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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. Old News by jakoz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Old news, but the best article I've read on this yet is the New Scientistarticle from a couple of years ago in which they first (for me) described realtime rendering using existing games. Interesting stuff.

  2. Seems like technology similar... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    to the one developed by Actuality. It was reported here on Slashdot like a year ago (I'm too lazy to find a link). Actuality's technology is described on their homepage, and since the visual appearance is similar I guess the technology is too. Plus I can't really imagine another way of making this work.

    Basically its just layers of projected images, spinning around to give the impression of volume. Still really neat though.

  3. s/unless/until by King_of_Prussia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The porn industry seems to jump on new technology a lot faster than "mainstream" industries, proving the effectiveness of new tech so the big boys don't have to take any inwanted risks. Look at multi-angle DVD's, they are only just starting to show up in genres outside of porn, and how long has the technology been around?

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