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Heliodisplay In Production
David writes "News of a 3D display that projects an interactive image into thin air, the Heliodisplay, is not exactly fresh. What is new however, is that this once far-fetched conceptual object is now real, working and being sold. For those of you who have forgotten, the Heliodisplay from company IO2Tech projects into the air (without a need for special screen) images fed to it from a variety of sources. In a way, it's a working version of R2D2s holographic projection system." A similar product, the Pocket Beamer was previously covered on Slashdot.
I wonder if there is a mod_slashdot around that will serve a 503 if it detects a few Slashdot referrers in a short period of time. That would be a smart way to save bandwidth. It would be nicer if it would automatically coral cache itself and then serve a redirect though.
And still no freakin' price list- who puts up a ecommerce site and fails to tell people how much the damn thing COSTS?
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
I think this is one of those, if you have to ask you can't afford it things.
A Free Market requires informed intelligent consumers, such people are rare, we're in trouble.
And as far as anybody knows, you can't project an image "onto" thin air. There's likely a thin diffuse surface out there acting as a projection screen.
A looong way from 3D image projection.
So the question is...What does it "convert" the air to? Using a mist would add to the air, but it is not adding something that does not already exist...Definitely marketing speak.
Not trying to jump all over you for making the statement, but I'm sick of that statement.
I don't care if I can't afford it, I want to know the price.
This is the same kind of nonsense that realtors use. They'll list a house, but not the price, in hopes that people will call them. If the house is too expensive for the caller then the realtor can try to find something else.
Sure, it's a good way to get more contacts but I don't care. I don't want to waste my time calling someone if I can't afford it in the first place. Just give me the information and let me make my own decision if I can afford it or not. Stop with all the cloak and dagger crap.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Filed under: General and Unusual
So those two aren't mutually exclusive? Does that mean its generally unusual?
Sigs are for Terrorists.
"it appears 3D"
You mean like QuakeIII does on my regular screen?
Except that it's not the flat surface of the screen that makes an image appear 2D, otherwise when you looked out the window of your house everything would appear flat.
We perceive depth because we have two eyes and when you look at something in 3D you get slightly different images in each eye. This is how 3D movies work.
Since both eyes will see the exact same image, although at different positions relative to the background, your brain will process it as a flat object hanging out in space, much like the things you would see in an old Viewmaster.