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3D "Crystal Ball" Monitors
glesga_kiss writes "Actuality Systems have issued a press release announcing sales of their 3D display technology, as reported by Yahoo Finance. The system works similar to an old spining disk optical illusion, except that the 21st century version produces an image that can change through the use of digital projection. In this case the screen is a rotating disk that is capable of producing light at any point that it passes through. The upshot is that you get a real 3D representation of your object, that can be viewed from 360 degrees around the display, without the need for any special goggles. Not quite ready for Hollywood, but the scientific and engineering communities have some obvious uses for it already..."
Dont forget the porn guys.
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So...now they can watch their server crash in three dimensions.
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Speaking of 3-D display technologies, at my last job at SEGA, my lab was in charge of coming up with many different and pioneering ideas for new ways to play video games, many of which, for one reason or another, never made it to market.
One of those was HOLO-GENESIS. It was a 3-D laser
holographic projection device for the MegaDrive/geneis. It could have displayed 3-D rendered images, in full-color, in real-time, using a system of 3 red/green/blue lasers, and a finely-meshed micro-faceted surface which gave a pseudo 3-D effect based on carefully utilized light diffraction effects, a la printed holograms.
It was slated to come out in mid-1995, but at the time, we couldn't get a acceptable frame rate (3-D graphics accelerator hardware was still very primitive and expensive, the province of SGI workstations and arcade machines), so we decided to not commercialize it at the time.
-- Samir Gupta, Ph. D. Head, New Technology Research Group, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Kyoto, Japan.
Star Wars, art?
You're in for a surprise.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
you know, i would be interested in the demography of /.ers. Because i see all those trolling prepubecent boys, and then i see the wise and knowledgable members, posting stories of yesteryear
YOU SUCK BALLS!
I remember reading somthing on /. about OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes) and how sony or sharp or sombody is developing them. You could make this a lot smaller, put a lot of OLEDs on a clear surface, have it spin around a lot, and sell it for a lot cheaper.
Unfortunatly it seems they have a patent. Another good technoligy prevented from being further developed.... sigh.