Startup Looking Glass made a "personal volumetric display" called Volume that it says will let you see VR (really, 3D content) without a headset, so you can share such content with people around you. The display is also interactive so you can move things around either by swiping on the touch-sensitive screen, waving your hands in front of it or pairing up a gaming controller. But the idea that a $999 device is "affordable" is harder to repeat with a straight face.
Errm, not really :
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=TV&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ATV&qid=1475222820&sort=price-desc-rank
I'd buy one. But it would have to be half the price and with much better specs.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/28/volume-is-a-1-000-holographic-display-for-your-home
I've always had this idea that we'd finally be able to a fully 3D hologram through something that would work like a desktop radar system.
ReplyDeleteYou stand in front of the unit, and it uses something like depth sensing radar to determine the shape of the mass to create a basic model, then a camera would map the surface features onto the model it creates. You wouldn't have the image on the "shadow" side unless the person turns around, but once they do, the unit captures the image and maps it.
Presto...Star Wars style holograms.
Yeah, when we moved from our last tube tv (Akai SD wide screen tube weighing 200+ lbs) to a flatscreen, it was around $1200. Of course, at 46" diagonal and plain old HD, it's no longer 'cool' but it works. Maybe by the time it dies, the price of holotubes will be lower?
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor I'm in Fort Lauderdale. The marine industry here is only one billion dollars behind the NFL as a money maker. Eight billion. When the "boat show" happens in the Fall, the big boats will sell for ten to fifteen million dollars. There are hundreds of them and the maintenance averages ten percent of the yacht's value each year. I'm sure this is a must-have for boat owners. ;-)
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