NASA creates hyperwall-2, the world's highest resolution visualization system
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posted June 27th 2008 8:24AM
posted June 27th 2008 8:24AM
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I see a stuck pixel, 7th row down, 14th across. RMA it.
I thought eagles had the highest resolution visualisation system.
its a shame with all the money we waste on nasa's RC car to mars project and shipping people to a floating series of tin cans in our orbit.... that they couldn't burn up the money to create on massive display, the just bolted a bunch of LCD monitors next to each other.... dont get me wrong i'd totally have a set up like this in my office for no good reason, but c'mon man, it's nasa, they couldn't have big display built up somehow?
That makes our 15 screen, 34 megapixel wall look tiny:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardcunningham/859013515/
playing COD4 multiplayer on that would b sweet, Crysis would b amazing
For some reason it reminds me of Optimus Maximus... Can it be put on the floor and used as the greatest keyboard ever, a la BIG?
And has someone created a keymap for Optimus with an image of the Earth? That would be so sweet I'd be aaalmost tempted to buy one.
...but why?
Didn't Colonel Sanders use one of these to run the Matrix?
It all sounded so good, until I got off my rss-feeder-ass and looked at the pic....
What's with all the plastic frames!!!!!!
I won't get excited until the screengoodness is as uninterrupted at egyptian-road-pavers ...
Someone find me a kick ass "visualization system" where you can't slide a piece of notepaper between the screens, then I will become less terafloppy on the spot.
Right now, phhh... it's just a bunch of screens piled atop eachother. And they aren't even curved ... Sheesh....
(sarcasm provided free)
I dunno .... how cool can it be when it has a giant grid on it?
I mean, is anyone going to boast about having a 2160p monitor with the lines of a criss-crossing matrix going across the screen?
It's like a real life game of Defcon!
It's full of stars!
Seems funny to me that NASA, who deal with Space, which is for the most part darkness/black, have choosen LCD. My god they aint going to see anything most of the time!
Should have waited for OLED.
No one defend LCD please, your just wrong if you try.
Can it play Thermal Global Nuclear War???? or a nice game of chess?
I want one!
I'd be happy with 1.. hell 1/4th of it..
So, can I have Hyper-Wall-1?
bezels... OLED's wouldn't have this problem.
meh!
They'll just use it to fake another moon landing.
Wow... I wonder how those nerds watch DVD-quality porn on a screen that has a quarter of a billion resolution.
Wow... I wonder how those nerds watch DVD-quality pr0n on a screen that has a quarter of a billion resolution.
Wow... I wonder how those nerds watch DVD-quality p0rn on a screen that has a quarter of a billion resolution.
What is the point of such a high resolution if the graphics themselves aren't that high a resolution esp if they play live feed from their cameras to watch some shuttle launch.and if they r going to use it to track satellites on a world map it becomes even more pointless. I think they r just trying to "justify" the massive budget!
what's with the grids, common scientists!
It maybe the highest resolution display in industry, but it's actually only the second biggest in the world...
http://vis.ucsd.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Research_Projects:_HIPerSpace
Each monitor is a 30" Dell running at 2560x1600, and it's 2 years old!