Yeah, I mean, clearly we should have skipped the whole LCD screen fad anyway and stuck to CRT for the time being because it will all be replaced by something better 10 years from now.
From reading the article, I'd say they're doing it right. I'm very interested in this. It has the potential to be affordable enough to use, and when you go virtual reality, you need a personal display anyway. As long as they have learnt enough from previous failures to do it right this time with no medical implications, I have good faith in this as the quality of the picture appears to be very good already.
@Humus: my thoughts almost exactly.
I most definitely hope CRT technology dies for good and forever. I never ever hated any technology more than this one.
I've been using PCs for long periods of time after 1995, when I bought my first computer.
I was born myopic, I got it from my mother, and I've been using glasses and contact lenses since I was 3 years old. Short sightedness usually increases as a natural process, not because of ageing, but because of the nature of it. That's why in order to have an eye operation using laser to remove all the dioptres you have, doctors ask you to wait two years getting ophthalmology checkups before performing a laser operation to have your myopia removed.
After I began to use desktop PCs every eye checkup I had showed that my myopia was increasing significantly. I used to change glasses every two years or so -sometimes after a year-. This happened for about 12 years, until 2007 or so when I began to use laptops with LCD displays and a HDTV, and realizing how extraordinary they are.
CRT displays have been burning my eyes out for a very long time and I'm thankful they are a thing of the past. Too bad I had to deal with that technology for so long.
Thankfully, after the last checkup I got less than a month ago, for the first time in my life my short-sightedness didnt increase -it has been 3 years since I bought my last glasses-. It felt amazing for me.
It always increased no matter what.
As for this technology, I'd rather prefer some more comfy and natural glasses, but other than that it might work. During the last checkup I got the ophthalmologist made me wear glasses with glass lenses exactly shaped like that and he began to perform tests while I was wearing them.
One of the tests involved looking in front of you and trying to discern 4 rectangle shaped lines, one at the top, another at the bottom, and then one by the right and left.
It was meant to measure my capacity to discern depth. I passed it and it was really cool to see and discern everything in 3D. So I think it might work well, but it should be less bulky to be practical, like wearing your everyday glasses.
