“The technology could be used to produce a new generation of televisions, computer monitors and cinema screens that would provide viewers with a more realistic experience,” Gray reports. “The system relies upon a special screen that is dotted with tiny pixel-sized domes that deflect images taken from slightly different angles into the right and left eye of the viewer.”
Gray reports, “Apple also proposes using 3D imaging technology to track the movements of multiple viewers and the positions of their eyes so that the direction the image is deflected by the screen can be subtly adjusted to ensure the picture remains sharp and in 3D. The patent claims this technology would also create images that appear to be holographic because of the ability to track the observers movements.”
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… Interestik! Except for the STNG comparisons.
Come on, guys … you – we – won when the “communicator” form factor was used for the first truly “portable” cell phones. Yet, how precise was that? Except for the range, that device had nothing on any of today’s Smart Phones and you could fold a tri-corder in and still not have one of today’s App Phones!
This will be a huge gain for top-flight games and some scientific research/study. It will take a LOT of CPU cycles to power it,
OMG! It’s 3D
And with that
I take off my hat!
To all,,
The image is suspended in the Zenon mist.
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Just a thought,
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I think it’s clear that 3-D without the need for glasses is coming. Apple isn’t the only one working on it. An Israeli startup recently demonstrated a means of bringing 3-D to TVs without those glasses.
@Ken, Many real world technologies used to be SciFi. Of the really old SciFi, only a small bit has yet to either become reality or have the seeds in place for reality.
Looking back at my 1901 book, First Men in the Moon, much of it seems ridiculous today. But that has long since passed into reality, as has some of Jules Verne’s concepts. Seeds for future development of manipulation, and possible travel, in time have been in place for many years and include some of Einstein’s work. To say it is unlikely that we will get “to a point of something like a Star Trek “‘holo-dec[k]'” may be short sighted, though such would clearly not be short term.
Apple is currently the appropriate company to move us forward even clearly though some of this is still a very long ways away. The vision must be in place first. R&D follows.
Ken and HG,
You guys crack me up. I picture you sitting together sharing a bottle of Zima and discussing the ideological musings of Captain’s Kirk and Picard.
Yes, I can attest to the fact that much of the technology you discuss is relevant and in actuality rather “old hat”. We in the 30th century traipse through glorious meadows in computer generated bliss.
Although we don’t refer to them as “computers” anymore. We simply accept them as the cerebral implants we were born with.
@C3PO Jetson, Sounds like you’re agreeing with the discussion. Others here are still clueless where things are going. Steve Jobs continues to move us forward in the right direction. This is one reasons why it’s exciting to follow Apple™.
As SJ has said, he doesn’t take his lead from the customers. They are not forward thinking enough, as is clearly the case reading some other posts here. He imagines what could be, and moves to make it happen. None of what we’re talking about will happen in the 30th century, as you suggest. Assuming the finances don’t dry up, it could all happen as early as this century.
Look at the massive progress made last century from horse drawn transportation to the moon with unmanned flights to Mars and beyond. Whatever ones feelings on it, the technologies of war and medicine saw massive changes. If that degree of change occurs in the century we are now in, all that we have discussed, and more, might be seen.
My concern is that we may not have the visionaries – with money – we will need for that to occur. I hope Steve Jobs will have a long and healthy life and that others like him will move us forward.
Not to worry HG,
SJ Clone #9 nearly sunk the Apple boat in the late 27th century, but when it was discovered that #9’s cells had been sabotaged by the implantation of latent cells from BG #3 and SB the original, he was transported through the Danuvian worm hole into what we call “the quiet zone”. What really gave it away was the strange little “monkey dance” he would do in private when he thought no one could see him.
SJ #12 is doing a fantastic job in the 30th century and has Apple back on track.
A little side note: For several millennia, no one even knew what an apple was. It wasn’t until the Apple Time Warp™ was perfected that we even got a taste of the fruit you are so familiar with.
Oh and by-the-way, I didn’t say these things would occur in the 30th century, I simply stated that “We in the 30th century…” Obviously much of our current technology was perfected thousands of years ago.
You’ll have to excuse me now. It’s time for my sensory stimulation and nutrient infusion.
I’m back HG.
I also wanted say that you needn’t be concerned with the costs. Money is totally obsolete now. If you contribute to society, your sensory and life force are enhanced by your employer. If you don’t, you simply go into stasis. You’re woken roughly every ten years or so to see if you are ready to connect with the duty unit (workforce in your terminology) and be productive. If not; back to stasis. No big deal.
Another couple of side notes:
1. We find it extremely amusing that you refer to us as “Aliens” or “Grays”. We’re just the current step in the human evolutionary cycle.
2. We have achieved light speed and beyond and actually refer to it as “Warp” in deference to the late 20th century Star Trek. Someone along the way thought it would be quaint to call it that.
You might be interested to know that we don’t physically travel through space at those speeds. It’s more like we bring our destination to us at those speeds. But that, unfortunately, is way above your limited mental capacities to explain.
@C3PO Jetson… Whoa! Enough for me. I’m done.
@HG Wells,
I win!
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