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Next Generation of Holographic Images

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the think-of-the-porntential dept.

suman28 writes "Imagine being able to view an image from all sides and have it interact with you. Scenes or images pop-out at you and change on the fly and are viewable in full color. Best of all, you don't need head-gear or any wearable device to make this possible. They are generated by a computer with two cameras that track your eye movement and there is a transparent LCD screen between you and the display that makes the pictures come alive. Though it may be a while before this becomes part of our daily lives, it is interesting to see what the kind of research being done on this. "

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  1. The problem with 3D by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    more often than not 3D is distracting rather than engaging. the best way to make use of 3D is in applications where we EXPECT a 3D image.

    when we drive down the street, since everything is behind glass anyway, it sort of reduces the 3d-ness, doesn't it?

  2. Buck Rodgers by Syncdata · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It may not be the flying car, but I'm amazed by the technologies that I was convinced not long ago, were decades out on the horizon. Holograms, Cybernetic prosthesis, cheap lasers, and common genetic alteration. Good times. Seriously though, here's to hoping the flying car is next.

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  3. The NYU System and multiple users by Hayzeus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wonder how the NYU system would manage with multiple users? Can the "alternating bars" system be adjusted for more than a single user at a time?

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    1. Re:The NYU System and multiple users by ngoy · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I was tihnking the same thing but for regular monitors. They already sell those fruity 3D lcd shutter glasses anyways. So if a monitor refreshes at 85 to 120 Hz, you could theoretically show 2 people different screens at 42.5 to 60 Hz by showing each an interleaved screen that was synced to their glasses. So if you could get Quake, UT, etc... to work with a simpler control device, you could have two or more people play with the same system.

      I don't think the computing power is there though to accomadate running the same program twice on the same computer, although really you are just performing the tasks that the programmed AI would do for a character in the game, so maybe giving more manual control isn't a big deal.

      ngoy

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  4. Stick this technology by Bobtree · · Score: 5, Interesting

    in the arcades where it belongs!

    Since home game systems have caught up with arcade hardware at low cost, there isn't a sufficient technology advantage to keep arcade gaming advantageous and afloat.

    Serious holographic displays on arcade machines would be fantastic, and home consoles wouldn't be able to touch it for many years since TV/monitor standards are so slow and entrenched.

    Note: please allow 3+ years for development and adoption, and keep your fingers crossed that arcades still exist then.

  5. I don't like having my eye movement tricked. by handybundler · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So do they think that people with 20/20 vision can actually view this for any length of time without casuing major eye strain, vertigous reaction, and any other focusing issue?

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  6. Virtual Boy Reference by Q3vi1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if it'll give me the same headaches? I mean, after all that 3D pr0n, I'd already expect a headache, but what about when I'm just doing research? *sig*

  7. Re:here we go... by noshellswill · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Saw it already gents - 1978 at the Franklin Institute in Phila. ... As I remember it was a gal (+ bathing suit) tumbling in the surf ...

  8. Re:I've already figured out how to use it in games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yeah it makes sense and it's a cool ass idea. My friend is trying to figure out some cool way to make maps like this, where the center is photo-realistic from say terraserver, and then it goes to topo where the rez decreases at the edge or something. Anyhow so it looks cool but employs the effect you are talking about- projected to 2d for cool posters that say, "X place - the center of the world.", sell them to vacationers, bigger fad than those euro-letter stickers on the car.

  9. Holography stereoscopic 3D by rufusdufus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Holograms do more than simply stereoscopic 3D. A hologram encodes the entire wavefront of the image, not just two positions like 3d goggles or other cheesy steroscopic devices.

    This differences is substantial: the amount of information presented to the eye is vastly larger than simple stereoscopic methods. In a simple stereoscopic image, all objects and surfaces appear to be in the same focus plane. Holographic images essentially gain a 3rd axis of resolution by adding a very large number of focus points in 3 space.

    This also allows for true perspective wherein different viewpoints provide different information. You can 'look behind' objects in a hologram, which you cannot do with steroscopic tricks.

    Thus, true holograms provide a qualitativly better experience over existing 3d methods.