Sony Demo'ing 360 Degree 3-D Tabletop Display

JoshuaInNippon writes "Sony announced via a Japanese press release that they will be showing off a prototype of a tabletop 360 degree 3-D display that can be seen in any direction without special glasses at the Digital Content Expo 2009 in Tokyo, from October 22-25. The device is quite small, at just over 10 inches tall and 5 inches in diameter. The display, using LEDs, currently supports an image that is 96 pixels wide by 128 pixels tall, with 24-bit full color. Sony also says it could have a number of applications, such as a digital sign, a digital frame, a medical display, or a virtual pet. Looking at the product image, who else wants to bet on the latter?)"

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96 pixels wide by 128 pixels tall

[oldspewey]

96 pixels wide by 128 pixels tall

If this thing is a 3D display, shouldn't there be another pixel dimension quoted here?

Re:96 pixels wide by 128 pixels tall

[spun]

96 pixels wide by 128 pixels tall

If this thing is a 3D display, shouldn't there be another pixel dimension quoted here?

I'd settle for an explanation of how the thing works.

Re:96 pixels wide by 128 pixels tall

[OzPeter]

96 pixels wide by 128 pixels tall

If this thing is a 3D display, shouldn't there be another pixel dimension quoted here?

It is probably one of the spinning mirror type displays. They project different 96 x 128 pixel images onto a spinning mirror depending on the angular position of the mirror. So the 3rd dimension that is probably missing is the minimum angular feature within the 360 degrees.

Bigger is not really the issue

[fyngyrz]

This, or something else truly 3D (as opposed to stereo tech), will no doubt be scalable. The problem we have, really, is there is no 3D media. No movies, TV shows, etc. Only computer generated imagery is readily available in 3D at this point.

Making stereo media is almost trivial. 3D is a whole nuther ball of wax. Highly desirable, but no less difficult for that.