Re:A multi-user hologram table
by yathern on Thursday August 24, 2017 @09:36AM
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I have little faith in this company or approach to holograms. Euclideon has shown off their voxel based renderer for years as something that will revolutionize gaming and real-time production as we know it - but it has done no such thing. It's certainly interesting tech.
The cheesy, clearly photoshopped teaser images here do nothing to inspire confidence - and based on the technology they described - I don't believe it would work the way it looks in the image. They were vague on the details of the implementation - but from what I understand, it works like this. The table has two images projected onto it per person - each in a different wavelength - and the glasses filter out other images. Thus you have stereoscopy per person. I'm not sure if this approach could make color holograms as shown - but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
What this won't allow is holograms which protrude from the table. You can make stuff go inside of the table - or seem like it's coming out when you are directly above - but not hover over it as in the teaser images.
They also don't talk about the positional tracking technology other than:
> The computer knows where the glasses are. The glasses have some boxes with little microchips and microcomputers that we build on the side of them.
The cheesy, clearly photoshopped teaser images here do nothing to inspire confidence - and based on the technology they described - I don't believe it would work the way it looks in the image. They were vague on the details of the implementation - but from what I understand, it works like this. The table has two images projected onto it per person - each in a different wavelength - and the glasses filter out other images. Thus you have stereoscopy per person. I'm not sure if this approach could make color holograms as shown - but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
What this won't allow is holograms which protrude from the table. You can make stuff go inside of the table - or seem like it's coming out when you are directly above - but not hover over it as in the teaser images.
They also don't talk about the positional tracking technology other than:
> The computer knows where the glasses are. The glasses have some boxes with little microchips and microcomputers that we build on the side of them.