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2002 Issue- Profile Throwing Einstein for a Loop
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Nearly 20 years ago I had the dubious honor of viewing Jaws 3-D, one of the sequels to the infamous shark-attack movie. With my theater ticket I received a pair of cardboard 3-D glasses, with red cellophane in one lens and blue in the other. Feeling very stupid, I sat in the front row and donned the glasses only when the lights went down. I remember absolutely nothing about the movie's plot, but I recall with great clarity some of the 3-D effects. The opening sequence featured a severed fish head, which seemed to be floating gruesomely just inches from my face. I was still young enough at the time to think that this was pretty cool.
Fast-forward to 2002. I'm sitting in a darkened room at the Media Research Laboratory at New York University, staring at a device called an autostereoscopic display. The setup looks very odd: a computer monitor lies on its side, and a sheet of liquid crystal--
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