Another day, another...day

[andrewducker]

Somewhat strangely blah day today. Slept....mediocrely. Surfed the web a bit. Went shopping for groceries. Had a bath. Ate food. Feel disconnected somewhat.

I _still_ have the cold. It's not crippling me, but it did mean I woke up last night coughing twice, and I still feel out of it and generally tired/pointless.

I really hope I feel better tomorrow, both physically and emotionally.

Meantime, have some of the things I've been using to stave off boredom:

robhu provided this youtube video of head-tracking with a Wii-mote. Which sounds dull, but looks _amazing_

He also provided a list of reasons not to take a theory of programming course. Favourite reason:

You know that you'll be programming in FORTRAN, er... Pascal, no, wait, ... C, no, ummm... C++, no, wait, definitely Java (well, maybe C#), for the rest of your career.

and
Coraline sneak preview via officialgaiman

Right - off to spend time with the family again. Hope you're all having fun.

Comments

[chuma.livejournal.com]

GENIUS!

Nintendo take note... PLEASE!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

OT: 300 vid was BRILL!!!

[avatar.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, colour me impressed!

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Neat. Now, if you combine that with the flashing screen liquid crystal stereoglasses we were using for molecular modelling twenty years ago, you'd really have something....

[andrewducker]

I've had LCD Stereo glasses for the PC. Which were cool. But not as cool as the latest tech - which is polarised light, vertical for the left eye, horizontal for the right eye. This means that the glasses can be entirely passive, but the TV/projector has to be more complex. That's how I saw Beowulf 3D, and how this monitor works:
http://iz3d.com/

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Yup, if you want cheap glasses (I'd thought that the cinema ones used left- and right- circularly polarised light to minimise glare problems), you're stuck with a very expensive display, while if you want a cheap display, you're paying through the nose for the glasses.

The first ones we used were pretty opaque even when "on", so had to be in a darkened room. It also didn't help that the only easily machined liquid crystal with a fast enough response time was an organolead compound that took greater than mains voltage to switch.

But yeah, that monitor looks neat!

[andrewducker]

The main problem with the modern approach/doing it on the PC is that it halves the refresh rate. Which means older games are fine, but newer ones grind to a halt...