Every Simmers Dream

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Every Simmers Dream

Post by :FI:Noter » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:54 pm

How awesome would these be? Anyone wanna bet Apple comes out with these before Oleg finishes SoW...

http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/07/appl ... /#comments
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Post by :FI:Heloego » Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:39 am

Actually, these things have been marketed by other companies before.

I recall one that used a shutter method to simulate 3D, but the drawback was the nausea induced by them. None of them have ever really taken the world by storm due to weight, comfort, nausea, etc.
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Post by :FI:Falcon » Sat Nov 08, 2008 3:09 pm

... low resolution, blurriness, poor colors, scares small children ...
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Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Sat Nov 08, 2008 5:53 pm

:FI:Heloego wrote:the drawback was the nausea induced by them.
I had some glasses like that in the '60s
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Re: Every Simmers Dream

Post by :FI:Heloego » Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:36 am

Some of us still do! ;) :lol:
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