Keep doing that and you'll go blind

Re:Keep doing that and you'll go blind by gjm11 on Thursday February 11, 2010 @11:32AM (#1117947)

Updating them in real time is difficult. You need a feature size comparable to the wavelength of the light being used, which would mean somewhat less than 1um. The smallest pixel sizes in LCDs these days are on the order of 5um across or so. Other kinds of imagers (DLP, for instance) are comparable or worse.

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Re:Keep doing that and you'll go blind by Splines on Thursday February 11, 2010 @02:32PM (#1118513)

I played a 3-d game that had the same game mechanics as Dragon's Lair (the protagonist was a time-traveling cowboy).

While each scene was pre-rendered (it was pre-recorded live action), the effect was impressive, especially considering this was probably about 15 years ago.

edit: Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Traveler_(video_game)

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Re:Keep doing that and you'll go blind by tocomment on Thursday February 11, 2010 @12:53PM (#1118195)

I don't understand. Can't we just have holograms with lower resolution?

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Re:Keep doing that and you'll go blind by eru on Thursday February 11, 2010 @01:32PM (#1118333)

Holograms don't work that way. It's a bit like a fourier-transform: One pixel on your holographic display does not correspond to one tiny feature in your image.

(Perhaps you can find more answers in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Generated_Holography and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography for the basics.)

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