Stereo Displays Add A New Dimension to Work

Lenny Lipton, StereoGraphics Corp.

If commercially available stereoscopic displays could work without special glasses and be viewed from virtually any angle, by any number of people at once, we would probably view all three-dimensional data stereoscopically. Alas, such a technology is but a dream in the minds of inventors and science fiction writers.
There are, however, several good choices for electronic stereoscopic displays. End users, OEMs, system integrators and application developers have a choice of several proven technologies embodied in products, some of which have been in production for almost a decade. World-wide, tens of thousands devoted users enjoy dependable stereo-vision displays to enhance their visualization of data. This article describes the current state of the art in field-sequential displays using active or passive eyewear, head mounted displays, polarized pixel displays and columnar autostereoscopic displays…