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Holographic Pyramid Creates a World on Your Table

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday June 23 2015, @10:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the your-face-is-a-holograph dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 1) by FrogBlast on Tuesday June 23 2015, @11:54PM

    by FrogBlast (21) on Tuesday June 23 2015, @11:54PM (#200154)

    It isn't. The techtimes article says more explicitly that it isn't a hologram. Each side of the box can get a different, flat image floating in the cube, but it's four viewpoints total, which is not something you can get parallax from. People in the techtimes comments left comments like, "This could help me with my 3D modelling," and "I can't wait to play games on it," which really underscores the fact that people wouldn't be giving it money if they actually understood what it does. Their video obscures it well enough that it seems deliberate. The whole thing is shady. It's just four flat screens, with weird presentation.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday June 24 2015, @12:01AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @12:01AM (#200157) Journal

    So it's a dud?

    Would been nice if it worked like a real 3D thing.

  • (Score: 2) by jcross on Wednesday June 24 2015, @02:37AM

    by jcross (4009) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @02:37AM (#200210)

    So no head tracking? If it offered four views, each with dynamic perspective like the Fire Phone, that could be pretty cool. Still no parallax but maybe enough of an illusion to make it *feel* like 3D.