Social hardware: the shareable display
By Barb Dybwad 
posted June 11th 2005 10:30AM
posted June 11th 2005 10:30AM
Kids fighting over the family PC again? Here's a way to appease them both. Jeremy Newton's thesis project is an interactive multi-view screen that lets more than one viewer see and interact with a moving image or application on the same screen at the same time. Now little Annie can play Halo 2 while nerd child Danny does homework without infighting — interactive telecommunications meets domestic therapy, and no one gets hurt.
I don't know...it looks like they can't even get the capitalization on iSight right.
You'll need an extra license to use this thing with windows ;)
looks really good to me except if there doing a lot of different things then you might see a glare of what there doing..for example..
if one person was looking at a white screen and the other a black screen...then those two might interfere and it would cause a grayish screen to appear...still looks very cool.
The real use for this is for advertisers in department stores... They put up a display that progresses as you walk and starts over for the next person to walk by while still going on for oyu
um multiple tvs and headphones maybe then?? easier and cheaper i might add....
@5: No, because then you'd see the same image on both TVs.
Clever idea, but I'd just get two seperate computers instead.
If this thing can track two heads and display a different image to each, couldn't you get it to track two eyes? Show a slightly shifted viewpoint to each eye and you've got yourself an easy to use 3d display.
@6: Not necessarily, several video cards can do different output to each port.
I guess that using a dual head video card would work too.
it's called a 'fresnel lens', and this is *hardly* new. when i was a kid they had baseball cards that worked on the same principle. you'd need twice the computing power for this to be effective, and this is *not*a multi-view monitor; it's dual-view. how is this even innovative? there's already displays on the market that have built-in fresnels to give a stereoscopic effect.
mojo, lenticular is different from fresnel. and can't those baseball cards get more than one view?