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Perspecta Walk Around 3D Display

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-see-what-i-see dept.

Spinneyhead writes "New Scientist reports on the Perspecta display, a goldfish bowl like device that displays moving images in such a way that they seem to "float" within the display. "To display the image, software inside the Perspecta chops a 3D model generated by the computer into 198 separate pieces, like slices of cake, which are then projected onto the screen in quick succession by a graphics accelerator that feeds image slices to an optical system mounted below the screen. The result looks to the viewer like a 3D image composed of 100 million "volume pixels" or "voxels".""

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  1. Hey by beatdown · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doesn't look so impressive on my screen!

  2. mmmm by hjf · · Score: 3, Funny

    so now I'll finally get to see that Leia message?

    1. Re:mmmm by Lispy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, actually you would have seen the whole message if you wouldn't have gone to Toshi station to pick up some power converters. But then again much of your boring life as a moisture farmer would have been quite different and you wouldn't have been killed by a bunch of stormtroopers the day after you found that weird message inside that R2 unit. :)

  3. Nice gift by Mononoke · · Score: 5, Funny
    a goldfish bowl like device that displays moving images in such a way that they seem to "float" within the display.
    Does it say So long, and thanks for all the fish along the brim?

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    1. Re:Nice gift by tiptone · · Score: 2, Funny

      You spelled phish wrong...

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  4. I had a look at one of these once by BabyDave · · Score: 4, Funny

    The lady who was operating it said I'd meet a tall handsome stranger. Luckily she didn't ask me to cross her palm with $40k (that's a heck of a lot of silver).

  5. Wooow. by fbjon · · Score: 2, Funny
    "At the click of a mouse, the molecule disappears and is replaced by images of two airliners on a collision course."
    Just think about it. You can change pictures at the click of a mouse!
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  6. look, but don't touch by moviepig.com · · Score: 2, Funny
    Like a giant spinning lollipop, the screen, encased in a transparent polycarbonate shell, turns at 15 revolutions per second, sweeping out a solid white sphere.

    Just don't forget and reach for the pretty picture. . .

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  7. Hot damn! by elgee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I can see the back of my email messages!

    But I will have to mortgage my house to do so.

  8. It's like a lathe... by TheCulturedRedneck · · Score: 2, Funny

    A spinning display will finally justify our IT depts aversion to neck-ties. Now if we can just find a good excuse for hygeine...

  9. Re:hmm. by MyLongNickName · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's the cost of a paragraph break? :)

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