I see these wonders of mans' brillance.... wonders of home made things.... and i realize that i, poor little me, am bound forever to my puny little  17 inch LCD....



Anyone want to loan me a couple thousand bucks ?  

hahaha lol... if i had some patience i could make a whole batch of those things... pretty cool ill have to try that..... now for the hydraulic motion system hmmmmm...... i could get a few of my buds to lift my chair and tilt it around....

Ouch - I experimented with the Fresnel Lens 'solution' a while back: waste of money.

To get anything like a reasonable display you need a pretty big lens and although you can get them quite cheap (I think I paid about £30 for a framed 18"-ish one) it'll just give you distortion, degraded* screens and dissapointment. Plus the 3D effect is negligible unless you're real close. In my honest opinion you'll be better off just buying a bigger monitor, or getting a second one so you can split the instrumenet panels from the outside display which always adds to the realism.

In my experience if you go down the cheap route you'll always end up paying more coz you'll be unhappy and six months down the line you'll replace it with the option you should've saved up for in the first place.

* Fresnel lenses have loads of concentric circles moulded into them - it's how they compress a truly thick lense into a thin sheet. The problem is that you can see those cirlces just as if someone scribed them onto your monitor. You get what you pay for!

only reason i got the lcd was i ponyed up $50 when i bought my pc and got it instead of a 20 in regualar monitor