Displays with depth: polarization technology makes 3D almost painless.

From: Advanced Imaging | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The process of simulating 3D from 2D sources has always been one of illusion and compromise, and that hasn't changed a great deal as science has progressed since the first 3D imaging of 1838. The earliest systems provided the stereoscopic illusion by using two images taken from slightly different perspectives to mimic what binocular vision provides the human eye in real time. Each image was then exclusively presented to the appropriate eye using a stereoscope that isolated each eye's filed of view and adjusted the focal point of the images. The View-Master of the 1940s provides a ...

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