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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.

  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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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

  7. 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.