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Yes, the same thing with telephone calls over copper. No latency. You could both talk at the same time, more immersive. I also remember vector displays first-hand.. those were pretty awesome. You're never going to get a vector graphics experience ever on an LCD because LCDs are rasterized pixels not a drawn line. No one will ever make a limited run of CRTs or vector monitors ever again, but I wish they would. People…
Resolution is rapidly reaching the point where it won’t be the limiting factor in properly simulating a vector display, at least in a “good enough” fashion. Similar to how resolution and refresh rate improvements are making it feasible to simulate a raster CRT.
Conceptually, emulating a vector display is easy. They are unique but not thaaaat magical.
1. You have a certain amount of bloom
2. You have decay time function
3. You need, perhaps, a surprising amount of dynamic range? If you've seen something like an Asteroids cab in person, the bullets are super bright (with correspondingly larger decay times) relative to everything else
But, how people are interested in implementing that kind of thing and have access to a real vector display in order to study it? I suppose sufficiently good recordings of vector displays might suffice so maybe it's not that dire.