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Now if they could figure out a way to make this 3d by using an angle filter or something, which seems like it would be hard but not impossible, that would be awesome.]]>Nov 2nd 2006 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Don't get me wrong this is HUGE but no 3D display.]]>Nov 2nd 2006 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/
Give us a solid background (like any TV show, movie or game) and it won't look the same.]]>Nov 3rd 2006 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 3rd 2006 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.batteries-shop.net
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I wonder if they will be able to make a desktop size version. I don't care what the cost is. I WANT IT!!]]>Nov 2nd 2006 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/
Coming soon to some hyper-rich guy near you!

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However.... How can they show 3D content with things like movie-video content which are 2D from the start. Can't take a 2D video feed and miraculously extrapulate what it's 3D counterpart should be. (Yes, you CAN do that with a still image with multiple angle shots than morph/merge together, but that's not we're talking about here).

Adam
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Annoying.

If they're rotating and moving the image while the camera is panning, we have no idea if it's any good. We can pan a camera in front of a flat display with a rotating 3D image on the display and it will end up looking like it's rotating in 3D space.

Otherwise it's a very cheap parlor trick. Show us a NON-rotating image, pan around it, and then we can tell what kind of (1) opacity (2) distortion the images have.



]]>Nov 2nd 2006 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/A)it's not a parlor trick
B)it's certainly not cheap :)

Honestly this is great for advertising and presentations, concerts, huge logos etc. and it's going to make a killing in that market but it's not 3D yet.

Googling around for 3D displays I came upon this:
http://www.holografika.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEhCSaCekDI&mode=related&search=

THAT is Holographic display]]>Nov 2nd 2006 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/
Actually, there are no less than four major universities, including MIT, which are working on computer extrapolation of three dimensional space from two dimensional images. So far, one of the computers has successfully modelled multiple three dimensional images from various two dimensional pictures. They do require a super computer in order to make all the proper calculations, and from what I gathered reading about the articles, it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 million lines of code to be able to turn images into 3d models. And while the technology is far from perfect (there were some very bad renderings of the 3d space in a couple of the pictures), it is starting to look really good. Not only was it able to exrapolate basic 3d mechanisms, but the camera was able to turn to a 90 degree angle. Not pure 3d, but getting there very quickly. With their software, I venture it would take 5-6 images of a building to turn it into a complete 3d model with very minimal rendering issues.]]>Nov 3rd 2006 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/
I think they should call it "Cheatoptics 360"...

1) Obviously, it can't be true 3D, because there is no way to produce true 3D without all the visual information, which you can't really have, unless the image is 100% CGI, produced from a model. You can't passively record all angles simultaneously (unless you do some sort of Terahertz-wave tomography, which is... never mind.

2) The display quality looks like garbage, reminiscent of holograms from Star Wars Episode I.

3) Opacity. What do objects placed in front of each other do? This display does nothing that's really "3D". It's really misleading.

I'm sure somebody might find a purpose for this technology in some niche... but I think they're really, really being deceptive about what this does. Most 3D displays are a visual trick (2 cameras) to create the illusion of depth. These guys seem like they're doing even less than THAT... plus giving you a grainy image.]]>Nov 2nd 2006 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 3rd 2006 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 5th 2006 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/
Because what this says to me is it's kinda like a multi-monitor setup, but instead of being wrapped around you/your head, it's flipped inside out. And with 4 sources, it's a pretty craptacular one.

Also, it's dark in there. Who the hell is going to be able to see this in the noon-day sun?

BOLLOCKS I SAY!]]>Nov 2nd 2006 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://thebrooklynrail.org/archives/DEC05/ART/performa.html
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Cool thing, but I wonder how much the display medium (the pyramid in which everything is projected) costs, what material it actually is and how it is manufactured.]]>Nov 2nd 2006 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/]]>Nov 2nd 2006 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/
Seems like an awful lot of work just to make a 2d image seem to float... i'd wager there's more to it than that. ...at least an illusion of depth, even it it does work like a sprite.]]>Nov 2nd 2006 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Why does engadget keep mentioning 3D??? It's really misleading.
What I wanna ask is how the image looks outdoors, when there is sun?]]>Nov 2nd 2006 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/
However, with CGI you could (and apparently they do) produce a true 3D image.

Someone posted this link earlier: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-cheoptics360-holographic-display-system-demo

Go to "Video 2" and watch carefully as the camera pans around the rotating shoe display and rotating phone display. You actually see the contuance of the rotating object from the new angle.]]>Nov 2nd 2006 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Example. I'm seeing the front of that japanese girl dancing. A guy standing on any other side is also seeing the front of that japanese girl dancing.

*NOT 3D*]]>Nov 2nd 2006 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/Nov 2nd 2006 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/02/cheoptics360-the-future-of-3d-video-is-here/http://klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=B&game_id=10124
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This is completely bogus. No new technology here. It is absolutely not a "volumetric display".

It's four triangular-shaped panes of glass. With a video monitor on the floor under each of them. What you're seeing is a reflection on the glass of four video monitors in the base.

It's a peppers-ghost gag. The "technology" dates back to 1862.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper's_Ghost

You got fished-in by an overly-enthusiastic press-release.]]>Nov 2nd 2006 1:27PM