http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/ Engadget Comments for gCubik displays 3D images on 4-inch cube, we want http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
That idea would only work if looked at the cube from one direction (without moving) which isn't very 3D.]]>Jun 11th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
It must do something more complex than what we're reading here. Right?]]>Jun 11th 2008 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
My guess is the 'pixels' on the sides emit different coloured light depending on the angle they are viewed from. If this is true it means cool stuff like invisibility devices could be developed using similar (but much more advanced) technology.]]>Jun 11th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 12th 2008 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
Hopefully.]]>Jun 11th 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
Here's to hoping for the latter.]]>Jun 11th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 12th 2008 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 12th 2008 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
What i don't get is why they don't just use backlit LCDs since what that looks like to me is a cube with LEDs on each face. Obviously LEDs can also be shrunk down, and there's the prospect of OLEDs being commonplace in the near future.

It's a good concept though, a lot more doable than the rotating mirror job, since presumably all you need is to show an item at a different camera angle from each side?

I'm thinking Super Paper Mario and i'm thinking Fez.]]>Jun 11th 2008 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
Heres an example... look out of your window, find something like a tree and line it up with your hand on the glass. Now move your head, see how the tree moves away from your hand.

Now do the same thing with a picture of a tree on your LCD. Doesn't work does it.

Normal LCD's are not 3D and can only display an object from ONE ANGLE AT A TIME :0)

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However, if your latter point stands - ie that if you rotate the box it would appear to be inside - then you can only view it from one angle. That would be analgous to putting a floating bead into a circular cup of water and rotating the cup. The bead stays in the same position. Thus if say the box was displaying a picture of a lemon, you could rotate the box, but the lemon would appear from the same perspective however you looked at it.

I agree with the other part though, there must be a way of showing a different image depending on the position of the observer. I imagine that it's more like a portable version of the previous inventions, and implemented better. Inside is some kind of matrix of LEDs (although the link refers to LCDs) which would allow you to see "in"to the cube. This might explain the strange edges on the screen.]]>Jun 11th 2008 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

hee hee.]]>Jun 12th 2008 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
@Adawg2k8 - Your video wasn't as helpful... http://www.xkcd.com/396/
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aka

"Does this box have a box?"]]>Jun 11th 2008 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
*runs*]]>Jun 11th 2008 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 11th 2008 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080612/153174/

"The institute realized parallax in all directions by using a structure where an LCD panel is covered with an array of lenses."

Cool video of it in action, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=related]]>Jun 11th 2008 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 12th 2008 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 12th 2008 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/Jun 13th 2008 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/gcubik-displays-3d-images-on-4-inch-cube-we-want/
http://hct.ece.ubc.ca/research/cubee/index.html

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