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Poor Man's Stereoscopic Projection

Jed Link writes: "This summer I helped built a Geowall stereoscopic projection (3D) system for the Southern California Earthquake Center. Although there are no new concepts involved with this system, what is new is that the system cost a little over $10K and is comprised of materials that you can buy at any computer-hardware store. A complete description of the system, as well as a diary of its assembly is available here. Traditional stereoscopic projection systems like The Cave which is used primarily for new product modeling and on a few university campuses cost anywhere from $150K to $1.5M. They are built into a fixed location, often requiring significant architectural modifications, so transportability isn't even an option. The Geowall, on the other hand, can be fixed to a cart (like we've done) and rolled from room to room. The price-tag makes the system feasible for undergraduate post-secondary education classrooms and even high schools. The system is based on a very simple concept, and while its use is currently primarily educational, I think it's only a matter of time before we see something like this in the gaming or entertainment industries."

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  1. first post. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Re:Frost the Snow Piss! by Spaaaaaam · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:Frost the Snow Piss! NOT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. are you a darkie? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. Slashdot really does suck. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:Slashdot really does suck. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  8. Re:So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damnit.

  9. Re:thank god - Moderators - please mod this down by volts · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Troll doesn't quite express it.

  10. Re:Frost the Snow Piss! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  11. Re:Frost the Snow Piss! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  12. What holiday? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What holiday?

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    You're probably from Europe or something. I heard you have like four weeks of vacation time every year. No wonder your economy is in shambles...

    1. Re:What holiday? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No wonder your economy is in shambles...

      If the Euro is ~1:1 with the Dollar, does this mean that you also believe that the US economy is in just as big a shambles? Or (More likely), that the US economy is actually in a shambles (Recesion again is it? Whats that, two, three years since the last one?) and the EU economy is actually doing fine.

      I won't even go into the UK economy, which is doing better than either the US and EU economies, has a lower unemployment, lower deficite, and better interest and inflation.

      Oh, and we still get our four weeks of "vacation"! Which would seem to indicate that the Yanks cant get it right even when they're busting their asses. Sounds to me like you're a bunch of jealous incompetents...

  13. Re:Frost the Snow Piss! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whaasup, fag boy? cat got your tongue? no, sorry, the dog got your tongue....

  14. Re:So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, but I will say that you're a fucking moron. Is that close?

  15. Re:Frost the Snow Piss! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Calm down, you dog's pizzle.

    I've been thinking about starting a club for men and women with incest-fantasies. You know, brother and sister, father and teen-daughter and so on.

  16. Bad webmaster! No bone! by mithras+the+prophet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  17. Re:Frost the Snow Piss! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck you shithead. I am going molest your hamster, as soon as I fish it out of your mom's cheese covered twat.

    FOAD, asswipe.

  18. Re:3D porn by OrangeSpyderMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You may not be aware of this, but there have been 3D porn movies for some time.

    Anyone know if any (many?) of the major computer video formats (AVI, QuickTime, MPG, etc.) have specific support for 3-D?

    You horny little devil :-D

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  19. Re:Holy Bingo La La by OrangeSpyderMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    doghty at school used to tell us his dad had a 2 wheel drive motorbike. Your not doghty are you???

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