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- From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: TECH: Mixed CRT and LCD HMDs
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 00:54:03 CET
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- I was having a shower this morning and this awful though came to my mind.
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- LCD are poor resolution. CTR are not, but usually are monochrome (I still
- have to understand if the BOOM has REAL color capabilities...)
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- So: why not make (for an hi-end device, of course) a viewer in which you
- have 4 - FOUR - screens? 2 hi-res monochrome CRTs, 2 color LCDs.
- For each eye you superimpose the hi-res CRT image with the low-res LCD colored
- one: I saw this done for a Mac game, in which you had an animation playing,
- with the color pixels actually being big 4 times the pixels of the contours...
- I think is like drawing separately the signals of CHROMA and LUMA.
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- >From an economic point of view I don't think this could be a great problem:
- if you are able to spend some $70K for a BOOM, one or two thousands more
- for better color is accetable, I suppose.
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- Maybe this idea is completely foolish, but maybe it's not so stupid as it
- may seem. Maybe I should just sing when having a shower, like everyone does.
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- Let me know
-
- Diego
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