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Geek Culture / 3d monitors getting closer

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indi
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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 10:38
http://www.io2technology.com/

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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 10:57
I love it.


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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 10:58
If they cost $300 or less at release I'll consider buying it.
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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 11:21
I bet they would be expensive...

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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 12:58
impractically expnshive

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Maybe, or perhaps practically expensive...

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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 13:41 Edited at: 25th Aug 2005 13:41
or perhaps practically impractically expensive...

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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 13:54
Probably slighly more expensive than a regular projector (most of them start at around £350.. you could easily double that for this being new technology)

Personally while it does look good, I think the Panasonic and Sharp 3D LCD Monitors are more practical (and within more peoples price range). I'm pretty sure I've seen this techonology being explained before, perhaps it was on Ken Perlin's page or something.

It's something not that complex (or difficult) to do for yourself. Because I just remember the Teddy Bear experiment where they made a form of Laser that scaned the area above where it was going to project the 3D version of the OpenGL object; then it would bounce light off of dust particles to create the image.

More Dust = Better Resolution. Was quite impressive for something made in someones spare time.. iirc the guy also made a 3D Scanner, and a 3D Printer (prints objects to Wax or something like that)

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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 14:02
I wouldn't buy one until they've found a way to keep the image still around the edges (watch video)_

But how the hell are they projecting an image onto nothing but air!?

im just a simple peasant...
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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 17:50
You can already get 3D tellies that you don't need to wear glasses for. I saw one in a supermarket in France a couple of years ago.

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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 18:25 Edited at: 25th Aug 2005 18:31
Thats not 3D. Thats just an image presented in the air.

The way it works is this:



sorry for the crap drawing.. But technicaly the way that is made, the picture has to be 3D before it is displayed in the air.


You can actualy buy something like that.. you put a penny or something in it. and it produces a 3D hologram.


http://www.3dimagery.com/overview.html

Holograms have already been made and are being used in the medical industry



sorry for the crappy drawing.
it uses a glass sphere and a projecor that rotates around inside at something like 7200 RPM it was in the Focus ages ago. I'll have to find it. But that monitor is still pretty cool. Reminds me of Minority Report.


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Posted: 26th Aug 2005 13:25 Edited at: 26th Aug 2005 13:27
Quote: "It's something not that complex (or difficult) to do for yourself"




I challenge you to knock one up then and give us a demo.

Edit: Having looked at the vids it actually looks really really crap. Fair play for developing the technology, but there's definitely no use for that in the home - only advertising. It needs a lot more development so the images look half decent.

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Posted: 26th Aug 2005 14:58
Quote: "I challenge you to knock one up then and give us a demo."


Not my area of expertise. I could explain how a laser works and the mathematics behind it; but getting the practical side of things going isn't what I know. Requires extensive knowlage of electronics and such, something I never bothered to learn.

To put it in a language you might understand better, you no doubt understand how you use a Synth right.. iirc the Roland 808 is a popular well known one used by the Prodigy. Well you probably understand how to use it in order to get the sounds you want, you might also understand how it works in programming terms as well (in-fact there is a Code version of on in the Code Snippets or 20-Liner Section of this Forum); however would you be able to build one?

It's the same deal, my area of expertise is theoretics. So to me it is simple to understand how it works (how the guy made the teddy bear one atleast) from his whitepaper. Though given I have almost no knowledge of how the electronics side of things would work I can move any theoretical work I could come up with, without someone who did understand the electronics side. Or at the very least it would take me quite substancial amount of time to figure out part-by-part.

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Posted: 26th Aug 2005 19:23
anyone know how to build a cutting laser, just curious?

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Posted: 26th Aug 2005 19:56
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