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A 3-D Holographic Display

Posted by kdawson on from the you-are-our-only-hope dept.

ZonkerWilliam sends along a link to a Wired writeup on a novel 3-D holographic display developed at USC. Be sure to watch the video at the bottom of the page. "The process is not simple but can be defined through a few key concepts: Spinning mirrors, high-speed DLP Projections, and very precise math that figures out the correct axial perspective needed for a 360-degree image (even taking into account a viewer's positioning.)"

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  1. 3D? by tom17 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It doesn't look very 3D in the video to me!

    1. Re:3D? by MiceHead · · Score: 3, Funny

      Me neither. Try using http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/27/1551232 to display the video.

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    2. Re:3D? by steveo777 · · Score: 3, Funny

      I tried the link, but all it did was lead me to this page where some jerk set up a recursive link and now I'm all out of system RAM from all the tabs...

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    3. Re:3D? by dmbasso · · Score: 2, Funny

      I see you're one of the 45% that still didn't upgrade Firefox ( http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/27/1458227 ). If you were using Firefox 3, you'd never be out of RAM. They optimized it so well that all the memory leaks got converted into memory sources! I'm with 2^26 tabs opened, and now I have a petabyte of RAM!!!

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  2. Just like the holodeck by Emb3rz · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can't put your hand through the image and disrupt it!

    More accurately, if you try, your hand is likely to be destroyed by the mirror spinning at very high speeds. It's sort of like a force field...

    1. Re:Just like the holodeck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Or a lawnmower blade.