Panasonic shows hugemongous interactive display
By Paul Miller 
posted Mar 3rd 2006 10:15AM
posted Mar 3rd 2006 10:15AM
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So pointless, it's pointless to point it out.
I wonder if they hire tiny models to stand in front of those TVs to make them seem bigger.
This is going to be good to see in Wheel of Fortune.
That's a pretty coor interactive dispray. I wish they'd make something rike that for home use. We just got an 80 inch prasma screen for our ribrary and it's pretty coor.
I can't help but be snarky, as cool as this is:
Microsoft Bob was just ahead of it's time!
All you need is enough screen real-estate to park a battleship on.
I think we may have it beat.
55 x 30" Apple Cinema Displays.
225.28 MegaPixels.
http://spds.ece.uci.edu/~sjenks/Pages/HIPerWall.html
http://vis.eng.uci.edu/cg/projects/hiperwall/
It says in the summary "They paired a couple of 110-inch screens to create the largest interactive display we've ever seen" but if you click the link its actually just a bunch of smaller screens (you can see the lines) that are combined create "a touch sensitive screen that has the surface of two 110" TV's."
Other than that it looks like they are using a camera to track it and her movements and that it wasn't an actual tuch screen. I make that assumption based on the lag and how large the tracking resoution was (look at how she writes on the "message board" on the wall in the video).
Pretty cool though I just hate the lines between the screens.
I saw this in the Panasonic store they have in Odaiba. The display is interesting, during the demo they show off 'widget' like functionality like clocks, and cd players and radios that work off the display. Alos you can kinda bounce a ball around the display too. But it was more part of a concept integrated home where this display would act as a 'hub' for your needs.
einsteinx2: you're wrong. If you'd bother to look at the video you'd see that when they play the video the lines are no longer visible. For some reason they thought it would be a good idea to have the OS paint some lines in the interface...
Phil: That's just a bunch of monitors together. This is actually merging all the screens.
If you see the video further on, you can see that the screen is only two screens side by side. I so want to replace a large wall in my house with a tv!
Banana Juice, I thought I had gone dyslexic until I read that over again. Promptly followed by fits of laughter.
I could imagine having a screen that large built into the wall of your house by 2020. It'd probably have media center stuff along with the ability to change the temperature of your house, tell you you've got too much drugs in your urine, and crap like that.
National Grid UK has a £2million display for it's electricity control room. You ain't seen nothing.
@Gil: you were right those are drawn by the OS. I was about to make another comment saying how you were wrong and I replayed the video :). The reason why I thought that it was multiple screens is that even when they were displaying photos (and I thought videos too) the lines were still somewhat visible. Now I noticed that if you look at the audio player for instance the white crosshairs don't have gaps in them and they are going through multiple panels. Good call.
Anyway that just makes this display even sicker!
Eerily reminds me of the "walls" from Fahrenheit 451.
Wasn't this in that movie where Chris Rock accidentally dies and then is put in the body of a rich white dude?
It looks awesome, but it's incredibly impractical for everyday use. Who wants to get up and walk over to the other side of the screen? Plus, when you're up there using the thing, it's difficult to see the whole screen since you're so close to it, so it's hard to navigate. This would be useful in a classroom setting, though.
Woah, man. To think that I'm still saving up for that benq 20' (which is amazingly cheap here in SG, btw)
Never seen anything like this before egh? I guess you haven't bee watching the Situation Room on CNN, which has panels that are 3 times the area and a greater overall area.
A very big wall for just one user. Anyone know if this is multiuser as well?