Perspecta Walk Around 3D Display

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday June 5, 2005 @02:08AM 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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Actuality Systems website. by technix4beos · 2005-06-05 02:14 · Score: 5, Informative

You'll find the company here:

Actuality Systems.

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Re:Pictures? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-05 02:19 · Score: 4, Informative

http://www.actuality-systems.com/index.php/actuali ty/products/photo_gallery
Pictures (flat) by BoneOfconTroll · 2005-06-05 02:30 · Score: 3, Informative

pictures:
http://www.actuality-systems.com/index.php/actuali ty/products/photo_gallery (old-fashioned flat, not 3D)
How does it work? A spinning screen, must be transparent I guess... what's the sci-fi sphere for?

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