iZombie: Apple Patents 3-D Display
The USPTO published a patent application from Apple today describing a “three-dimensional display system.” Pretty soon that Meatloaf video on your ipod will scream out at ya like a 3-D bat out of hell!
According to Apple:
Recent developments in computers and computer graphics have made spatial 3D images more practical and accessible. The computational power now exists, for example, for desktop workstations to generate stereoscopic image pairs quickly enough for interactive display. At the high end of the computational power spectrum, the same technological advances that permit intricate object databases to be interactively manipulated and animated now permit large amounts of image data to be rendered for high quality 3D displays.
There is also a growing appreciation that two-dimensional projections of 3D scenes, traditionally referred to as “3D computer graphics”, can be insufficient for inspection, navigation, and comprehension of some types of multivariate data. Without the benefit of 3D rendering, even high quality images that have excellent perspective depictions still appear unrealistic and flat. For such application environments, the human depth cues of stereopsis, motion parallax, and (perhaps to a lesser extent) ocular accommodation are increasingly recognized as significant and important for facilitating image understanding and realism.
Tags: Apple, 3-D-Displays
Recent Comments