3DTV had a go at that a decade ago, but fell into the chicken-and-egg abyss of little content meaning slow adoption, meaning even less content, meaning … extinction. Far better to use something that looks like a screen – but with depth.
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Virtual- and augmented-reality systems use stereo pairs, projecting a slightly different image into each eye, but they're still too big and clumsy to be widely adopted, even for professional uses. Three-dimensional displays have been a bit of a holy grail of computing. There may be depth within those virtual worlds, but it's not presented that way to our eyes. Even the lively four-dimensional worlds of computer gaming still squash themselves against the screen. All of our screens live in Flatland – everything projected onto a surface of zero depth. But, as I noted in the closing paragraphs of that feature, capturing depth does not mean that you can display it. That's enormous progress – a real revolution in sensors that gives our devices the capacity to capture depth. Today, I can fire up an app on my whizzy new iPhone 13 Pro, point its onboard LiDAR sensor at a subject, and record – in four dimensions – and in real time. At the time, the tech required an array of tens to hundreds of cameras, all pointed inward at a subject, gathering reams of two-dimensional data immediately uploaded to the cloud for hours of post-processing, image recognition, feature extraction, and assembly into three- or four-dimensional media. I'm using the latest version of High Sierra if that makes a difference.īest Buy customer service at the Blossom Hill store gets 5 stars as they could not have been nicer and were very helpful with the exchange and return.Review Four years ago in a feature for The Register, I wrote about the latest technologies for three-dimensional photography and videography. 2 days was the longest it ever went without the error message so I returned it for a refund this morning. It worked just the same, the error message will pop up anywhere from within a couple of hours to a day or two. I returned the drive to Best Buy and exchanged it for another new identical drive. The error message came back up that evening. WD tech support advised me to erase the drive and format it for Mac, not sure why you would have to do that for a drive already formatted properly but whatever. The only way to get it to work again is either force eject the drive or turn the computer off and back on as eject and WD Utilities diagnostics do not work after the error message is received.
The next day though an error message popped up that said Time Machine couldn't complete the backup because an error occurred. I purchased my first My Passport for Mac 2TB a couple of weeks ago, it was a very easy plug and play installation and it backed up my computer in a matter of minutes.
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