CES: DLP Dual-View TV for Local Co-Op Gaming

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I’m giving this the “stupidest tech at CES” award. With multiplayer on the rise, broadband becoming more and more pervasive… the need to invest a dual-display DLP that requires wearing stupid special glasses in order for 2 players to see 2 separate images from the same TV in order to cater to local multiplayer only… you just have to appreciate that this tech is dead out of the gates:

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Ztimster Says:
April 18th, 2008 at 11:37 am

Unfortunately you are too narrow minded to see the implication of this technology. If you pair it with head tracking (see Johnny Lee’s research http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ )then you can have two player VR gaming in your living room. Or strobe between the right and left eye to achieve TRUE STEREOSCOPIC 3D on a flat panel TV.

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Riyad Kalla Says:
April 21st, 2008 at 8:10 am

Tim,
As soon as Samsung releases this TV, with workable 3D support that does what you say, I’ll retract my statement of “stupidest tech at CES”.

I think 3D is going to be the next hot topic, but not for atleast 10 years for the mainstream consumer at home.

Theaters are just beginning to roll out the technology to support it (check out this months’ Fortune magazine).

We are still in the middle of “HD” getting adopted across the board, and that’s going to take atleast another 5 years to taper off.

Also when I say mainstream consumer I mean folks walking into Walmart buying 3D devices and media, I don’t mean some tech-head gamer having a 3D device or Lee’s research (As awesome as it is… that Wii/head-tracking demo is insanely cool).

I honestly think it will take atleast 10 years for 3D to become mainstream and the technology will change significantly between now and then.

So regardless of what you are speculating *could* be done with the Samsung set, what they *are* doing is 2-player on a single-screen… which probably 11 people will think is cool, and are willing to pay the premium and wear the glasses to get.

You’d never buy this TV… and neither would I.

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