not poi related

one of the guys in my dept works with sharp on developing these 3d monitors.... he has a couple in his office. they are pretty cool to view 3d on, but when i saw them (admittedly this was a while ago) the 3d image was not crisp and clean like normal monitor images. still flocking impressive tho

It's hardly that clever though... it's just exploiting the fact that we have stereoscopic vision. It's a little bit more cunning than those two-colour 3D glasses, but not hugely.

This doesn't apply anything about how our minds work though. As I said, it just exploits the fact that we have stereoscopic vision, which is more a matter of physiology than psychology.

Now the technology where people can control computers just by thinking, that is truly exploiting our understanding of the brain.

have to say im with spiralx on this one...

its only psychology in the same sense that stereoscopic vision in our every day 3d environment is... (obviously there is some hardcore resoning going on up top to 'interpret' the streo image but the 3d display doesnt need to understand that reasoning, it simply recreates it with an alternative style of input)

i would say the technology was based on physiology, but that its still reet clever...

[quote="Rev"]I'm saying the phsyisology that I learned this under was in my 3000 level psych course and was covered in again in my 7000 level psych course.. (to whihc this semester I'll see if it is in yet another..)

Are you sure about that? My ex was doing psychology while we were at uni specialising in the visual system and I used to help her revise and stuff reasonably often, and I've never heard of anything like that. My understanding was that the information from both eyes was combined before any semantic processing occured.

I think this is definitely an area of overlap. A lot of schools are setting up interdisciplinary departments in "Neuroscience" to cover this... Because there's also a computer science component that deals with logic and artificial intelligence. One of my close friends got a doctorate in psychology, but focused on the physiological aspects of perception and cognition (I think...).

However, I doubt that this particular product has much to do with the perception effects learned by psych people... I suspect that it just physically projects a different image in two slightly different directions. Think about what happens when you're at an odd angle from an LCD screen... now if you aimed that effect in the right way, and people were willing to stand still and not move their heads so much, you could totally pull off a stereoscopic effect.

orbit youre spot on... the displays have quite a restricted area from which to view the full 3d-ness-issity-atude

its a clever extension of the classic 2d magic eye pics... one of the intermediate stages(again... ish) being moving 2d magic eye stuff (does anybody else remember that episode of 'tomorrow's world'?)