iCinema and projectiondesign collaborate on panoramic displays

Oh sure, it's not like we haven't witnessed ginormous rotating panoramic displays before, but it seems as if projectiondesign and the iCinema Research Centre of Australia's University of New South Wales are taking their long-standing partnership even further with new applications for the AVIE 360-degree 3D multimedia display. Recently showcased at the International Sydney Festival, T_Visionarium will offer up "an all surrounding 3D spectacle of hundreds of video clips that the viewers can interactively sort and edit," and apparently, the duo is also gearing up to bring the somewhat similar iDome to various training facilities across New South Wales. Unfortunately, we have our doubts about such technology ever being home-bound -- for obvious reasons, of course.

[Via AboutProjectors]

[sarsar @ Feb 17th 2008 10:11AM]

"Unfortunately, we have our doubts about such technology ever being home-bound -- for obvious reasons, of course"

mmmm...

stetoscopic head mounted displays + head tracking = cheap home-bound altetrnative

the future is ..... now?

[N30 G30 @ Feb 17th 2008 10:12AM]

A "Danger Room" without the danger!!!! Awesome!

[webon @ Feb 17th 2008 10:35AM]

I bet this will be used in pr0n very soon

[Andy @ Feb 17th 2008 11:01AM]

And in other news, Apple sues iCinema and trademarks the letter i. English language to be rewritten.

[michael @ Feb 17th 2008 11:57AM]

Apple doesn't even own "i".

You've got iHome, iGoogle, iLike, and a bazillion other iMonikers that don't belong to Apple.

The "i" prefix, initially stood for "internet", though the iPod didn't really have internet capabilities besides iTunes. So now we've got tons of i prefixes that usually don't relate to the internet itself sadly.

So Apple doesn't own "i". Lots of companies use it, some do so sarcastically. Even Microsoft could pull an "i" out one of these days. Apple doesn't own it.

[Andy @ Feb 17th 2008 12:09PM]

holy taken too seriously batman! Did you really think I was serious? Do you really think a company could do the BS I was spouting?

[michael @ Feb 17th 2008 1:23PM]

No. I was just saying, that's all. Calm down.

[anonymous @ Feb 17th 2008 4:49PM]

"e" was the prefix for internet. "i" was at first Apple's prefix.

[Ron Smith @ Feb 17th 2008 12:12PM]

Very much for industrial use. You should see what the intelligence community has access to, an entire room that is an interactive 3d Display. Literally the holodeck, except you stay in the middle of the room.

[Rikkk @ Feb 17th 2008 4:08PM]

Talk about home-bound . What ever happened to da long overdue " VR "? Technology in a cash an carry system. Truly - Enter a world.

[whatishalo? @ Feb 17th 2008 7:56PM]

Hmmm...not bound for home use...what to do with my spare round room in the basement now?? I guess fill it with potatoes...

[Drvec @ Feb 17th 2008 8:36PM]

I've had a play with this thing, the best part was when windows crashed and all the fancy graphics was replaced by six overlaid XP desktops with error messages. That said, it is truely awesome.