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?
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday June 24 2015, @06:55AM
There seems to be a distinct lack of information on how this works and lots of words and phrases that could or could not mean what you think they mean...
This image:
http://www.rtoz.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Holus-copy.jpg [rtoz.org]
for example, seems to show that from the camera's viewpoint you can see someone at a different angle than the person sitting in front of the pyramid does, but none of the other videos support this. They say "3D" but do they actually mean it? Or do they mean 3D as in, it's just a flat image "floating" in the pyramid?
Let's see a real demo - switch the thing on and move the camera around it.
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday June 24 2015, @04:28PM
I posted above a good link about the details of how the effect works: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=8079&cid=200253#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
In the bottom half of the image you linked you can barely make out that the screen is in the "ceiling" and is projecting four different images downwards onto the pyramid. This results in only four different view points. But they do have a short animation that shows the viewpoints are supposed to change as you rotate around the pyramid. But that could just be BS. The HaD article has a good video explaining the effect and how to easily replicate it at home.
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