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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. Hang on a minute... by Maiko · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Didn't we see something extremely similar to that fog-based hologram projector thingy (Technical Name completely lost to me) in Seaquest DSV?

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  2. Wasn't this on... by Shade,+The · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Seaquest DSV? I seem to remember the captain had a holographic AI projected onto a fog screen in his office. And that series was quite a few years ago now... I wonder if we'll be seeing a /. stroy on a "dolphin translator" next :)

  3. Games with real bullets by goombah99 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now we can play first person shooters using real bullets, real head butts and punches.

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