And You Were Happy You Just Bought That Big Screen HDTV?
from the obsolete-already! dept
For years and years, we've been hearing predictions about the eventual future of 3D TV, but, like flying cars, it's one of those things that's always seemed to be perpetually in the future. Some have even wondered if anyone really wants 3D TV. Apparently, the Japanese government has decided for everyone that the answer must be yes, because they've created an initiative for Japanese companies to build a fully 3D TV system by 2020. This isn't "funky multi-colored glassed" 3D, but "standing over the Star Wars animated chess board" 3D, from the sound of it. Of course, it goes beyond just holographic images (something that's been done before) to the ability to touch and smell what's going on as well. Of course, the concept of being able to smell what you're watching has come up many times before... and people don't really seem that enthusiastic about it. Still, whether anyone wants it or not, apparently it's coming either way.
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Will It Increase Mental Illness?
Won't 3D programs further confuse infants' sense of reality? Our world is already a confusing array of virtual objects on TV/computer screens. What happens when TV's show violent 3-D imagery of dying children, etc. in living rooms, and parents are laughing at it? Won't it confuse little kids?
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Stop being Mr. Pessimistic all the time.
Maybe autism is the future for humans, and the people who have it have simply evolved more than the rest of us...
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Technology doesn't stop evolving. A multi-Trillion dollar potential market will not be ignored to help a few victims of autism understand the concept of reality.
If a few hundred researchers in Japan can come up with a technology like that, then why cant the Thousands of specialists worldwide, with a much more expansive budget make the same strides in understanding and treating autism?
Or perhaps the ability to simulate very real situations as easily as we watch movies now, will help create exercises to help those with mental disabilities better interact and understand better what is going on.
Your argument is ludicrous. This technology is a tool for general entertainment and education. Autism is a mental deases that will exist whether or not this technology is ever realized. Following your logic, we would have no drunk drivers if we never invented automotive.
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Now true that we need to understand what brings on this unusual arrangement of chromosomes, but it would seem to me that we should be screening for this problem before we give them vaccines that could cause them to become autistic.
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3DTV
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3D TV
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make believe still isn't real life
For all the handwringing over violence on TV and in movies and video games, nothing I have ever seen has come close to tricking me that it is real. Perhaps I have an overdeveloped sense of make-believe, but I doubt that most people take pretend violence for reality. When real violence is caught on tape it is usually plain to see that it is not glamorous or pleasant.
If we could animate with orthographic imagery that was indistinguishable from real life, IMHO the staged would be even more distinct from the unstaged. A fully convincing virtual reality would have to be carefully constructed to avoid suspicion and achieve suspension of disbelief.
On the other hand, if the government or a particular political party or religious establishment was in control of this technology, that might provide an automatic audience of believers ....
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Mischief
Smellovision. Oh joy.
The future is clear to me now. Kids hacking their neighbors tube with a lovely flatulence aroma.
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Where can we get/see real 3D Holographic Televisio
Is this "fake" or is there any such thing yet. We have a multi-billion dollar idea for it but only if THE REAL THING EXISTS NOW!
Berry Scheib
President, CEO
DESERVE, Inc. {You deserve DESERVE}
berryscheib2003@yahoo.com
Portland, Oregon
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