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An interactive holographic display that can create 3D digital worlds inside a special pyramid shaped display has raised more than four times its crowdfunding target.
The device, developed by Vancouver based H+Technology, sits on a table top and can be viewed from numerous different angles. Using a smartphone or tablet users can interact with 3D objects 'inside' the pyramid.
The company hopes that the device will help people to interact with technology more naturally in groups, rather than alone.
Isn't Kinect a better interface for this kind of thing?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by FrogBlast on Tuesday June 23 2015, @11:17PM
From their website:
"Holographic projection to see any given content from 4 different perspectives and 360 degree viewing angles."
This sounds like the equivalent of taping four monitors into a square and calling it a "hologram". I think they're using a vaguely interesting arrangement of mirrors to make plain old flat videos float in the middle of their box. If you want to get fancy with the middleware it sounds like they're developing, I think you can make each of the four sides of the box have a different view, which could be interesting for games or other multi-user contexts, but a hologram it is not.
The fact that they deliberately use the word "hologram" all over their site and Kickstarter makes the whole thing seem deliberate, and malicious.
(Score: 1) by Wierd0n3 on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:02AM
Well, to my eyes, it's closer to what disney uses for the haunted mansion. take a projector, aim it at a piece of glass tilted at a 45 degree angle, boom, hologram.
The innovative bit is adding motion tracking so the illusion remains stableat any angle. the 45 degree part also explains why this is a pyramid.
the upper hood is probably where the projectors are, as well as being a external light shield. (reflections/stronger light sources would damage the illusion) it would be cool if they moved the projectors inside the pyramid, but i would imagine light contamination from the multiple projectors would make it loose sharpness.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @05:39PM
How do you get a pyramid with 45-degree angles?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday June 24 2015, @01:09AM
This sounds like the equivalent of taping four monitors into a square and calling it a "hologram".
From the video I think it's an extra step ahead of that. I think it can see where your eyes are and project an image from the correct perspective relative to your position. Though I agree holographic is not the right term, I'm not sure what would be.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by VortexCortex on Wednesday June 24 2015, @02:36AM
A better term would be adaptive parallax display, or as I call it, "Virtual Window". They could be using eye tracking, or head tracking. I've experimented with such a thing a lot. I can create some remarkable 3D feeling displays that are actually 2D and rely on the fact that your head/eyes are constantly moving by tiny amounts. All I need is your screen and a webcam to make my "holograms". Others have repurposed the WII controllers / light-bar to create the effect. [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday June 24 2015, @06:27AM
It looks like a commercial version of this: http://hackaday.com/2015/02/08/dead-simple-hologram-effect/ [hackaday.com]
They inverted the pyramid and the projection actually comes from above. The rotation effect is interesting though and goes a step beyond the HaD article.
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