Immersive Display Creates Panoramic Virtual Screens
Immersive displays generally either involve giant screens à la IMAX, virtual reality (VR), or augmented reality (AR) headsets that place tiny screens and lenses close to a person's eyes to simulate large screens that encompass most of a user's field of view. Engaging as immersive displays are, electrical engineer Barmak Heshmat and his colleagues at an AR startup, "realized the bitter reality that people don't want to wear headgear; it's just too much friction to have something on your face. I think people can talk volumes about that, considering that now everyone has to wear masks.
"Just imagine wearing a 200-gram object on your face for 6.5 hours," Heshmat says. "It is really exhausting, but 6.5 hours is the average time we spend in front of computers, easily, every day."
[...] The 13-by-30-inch pilot displays Brelyon is developing will have a perceived screen 122 inches large, as seen from 55 inches away, says Heshmat, who is Brelyon's CEO. The displays will each provide an immersive 101-degree field of view, with a 4K to 8K resolution and high frame rate, he adds. "We can replace six 32-inch monitors with the size of one," Heshmat says.
The company says that, whereas conventional displays direct flat images at viewers, its light-field display creates a window-like 3-D scene by recreating the field of light rays that might travel from every point and in every direction within a 3-D space.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday July 28 2020, @02:31AM (1 child)
It sounds to me like another 3D TV.
It almost sounds great, except no-one wants to pay extra for it, then no-one actually wants it, then it goes away.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday July 28 2020, @03:41AM
3D as an unused gimmick is not the point of this. Having a compact multi-monitor replacement is. If the price is right and it works as claimed (could be shown off at a Best Buy, Micro Center, Costco, etc.) then it can be viable.
The PC monitor is already full of overpriced LCD trash that seems to keep selling, even though TVs can be a better option. But the miniaturization is part of the appeal, and this potentially does much better at that than a curved desktop monitor.
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