From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
Subject: TECH: Mixed CRT and LCD HMDs
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 00:54:03 CET


I was having a shower this morning and this awful though came to my mind.

LCD are poor resolution. CTR are not, but usually are monochrome (I still
have to understand if the BOOM has REAL color capabilities...)

So: why not make (for an hi-end device, of course) a viewer in which you
have 4 - FOUR - screens? 2 hi-res monochrome CRTs, 2 color LCDs.
For each eye you superimpose the hi-res CRT image with the low-res LCD colored
one: I saw this done for a Mac game, in which you had an animation playing,
with the color pixels actually being big 4 times the pixels of the contours...
I think is like drawing separately the signals of CHROMA and LUMA.

>From an economic point of view I don't think this could be a great problem:
if you are able to spend some $70K for a BOOM, one or two thousands more
for better color is accetable, I suppose.

Maybe this idea is completely foolish, but maybe it's not so stupid as it
may seem. Maybe I should just sing when having a shower, like everyone does.

Let me know

Diego

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