> > 2000 Falt panel displays start to challenge CRT's in price/performance
>
> Flat panel displays are advantageous for other eeasons - particularly in that
> they can be made big - very big. This opens up other applications like
> video walls, or home visual environment control. It seems likely that flat
Then fractal programs and scrsen savers enter the realm of video rental
chain stores. Viacom, of course, leeds the pack. The gain copyrights to
FracTint, start producing fractal "movies", (BLOCKBUSTER of course
sensoring the equations that produce ssxy undertones). People buy heavily
into this idea, Apple/Motorolla produces smaller wall hanging versions
for the mantle. They come in these colors faux oak, black and white.
Timex picks up on the idea and incorporates the fractal patterns to the
current time, (will also let you download images to your
DATALINKv2.0)............
> scrsen (ie non-cathode-ray) displays will first find uses where their
> technical advantages are important. In terms of VR this would suggest we
> could throw away goggles to some extent, and just use a whole room. Maybe.
> There are problems here with stereo viewing.
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