Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface

Re:Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface by Animats on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:47AM (#17607549)

It's not a hologram, of course. It's a stack of flat displays.

That's been tried before, in many ways. The first try was a vibrating mirror.[1] There's a flat rotating mirror system from FakeSpace.[2] It's not bad; you can walk around it. Move vertically, though, and the illusion breaks down. There's a scheme with gas ionized by intersecting laser beams. That's very low-rez, but truly volumetric.

Eventually, someone may come up with a real hologram system with decent resolution. A research group at MIT built one, but it was very low resolution and single-color. It's not impossible. But this isn't it.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gvPS1m40gw

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Re:Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface by lhl on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:06AM (#17607865)

I'm pretty impressed by what FOVI3D [1] has been doing w/ their light field displays. Here's a recent interview from SID Display Week this year [2] that's refreshing because the CTO (in the interview) goes into some of the details of the challenges they face and isn't unrealistic about how hard it'll be to overcome them.

[1] http://www.fovi3d.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4544D4PUo

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Re:Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface by Luuseens on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:47PM (#17611740)

There's also multi-planar rear-projection screens by Lightspace[1], they essentially have a stack of liquid crystal diffusers (20 or so) that can switch between transparent or diffusing state.

[1]http://lightspace3d.com

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Re:Looking Glass – A new type of holographic interface by jedimastert on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @07:41AM (#17608481)

Did you forget the first link?

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