The Metaverse lab at the University of Kentucky has been doing this kind of stuff for a while... all kinds of cool stuff involving projector arrays, perspective correction, etc.
Oh yeah, and you don't need rear-projection to avoid casting shadows. The Metaverse people are using active shadow cancellation... see slide 34 in the above PDF for an example...
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The Metaverse lab at the University of Kentucky has been doing this kind of stuff for a while... all kinds of cool stuff involving projector arrays, perspective correction, etc.
v ironments/vrc2003.pdf
http://www.metaverselab.org/research/immersive-en
Oh yeah, and you don't need rear-projection to avoid casting shadows. The Metaverse people are using active shadow cancellation... see slide 34 in the above PDF for an example...
Well, get an Apple ][ or TRS-80 to serve me alcohol, and I'll give you kudos instead...
>So what's the difference of me hooking up a VCR to a DVD Player and recording the stream??
Just so you know, most DVDs are protected by Macrovision copy protection to prevent you from doing just such a thing. Trust me, I've tried.
Yeah, it won't play UT, but I'd much rather have this, especially with some 802.11 luvin and a crypto card... uberkludge.