SeeReal demonstrates prototype holographic display

Three-dimensional displays have long been fodder for a good laugh, but Germany's SeeReal is taking a serious approach with its latest holographic prototype. Showing its stuff at the Society for International Display (SID) forum in California, the company has reportedly "developed a new technology for displaying 3D images on a TV set, computer display, or through a projector." The trick is seemingly in the company's proprietary Tracked Viewing Window technology, which "limits pixel size to HDTV levels and in combination with a real-time tracking system, eliminates superfluous elements while reducing the need for real-time processing." The firm's main objective was to remove the inconvenience factor that's typically associated with viewing 3D imagery, and with its unique use of holography, it has reportedly done so. Of course, the outfit is still on the hunt for willing and able partners to kick out products to the commercial world, but according to the CEO, it already has "a number of promising contacts in that regard."

[Via PCLaunches]

[surfwax95 @ May 29th 2007 3:24PM]

God damned velociraptors.

[Mark @ May 29th 2007 3:17PM]

Why is it always that pic of a raptor for the 3D displays? Anyway this 1 sounds better than that lame layered one.

[Darkzero63 @ May 30th 2007 2:10AM]

I want the one that was in the Minority Report.

[Kuszi @ May 29th 2007 3:47PM]

I think it is better: http://holografika.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=92
72'' and yes, it have a real time video Demonstration.

[HoloGuru @ May 30th 2007 3:38AM]

Holografika's system is quite nice but it is not holography. They also use up to 96 LCoS displays to create their large size prototpyes. So a product will not come cheap ...

[Calvin @ May 29th 2007 4:00PM]

Shouldn't be that long now before the horror filled night mares begin.

[Clinton @ May 29th 2007 4:28PM]

Well, when I was still in Germany, I went to an iMax theatre.
In front of the entrance there were these little picture frame type boxes, and they looked completely 3d, and that was without the glasses on. It was amazing.

I dont know if this is even related to that. I hope so.

[Gizmo @ May 29th 2007 5:11PM]

Well I for one welcome our velociraptor overlords.

[Wang @ May 30th 2007 2:34PM]

SID stands for "Society for Information Display," not "Society for International Display."

[DarkFader @ May 29th 2007 5:48PM]

Anyone got a video of it? I won't believe it until I see it :)
And I wonder if it can handle multiple persons. Perhaps the quality then drops?

[Revels @ May 29th 2007 8:08PM]

Very dissapointed that's not Raptor Jesus!

[HoloGuru @ May 30th 2007 3:32AM]

Multi-user is actually possible in various ways. If everybody sees the same (TV news) you can play with the light sources to serve a few viewers at once. If everybody wants his own view (look-around effect or even different programs) you may multiplex, ie faster displays are required.

(Next public demo is supposed to be in Japan at FPD in October.)