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3D Display, No Glasses Required

Posted by timothy on from the lucas-had-this-in-1977 dept.

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?

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  1. that's easy... by glowfish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

    1. Re:that's easy... by JPelorat · · Score: 2, Funny

      Only difference is, in their holographic message the princess would look like she's about 12. Possibly with fur and a tail.

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    2. Re:that's easy... by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 2, Funny
      Crap! And here I am just getting to Slashdot today when there are already 50 some +3 and up posts on this. That's ok I thought, I'll just say something clever and funny. Then I looked at the pics. I noticed the princess leia thing, and I thought hmmm.....it would be so witty of me to say "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope."

      Then I get to the posts, and the first post I see on my screen is YOURS you goddamned insensitive clod.

      Ah well,

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  2. It's rotating? by AllenChristopher · · Score: 4, Funny
    Perhaps a system like this explains how the Old Republic, despite being a spacefaring civilisation, could have such flickering fuzzy 3-D communicators.

    It's just strobe interference with the cameras!

  3. Translation by scribblej · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Translation by datan · · Score: 2, Funny

      this guy psycho-analyses his own joke and he gets modded up???

  4. 360degree shots by 6pak · · Score: 2, Funny

    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!

  5. Think of the possibilities... by qkw · · Score: 4, Funny

    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???

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    1. Re:Think of the possibilities... by Alapan · · Score: 4, Funny

      It won't be commercially successful unless the Porn industry uses it.

    2. Re:Think of the possibilities... by trezor · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why not \.? Because that would be back-slash-dot.

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  6. Informative +5 by News+for+nerds · · Score: 2, Funny

    PC Watch article (Japanese) with many pictures

    MPEG movie 1
    MPEG movie 2

    1. Re:Informative +5 by chendo · · Score: 2, Funny

      ... If I had mod points I'd mod you down for having your subject as "Informative +5". That's like, false advertising. It's like saying "Windows is bug-free!"

      And today I discovered my school's library runs on SCO *shrudder*

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  7. No glasses? WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What kind of geek doesn't wear glasses

  8. Translations by tiled_rainbows · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  9. No glasses? by Bazman · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  10. 3D Catnip and warm Soda... by Geburah · · Score: 4, Funny

    Holy crap. My cat already goes bonkers with the mouse pointer in 2D mode. 3D?! She's gonna friggin explode!

    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...

    ..........

    ... 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.

    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.

    1. Re:3D Catnip and warm Soda... by CmdrGravy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Except in this case Kitty goes head first into a high speed spinning mechanism similar to that used to create the "mechanically seperated chicken pieces" you can buy in KFC.

  11. Bah! by SinaSa · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  12. Immersive Karaokes? by dtio · · Score: 3, Funny

    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 ;)

  13. You're out of luck.. by Channard · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. if you've only got one eye, though.

  14. No Glasses: What if you are short sighted? by dwalsh · · Score: 2, Funny

    And if you are not myopic, you will think you are when you are looking at Casper the Friendly Ghost bustin' a move...

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  15. Re:Porn is the killer app. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    THIS from someone using the handle of "Alan Partridge" . . . . .

  16. Literal Japanese Translation by khrustalicious · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Obi ran, all my hope are belong to you. EKEKEKEKEKEKEK"

  17. height by Jagaast · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's kind of cute how they set it up at just there right height for a japanese person to read - 172.6cm.