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Monday May 14 7:27 AM ET
Computer Users May Soon Get 3-D Screens

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Computer users may soon be able to work on screens
with displays that give the appearance of being three dimensional.

The DVI actualdepth monitors, developed by a private New Zealand-based
research company Deep Video Imaging, displays images on two physical planes
to create a depth of field.

``People have tried like crazy to get the illusion of depth and the closest
you can have is wearing (3-D) goggles and standing at a particular
position,'' DVI director Lim Soon Hock said on the sidelines of a news
conference to launch the product.

The monitor, which uses multiple layers of liquid crystal display (LCD)
screens to create depth, allows users to work across what appears to be a
foreground and background seamlessly, without the need for 3-D glasses or
specialized software.

``We have not come across anything which comes close to a DVI monitor,''
Fong Yew Chan, an engineer and business development director for the
Singapore government-funded Institute of High Performance Computing told
Reuters.

The institute, focused on high-end simulation research, is collaborating
with DVI on applications for the monitor.

``There are technological challenges to be overcome before you can have this
kind of display (which) not even the LCD manufacturers could overcome so
easily,'' Fong said.

A rainbow effect called moire interference, which occurs when two LCD
screens are placed one behind the other, was one problem.

The ``window box'' effect where the side portion between the two planes can
been seen had to be eliminated, along with the reflection of the screens off
each other, DVI executive chairman David Hancock said.

The monitors, which are thinner than conventional cathode ray tube displays,
are compatible with all operating systems.

DVI has filed for several worldwide patents and spent about US$3.5 million
in research and development.

The company, funded by New Zealand and Singapore capital, will not
manufacture the monitors itself, but hopes to license the technology to
others.

The company plans to make prototypes for desktop computers by next year. The
monitors are currently available as manufacturing modules in different
screen sizes.


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