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Walk-Thru Virtual Environment

Posted by timothy on from the foggy-mcbottom dept.

diso writes "Walking through a wall is now really possible. WAVE, a Walk-thru Virtual Environment is a novel, low-cost, and simple method for forming a superior quality physically penetrable fog display. It is a break-through technology, literally! This work has international patents pending. An early prototype was constructed with honeycomb paper as a low-cost laminar airflow generator. When the screen is formed, images can be either rear- or front-projected onto it. Despite of being a very early prototype, the experimental fog screen already proves the operating principle with excellent results."

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  1. Honest question by Therlin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is this different from the water screens that you see at the theme parks such as Disneyworld? (other than the fact that you do not need a lake)

  2. OT: Cut and pasting the destination site. by Christopher+Thomas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok, I've reached my plagarism threshold.

    Yes, this is a very nifty toy. Yes, it deserves to be posted to slashdot.

    But can you, the submitter, not scrape together the two brain cells required to post a summary in your own words? Or space the two seconds to type, "From the site:" and put quotes around your text?

    It's getting to the point where two thirds of the articles posted have summary text directly copied from the site being linked to. This went from "minor irritant" to "annoyance" a while back.

  3. Re:Ok, this is really really cool looking by mmacdona86 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, this has nothing to do with 3d. The only innovation here is that it is a penetrable 2d display.