PANEL DISPLAYS (from The PC Technology Guide) With a 100-year head start over flat panel monitor technologies like LCD and PDP, the CRT is still a formidable technology. It’s based on universally understood principles and employs commonly available materials. The result is cheap-to-make monitors capable of excellent performance, producing stable images in true color at high display resolutions and used in applications like Computer Aided Design. However, no matter how good it is, the CRT’s most obvious shortcomings are well known: it sucks up too much electricityits single electron beam design is prone to misfocusmis convergence and color variations across the screenits clunky high-voltage electric circuits and strong magnetic fields create harmful electromagnetic radiationit’s simply too big. With even those with the biggest vested interest in CRTs spending vast sums on research and development, it is inevitable that one of the several flat panel display technologies will win out in the long run.
Rating: +2 (from 2 votes) HMDs, Caves & Chameleon: A Human-Centric Analysis of Interac. A simple schematic of HMD systems is shown in Figure 2. It represents the relationship among the eyes, hands and display. First, it shows that the eyes and display are both tightly physically coupled, and that their position is tracked.
In addition, it shows that the hands are on the “far” side of the display. Finally, it shows that all three are physically coupled, and mobile within physical space. According to these criteria, and for the purposes of this paper, boom-mounted displays, such as illustrated in Figure 3, are a variation on HMDs, as opposed to a separate category (in contrast to the analysis of Cruz-Neira, Sandin, DeFanti, Kenyon and Hart, 1992) [4]. Caves A significantly different approach to VR, called Cave VR, was introduced by Cruz-Neira, Sandin, DeFanti, Kenyon and Hart in 1992 [4]. One area where Caves differ from HMD VR is that, since the glasses are transparent, one can see the physical as well as the virtual world.
Chameleon Style VR Summary and Conclusions. xRez Extreme Resolution Photography. ImmerVision. PMVR (Patented Mappable VR) -- a Java 360 panoramic image viewer. PMVRTM - Patented Mappable VR PMVR is an HTML5 panorama viewer, that displays high resolution panoramas, with an optional map/floorplan, on web sites, demo CDs, Kiosks, etc: No plugin / Runs everywhere: There is NO PLUGIN. PMVR is HTML5 based, which means that it will work in ALL modern web browsers — on smartphones, tablets, computers (Windows, OSX, Unix, etc). FAST / Fullscreen PMVR uses the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) on your device to ensure high-quality and smooth graphics, and enables full-screen capabilities (example seen right on a 1080p HD monitor). Patented Technology: PMVR is a unique panoramic viewer, displaying an optional FloorPlan/Map. which greatly enhances a viewers ability to walk through a 'mappable' environment and understand 'direction'.
See US Patent #6563529. Tour Authoring Software: PMVR comes with the Virtual Tour Editor authoring tool, which takes care of all the hard work for you. Next, add the FloorPlan div id into the PMVR bindto call: PMVR is shareware. PTVIewer Helmut Dersch. 3D Steroscopic Imaging Hardware and Software. Electronic paper: Flexible active-matrix electronic ink display. Sharp's 3D monitors: Look, no glasses | CNET News.com. Stereoscopic Displays and Applications.