I haven’t figured this one yet, so don’t count on me to give you explanation. Girl in a picture holds a real mirror, and the picture wasn’t edited in photoshop – that’s the only thing I’m certain. So how can we see different picture of the PC in the mirror then? Comment here, and please explain if you know the solution – [via].
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Manasonic has a new TV out that has a dual view angled LCD. If you view it from one angle,it’s one thing and from another it’s another thing…it’s made so mom and dad can watch different shows at the same time on the same tv.
John’s right – It’s not an illusion. That’s a Sharp LCD display. Here’s the link from their announcement last July: http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/050714_2.html
It is indeed a Sharp LCD display, it’s a type of hologram. I think its just positvely incredible. Don’t you rather love technology today?
I think maybe it is just a picture, because you can se the same stuff in the “mirror” as you can see behind the girl. If it was a mirror you would see the opposite side of the room. Or the room is symetric.
@Cortez – not a hologram – those use interference patterns, and are typically created by lasers on a reflective surface.
What the Sharp article mentioned above calls a “parallax barrier” is, I believe, nothing more than a well-aligned lenticular screen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular
The same lenticular overlays are being employed with more than 2 angles (10 or more) to create 3D screens. Sharp has some of these as well, some already available:
http://www.sharpsystems.com/products/lcd_monitors/15-17_inch/ll-151-3d/
I think the claim of “no loss in image quality” is one of those things that skirts the legal boundaries of marketing. Yes, the overall LCD image is still the same quality, but as that overall image is made of 2 images put together in slices now, each image being sent left and right is of half-quality, made of only half the pixels of the screen.
There are also kits available to turn a regular TFT screen into a 3D display, via some video software that adapts the screen output to show 2 images merged into vertical slices, but they have some tight specifics, like requiring that your monitor be of a particular dot pitch (number of actual physical pixels per inch).
example:
http://www.3dz.co.uk/3d_lcd_monitor.html
Parallax barrier autostereoscopy is my area of research. It’s closely related to, but distinct from lenticular display. UI Chicago’s Electronic Visualization Lab has been building autostereoscopic displays for a few years now under the name Varrier. We use image-based face tracking to locate the user and adapt the image interleaving in real time to ensure that the two images hit your two eyes and you always preceive correct 3D as you move around. We’ve got the little Varrier:
http://www.evl.uic.edu/core.php?mod=4&type=1&indi=290
And the big Varrier:
http://www.evl.uic.edu/core.php?mod=4&type=1&indi=275
Yes, the claim of “no loss in image quality” is false. A 50% loss in horizontal resolution follows from the fact that you’re interleaving two images horizontally.
The specifics are much less tight than you might think. The line screen need not be registered precisely with the LCD display, as any mismatch in shift or pitch can be corrected in software. In general, the line screen pitch needs to be about a fourth of the resolution of the display. We just take a display and slap a piece of glass with a photoprinted line screen to the front. From there it’s all software.
Now then, although it might just be some kind of special monitor that displays two pictures at once it would be possible to do this with a trick mirror and a lot of time on your hands. Two identical monitors could have been set-up on paralell countertops. The mirror would have to be a trick mirror, meaning that the reflective surface itself is held at a different angle from the frame, but in just such a way that it looks as though it is attached to the mirror. The other monitor is set facing the mirror, and someone off-screen would hold the right side (their right) of the mirror to make it look like the girl is the only person holding the mirror up.
So either the picture was taken by some rich jerks who wanted to show off their super-expensive monitor, or they just wanted to make you think that was the case.
Im just a a magician not a optical illusion guy but it looked to me that the mirror is not a mirror just wood frame around a hole in a mirror wall the girl COULD actually be standing in FRONT of the mirror wall with fake fingers hanging on the frame around the hole. 2 TVs would also need to be used.
Im not up to date on all the cool tech stuff that is out there or even the standard optical illusion stuff. But that is my guess.
The frame has no mirror in it and a second computer is set by the other.
I don’t know if I get to chime in twice But it looks like the frame is NOT square more like a trapazoid. to create an artificial vanishing point so the girl may not be standing at a 90 degree angl from the table as she appears… So my best guess is that my first guess was wrong… It would work but I don’t think that it is correct.
its the new two view tv, u can watch two different programmes from different angles of the room
Probably the special Sharp monitor, but it could be just a trick picture? Two frames taken a few seconds apart, and composited down the middle where the monitors join. Used to be a lot harder before digital, but as long as you don’t have to double-expose anything that moves (i.e. the girl), it’s doable with film, too.
This is new tech that has been introduced month ago which one person can see one thing and other person see other. They are thinking about putting it at the car where driver sees map and passenger sees movie..
http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-5790363-1.html for better pic for understanding..
Okay, I just tested it with a small mirror and my monitor. It only needs a very small deviation from the 90 degree angle towards the girl to make the monitor vanish from the mirror. Then it’s possible to set up another montor with the second picture such that the mirror captures that image. You may also take a closer look at the frame of the monitor on the right which shows some blurred reflections which aren’t visible on the left side. I’m not sure if the mirror is actually trapezoidal or rectangular as I’m not sure if the non-90 degree angle would be visible in a photo.
There are 2 screens. The girl is holding the mirror in an angle where the 2nd screen (which is right next to the one only shown) is showing. If that makes sence. If not u can write to me at mikki_mtz@msn.com so i can explain more clearly…
i dont get it
that tv is so freakin kool man…….
You are all odd ! The “Mirror” is not a mirror it is simply a picture of the same monitor on the table with a different programme on the screen. She then just holds it to the left of the original screen. Move the right picture directly right the two TV’s overlap. So does the Cupboard ! HELLO ! ANYBODY HOME ! Dual LCD TV ? Too much LSD more like !
I can’t believe there is still discussion about this. It is the Sharp LCD screen and probably a publicity shot they did themselves. The mirror is the same mirror as on Sharp’s website: http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/050714_2.html
And to Michael who said “The frame has no mirror in it and a second computer is set by the other.” She had better see a doctor then, because she is missing her torso.
i no………….never mind
now thats cool! wow real magic…..what ever. :p i thought it is lame.
MAYBE….it’s cos the mirror has a hole cut in it so that there’s another copmputer next to it but the rest of the room is reflected?
So if we didn’t have special dual view LCD thingies, it could be done the way Jason and Ola suggested. The background in the “mirror” (let’s assume it’s a photo) is the same as the background behind the “real” monitor, just shifted left like 5 feet. The photo is actually a little smaller than life-size, to make it appear as if it’s two monitors side-by-side. I think it could be done both ways.
oh so its…wait…the lady….uhh….computer screen is…ummm…..oh i got it!wait no…..
a note to Cortez: duz ur first name happen to be DJ? just wondering
this monitor can also be used for rear-view mirrors in cars. the driver gets the rear vision camera and the front passenger gets DVD movie or other video source
It’s nothing but a phoney!!!! A big phoney!!!! Curse them!!!!
i hate to burst you all’s bubble but if you look really close you will see that the lighting is different in the display in the mirror one way that you can do this trick is by using a mirror to see a mirror. your seeing a monitor in a mirror that is pointed at another mirror that’s pointed at the monitor
dont be stubborn folks. read rich’s comment up above and click on his link. you will see the same exact tv and the exact mirror used in a sharp advertisement
Theres A TV Beside The PC.
I don’t care (hey, i am 8 years old!)
Alright, i think i got it, there is a mirror frame. The right side of the actuall mirror is being pushed back 45 degrees. If you notice the background in the mirror’s view, if not that, then it really is a reflection and theirs a computer to our right of the normal one, or, there are just way too many possibillities! But this one is mind boggling!
I think that someone took a photo of the computer when it had a different screen and stck the photo on the mirror.
Am I the only aware that on the right it’s a computer and on the left it’s a TV?
i think theres just two TV’s & the lady is holding a wooden frame to an angle so it looks like a mirror but youre really seeing the other TV.
it’s a picture
Think that was mind-bending, check this optical illusion – a magic mirror! How’s it done?
http://www.guzer.com/videos/magic_mirror.php
i think it may have something to do with the angle, i dont know how!
she just glued a picture to the mirror at the right angle with the right lighting
notice how in the mirror of the screen it is 2 men in a plane? well if you look at this link that JOHn posted it is almost the same picture just fliped
http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-5790363-1.html
you notice the picture in the link has the same picture of the men in the plane as this “illusion”. this picture must have been used a an advertisement or something like that.
It’s the new Sharp LCD display that shows two different pictures that are seen only by having a different angle to the screen ~ See Sharp Advertising Photo here:
http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-5790363-1.html
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it’s like a badge where it change cuz the screen is like a plasma so it can show to things at once
it’s like a badge where it change cuz the screen is like a plasma so it can show 2 things at once