Social hardware: the shareable display

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.

[memodude @ Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

I don't know...it looks like they can't even get the capitalization on iSight right.

[escitalopram @ Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

You'll need an extra license to use this thing with windows ;)

[john @ Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

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.

[AH @ Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

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

[Tyme @ Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

um multiple tvs and headphones maybe then?? easier and cheaper i might add....

[Tim @ Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

@5: No, because then you'd see the same image on both TVs.

Clever idea, but I'd just get two seperate computers instead.

[frizz @ Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

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.

[Trejkaz @ Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

@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.

[mojo @ Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

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.

[tron @ Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

mojo, lenticular is different from fresnel. and can't those baseball cards get more than one view?