuschku 10y ago
    SONY also has it: SimulView™ it’s called there (we just bought a TV that happens to have it)
leadingthenet 10y ago
That actully sounds like a great idea. Wonder why it was never considered?

by lloeki 10y ago

BoorishBears 10y ago

It did (kind of) happen with LG's Dual Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbRG-KfWyVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbRG-KfWyVc And other 3D TVs could replicate the idea: https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/gaming/split-screen-game-full-screen/ https://www.tweaking4all.com/video/gaming/split-screen-game-... Both took advantage of the fact most 3D formats were just two images side by side, so if you took something that could put two separate streams side by side like this: http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/splitmux-hd-2lc.html http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/splitmux-hd-2lc.html You could do exactly what you described. One problem I could see would be any cross-talk. Normally cross-talk makes things look blurry, any cross-talk would result in seeing fringes of something completely unrelated to what you're viewing. But with active glasses (or high quality passive displays) I don't think it'd be much of an issue.

lloeki 10y ago
> LG's Dual Play That's exactly it! The "no more split screen" use case is also something I thought of but forgot about :-)
- Keyframe 10y ago
  The Playstation TV from Sony had that feature as well: http://kotaku.com/5809230/the-playstation-tv-a-cheap-3dtv-for-everybody http://kotaku.com/5809230/the-playstation-tv-a-cheap-3dtv-fo...
- kuschku 10y ago
  SONY also has it: SimulView™ it’s called there (we just bought a TV that happens to have it)

leadingthenet 10y ago

That actully sounds like a great idea. Wonder why it was never considered?