apple patents 3d display (glasses free)

[iFish]

My lord, what is with all of the Apple hate here?

Every Nintendo fan has one enemy: Apple.

They bring our mushroom kindom in danger.

Ugh...No.

I'm a Nintendo fan. But I also love Apple....

I don't see Apple as a competition to Nintendo.

 

[mameks]

My bad...
Although...I don't understand the last point

Current technologies for holographic images require powerful CPUs and GPUs to work. This technology has some kind of a workaround for that.
Maybe aggressive hardware optimizations, like dedicated hardware for some of the heaviest functions.

Ah, get it now.

 

[Tanas]

I don't get why people love Apple. They're a company who overcharges waaaaayyy too much for the product.

Too true; unfortunately Earth is full of sheep.

Humans, who'd have them?

 

[ThePowerOutage]

If apple actually used all their patents then, well...
Seriously though, they seem to be patenting everything these days.

 

[Ace Gunman]

I don't have any particular interest Apple beyond a possible next-gen iPad purchase in the future, I don't think I've ever actually owned an Apple product. I must say though that I don't really understand the overcharging comments. Their devices are expensive, generally, sure, but usually only on first run devices. If you buy an iCar on day one, yes, you are going to pay more, early adopters always do. But from what I understand they've made it a fairly regular practice of dropping the price with every iteration of their product.

Buying an iPhone 4 now with significantly more features than the iPhone 1 will cost you less than buying the iPhone 1 would have when it was first released. I tend to view that as a bargain, if you are willing to wait. First run iPhones, would realistically, tax included and with the rules of supply and demand, cost you in the range of $600? $700? Keeping in mind that was a greatly inferior product to the current iteration. Nowadays you can get the newest model for as low as $200 (plus tax).

The moral of the story to me is don't be an early adopter. Thank goodness for the technophiles that do, they can't help themselves and buy it day one, because its their purchase that enables the company and retailers to lower the price later on. Yet they routinely get screwed. This is a fact of technology, a fact of life. If you buy early you get less features, more bugs, and fewer software/etc options

That applies to anything and everything from video game consoles, to phones, to services like Netflix. Look at Netflix now in comparison to when it first launched. You had a handful of titles (in comparison) and could only be manually shipped your movies. Now if you have a subscription you can view your content on a Wii, 360, PS3, PC, and so on all with that one subscription. All the while still being able to take advantage of the original mail service.

If you are an early adopter, you will get the raw end of the deal, but otherwise the prices seem fair to me provided you are willing to wait. With my recent semi-interest in the iPad I've found that the device is actually cheaper than most retail laptops in Canada. Its similarly priced to the lower tier netbooks and whatnot. In a lot of cases you can end up paying anywhere from $700 - $1200 for a pretty OK laptop, yet I can get an iPad 32 gig for $599.

Now on-topic for a moment: Hopefully they get this to work. The more glasses-less 3D, the better. I have said it before, and I will say it again, I will not purchase a 3D HDTV until they can get it to work without the spectacles. Whether that takes 10 years or 20, I don't particularly care, but I will not be purchasing one until that is available and the kinks have been worked out.

 

[twiztidsinz]

I don't get why people love Apple. They're a company who overcharges waaaaayyy too much for the product.
Because Microsoft is evil.
Not Apple who engages in the same practices only to jack up the price, unlike Microsoft who under cuts everyone.


QUOTE(Ace Gunman @ Dec 8 2010, 02:20 PM) That applies to anything and everything from video game consoles, to phones, to services like Netflix. Look at Netflix now in comparison to when it first launched. You had a handful of titles (in comparison) and could only be manually shipped your movies. Now if you have a subscription you can view your content on a Wii, 360, PS3, PC, and so on all with that one subscription. All the while still being able to take advantage of the original mail service.

but early NetFlix adopters will pay the same price (less if they could lock in a lower price if one existed) and still get all the new features.
Apple has a track record for locking features to the new iterations, essentially screwing early adopters.

 

[nando]

microsoft is evil because when you play a windows dvd backwards... well nothing happens, but play it forwards and it installs windows, and that's plain evil.

 

[Ace Gunman]

Apple has a track record for locking features to the new iterations, essentially screwing early adopters.

If they limit it on the software level for no apparent reason then I agree that that is unjust. However on the hardware level, such as with things like that face time feature I keep seeing advertised, there is really nothing to be done about that.

I waited for several years purposely for Microsoft to work out many of the kinks on the 360. Reduce the rate of red-ring failures, cool down and speed up the system ever so slightly internally, expand the HDD size, dropping the price, etc. They did all of that. Once my checklist of new features and fixes was complete I finally purchased the system, but I had to wait longingly for that day to come. It was mid - late 2008 I believe.

I imagine the early adopters were pretty steamed that they couldn't reap the benefits of a larger HDD, cooler system and so on without buying a new console (or in the case of the hard drive, a replacement). And I paid less than they did too. Now I am in a similar position with the new 360 Slim. Smaller, sleeker, faster, cooler, virtually no red ring failures because of a completely redesigned motherboard, built-in wifi and a huge 250GB HDD. All of this for the same or less than I paid originally, and significantly less than the early adopters paid.

I have just always accepted that the earlier the buy, the more you will have to suffer because of it. Again, gotta' love those who do, they suffer and we later buyers reap the benefits, which couldn't be done with out them. That is just how it is, though. I mean nothing sinister when I say this, but should technology be limited just because one group dislikes that the second group gets a processor enhancement that enables them to play more games the original couldn't locking them from those games? If that were the case tech would never move forward.

Keep in mind that I say that knowing full well some day I will be in group A, then group B again, then group A once more. When I got my PC it could do many things, now it cannot because software development leans towards newer systems which cuts me out of pretty much everything.

 

[twiztidsinz]

Apple has a track record for locking features to the new iterations, essentially screwing early adopters.
If they limit it on the software level for no apparent reason then I agree that that is unjust. However on the hardware level, such as with things like that face time feature I keep seeing advertised, there is really nothing to be done about that.I avoid Apple products like the plague so I'm not too familiar with the iPod/Pad/Phone series, but an ex of mine switched to Macs and ended up running into some problems, the solution of which was to upgrade to the newest iteration of OSX. Unfortunately she wasn't able to because the version of OSX dropped support for her model, which as far as I could tell wasn't due to system specs but simply because it was an older model that they weren't selling anymore.


QUOTE(nando @ Dec 8 2010, 02:35 PM)

microsoft is evil because when you play a windows dvd backwards... well nothing happens, but play it forwards and it installs windows, and that's plain evil.

Har har.

I've never really had problems with the Windows OS itself.
There have been problems with 3rd party drivers, but you really can't blame that on Microsoft.
In fact, I've run into far more issues getting Linux to support what I consider basic functionality (music/video playback, rudimentary support for a mouse, network hardware detection, uniform font/size on windows, etc) all of which Windows can use the basic functions of without extra drivers.

 

[_Chaz_]

It just had to be Apple, didn't it?

I can't wait to see people pay 5x what another company would have charged for a technology that won't be used to its fullest potential.
It's almost as if the presence of the word "Apple" increases a product's worth immensely.


Honestly, I think Apple adopt a new slogan.

Spoiler

Apple

The most expensive word on the planet.

 

[The Catboy]

Oh no! Now the next iPod is going to cost more than my damn house!

Apple fan-boyism has to be the most expensive fan-boyism out there
EDIT: But come on Apple, did you have to jump on the 3D bandwagon?

 

[bmg1001]

Its like Microsoft and IE9 they said IE9 isnt for XP due to HTML5 , but FF 4.0 Beta,Opera,Safari, and Chrome support it on XP. And to upgrade to 7 , Vista , you need new Graphic Card...

 

[iFish]

It seems anything with the name Apple with get flames.
You guys say it's all overpriced, the Apple TV isn't overpriced at all.

And you say Apple stop supporting their computers fast. Ugh, big fat no. My dad has a 3 - 4 year old Mac at his work and Apple still supports it. I think they still support all their computer with intel CPUs.

 

[ThePowerOutage]

Peoples complaining at the price:
Can you yell me where to buy a phone with one of the highest resolutions for it's size, a 1GHz processor, access to 250,000+ apps, solid build, active Homebrew scene, 3 yr firmware update, free find phone service if you own a newer model and have access to Unreal Engine 3 for under £590.
Just in case you didn't know, that is the going rate for a top end smartphone.
/rantover
Apple aren't expensive for what you get.

 

[The Catboy]

Peoples complaining at the price:
Can you yell me where to buy a phone with one of the highest resolutions for it's size, a 1GHz processor, access to 250,000+ apps, solid build, active Homebrew scene, 3 yr firmware update, free find phone service if you own a newer model and have access to Unreal Engine 3 for under £590.
Just in case you didn't know, that is the going rate for a top end smartphone.
/rantover
Apple aren't expensive for what you get.

An iPod shouldn't still cost close to 300$.
Apple products are over-priced and it is an uphill battle to try and even defend the prices to their products

 

[_Chaz_]

It seems anything with the name Apple with get flames.
You guys say it's all overpriced, the Apple TV isn't overpriced at all.

And you say Apple stop supporting their computers fast. Ugh, big fat no. My dad has a 3 - 4 year old Mac at his work and Apple still supports it. I think they still support all their computer with intel CPUs.

I bet your 4 year old Mac cost more than my PC and all peripherals added together.

 

[iFish]

Peoples complaining at the price:
Can you yell me where to buy a phone with one of the highest resolutions for it's size, a 1GHz processor, access to 250,000+ apps, solid build, active Homebrew scene, 3 yr firmware update, free find phone service if you own a newer model and have access to Unreal Engine 3 for under £590.
Just in case you didn't know, that is the going rate for a top end smartphone.
/rantover
Apple aren't expensive for what you get.

An iPod shouldn't still cost close to 300$.
Apple products are over-priced and it is an uphill battle to try and even defend the prices to their products

You can get any good iPod for under $300 (this being the smaller amount of memory)
iPod touch 4 8GB = $250 (CAD)
iPod nano whateverthenewestnodekgenerationitis 8GB = $150 (CAD)

So, it is only over $300 if you want more memory.

Are you saying Windows isn't over-priced? Windows is over $250 (I think) and it has Anti-Pirwcy features. Youcan get Mac OS X for under $50. And has no anti-piracy (just anti-hackintosh) so, I can buy one copy of OS X and share it without the need if a crack.

So?

 

[The Catboy]

Peoples complaining at the price:
Can you yell me where to buy a phone with one of the highest resolutions for it's size, a 1GHz processor, access to 250,000+ apps, solid build, active Homebrew scene, 3 yr firmware update, free find phone service if you own a newer model and have access to Unreal Engine 3 for under £590.
Just in case you didn't know, that is the going rate for a top end smartphone.
/rantover
Apple aren't expensive for what you get.

An iPod shouldn't still cost close to 300$.
Apple products are over-priced and it is an uphill battle to try and even defend the prices to their products

You can get any good iPod for under $300 (this being the smaller amount of memory)
iPod touch 4 8GB = $250 (CAD)
iPod nano whateverthenewestnodekgenerationitis 8GB = $150 (CAD)

So, it is only over $300 if you want more memory.

Are you saying Windows isn't over-priced? Windows is over $250 (I think) and it has Anti-Pirwcy features. Youcan get Mac OS X for under $50. And has no anti-piracy (just anti-hackintosh) so, I can buy one copy of OS X and share it without the need if a crack.

So?

The 80gig generation 6 ipod from a few years ago is still over 270$
It should be cheaper since it's out of date
And personally I say both Windows and Mac sucks, just Mac is way too full of itself

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Peoples complaining at the price:
Can you yell me where to buy a phone with one of the highest resolutions for it's size, a 1GHz processor, access to 250,000+ apps, solid build, active Homebrew scene, 3 yr firmware update, free find phone service if you own a newer model and have access to Unreal Engine 3 for under £590.
Just in case you didn't know, that is the going rate for a top end smartphone.
/rantover
Apple aren't expensive for what you get.

An iPod shouldn't still cost close to 300$.
Apple products are over-priced and it is an uphill battle to try and even defend the prices to their products

You can get any good iPod for under $300 (this being the smaller amount of memory)
iPod touch 4 8GB = $250 (CAD)
iPod nano whateverthenewestnodekgenerationitis 8GB = $150 (CAD)

So, it is only over $300 if you want more memory.

Are you saying Windows isn't over-priced? Windows is over $250 (I think) and it has Anti-Pirwcy features. Youcan get Mac OS X for under $50. And has no anti-piracy (just anti-hackintosh) so, I can buy one copy of OS X and share it without the need if a crack.

So?

8GB is hardly enough for anybody with half a taste in music. My entire music library on my computer is roughly 27GB, and I don't download tons of stuff. Given 10 years it could easily swell to 100GB. That's not counting other Apps and things on your iPod. Even fucking Zunes are significantly cheaper. Basically it's over $300 if you want something reasonable.

I'd gladly pay the extra $200 for a OS that doesn't suck. And how dare Windows have anti-piracy features! I mean it's not like companies actually attempt to protect their products from being illegally obtained! And pirating Windows 7 isn't hard, if you can't do it then you're just shitty.

And any Linux OS is still cheaper than Mac OSX. $0 baby!

 

[Warrior522]

And personally I say both Windows and Mac sucks, just Mac is way too full of itself

Amen.