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3D Display, No Glasses Required
Shibatch writes "Hitachi, Ltd has developed a 3D display called Transpost which can be viewed from
any direction without wearing special glasses. 3D movies can be seen as floating in
the display. Also, 3D movies captured at other places can be shown on the display
in realtime. The principle of the device is that 2D images of an object taken from
24 different directions are projected to a special rotating screen. They also
developed a camera which can capture images from 24 directions simultaneously." The pictures are interesting, but ... translations, anyone?
Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
It's just strobe interference with the cameras!
I can't read japanese as well as I once could but I think it says, "Here is our video-capture of the opening scenes from Star Wars Episode IV"
The caption on the second link says, "Help us, Obi-Wan."
That's about all I can make out.
now thats great: i am finally going to be in EVERY single picture i take with that camera. hooo, my folks are gonna like those slideshows big time!
just imagine, tele-surgery becoming standard, video calls to loved ones being more and more special, blind people missing out on something else and won't sombody think of the pr0no industry???
---- Design. Invent. Cheese.
PC Watch article (Japanese) with many pictures
MPEG movie 1
MPEG movie 2
What kind of geek doesn't wear glasses
Please, please, please, for the love of all that's intelligible, can people refrain from posting babelfish "translations".
It's okay for the odd word or phrase, but for a whole article, it's just wrong. Or, as babelfish would put it:
Please, for those the love for all the those that is understandable, can satisfy please of refrain of babelfish of the writing of the "translations" of the peoples. It is for the odd word or the approval of the sentence, but for a complete article, he is necessarily false. Or, babelfish that it puts...
evil math within Nature's Cubic Creation!
So you dont need glasses to see it, but I can imagine after squinting at 24 rotating mirrors projecting a fuzzy blob into a vague space just in front of your nose you soon *will* need glasses!
Baz
require('includes/starwars.joke');
require('includes/pr0n.joke');
My work here is done.
Holy crap. My cat already goes bonkers with the mouse pointer in 2D mode. 3D?! She's gonna friggin explode!
..........
... SLAM!!! Kitty head goes face first into hard cold monitor, while simultaneously knocking over a half can of warm Dr. Pepper all over my keyboard.
I can see it now...
She crouches down, eyes fixed on the Mecca that is my cursor, while time and space come to a stand still...
Eyes fixed, heart beating swiftly, she tactfully wiggles her butt, to confirm her primal instinct. This... this is her moment... her destiny...
She twitches her noes and squints her eyes, and runs off feeling sheepish, as I make a half ass attempt to clean off my keyboard with a dirty laundry, cause im to lazy to find paper towels.
I am totally against this technology. Totally 100% vehemently abhorrent of it. If every 3d image requires 24 2d shots to create, this is going to make my porn image collection only one twenty-fourth of the size!
And now porn is going to take 24 times as long to deliver! For every 1 shot they want to get to the end user, the photographer has to do 24 times the work. Every second spent in the studio is a second that porn hasn't spent on my hard drive! BOYCOTT I SAY! BOYCOTT!
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The last digit of pi is four.
Imagine Baywatch in 3D. I would have to take the day off when they had a marathon. I wouldn't be able to get off the couch. Although I'd ahve to sit a distance from the TV. Otherwise I would be dodging 3D "objects" the whole time.
Evolution or ID?
One of the firs applications of this new tech could be immersive karaokes, where you can sing your favourite song among a living 3D projection of the real band (without the singer of course)...
;)
Just imagine, the *huge* market that there is in Japan for this kind of stuff: all those japanesse business men impersontating Freddie Mercury after work
I'm still waiting for high-def porn to hit. Of course, that would mean I'd have to buy a high-def TV.
Good luck trying to talk my wife into that though.
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
.. if you've only got one eye, though.
And if you are not myopic, you will think you are when you are looking at Casper the Friendly Ghost bustin' a move...
${YEAR+1} is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
the next thing you know playboy.com will be /. for announcing a joint buying of Hitachi, with hustler.
-- Ben --
(and you WOULD NOT want to be there if a large, high-speed spinning element broke off of its axis and started ricocheting about the room...)
John Logie Baird had exactly this problem with his invention, it consisted of lenses mounted in a spiral on a spinning wooden disc, people call it television these days.
He also drew so much power from the grid to generate enough light that it took out the local power grid. The heat these bulbs generated made it extremely difficult for a person to even stand in front of the device.
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Someone gets a story on slashdot in another language with pictures you can barely see...an I can't get any story on here ever! HA!
what?
Depending on your girlfriend/wife it could STILL be an improvement :-P
-- vranash
THIS from someone using the handle of "Alan Partridge" . . . . .
"Obi ran, all my hope are belong to you. EKEKEKEKEKEKEK"
It's kind of cute how they set it up at just there right height for a japanese person to read - 172.6cm.