Nine HDTVs form 3D visualization rig, but only in the name of science
By Ross Miller 
posted Aug 19th 2009 4:39AM
posted Aug 19th 2009 4:39AM
[Via PhysOrg]
posted Aug 19th 2009 4:39AM
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Why TV and not monitors
The total resolution is kind of weak. Monitors that size would be a waste.
Frame partition seems coming out of the guy's mouth, looks like camelion.
For science!
Yeah this whole "for data visualisation" thing is pretty weak.
Fuck Science, I want to play FPSes with that.
I'm glad we are using this for something awesome like paleontology and archeology instead of something boring like exploring existing complex proteins or curing cancer.
Dude, did you not watch the video? There's a 3000 year old artifact, possibly of alien origin, buried there.
Why not just use a projector and a curved screen?
Because nobody makes cost effective projectors that can do more than 1920x1080
The 3D Visualization Ring...of science!
"We can see our ancient artifacts plotted in 3d right back in the excavation pit... That yellow dot looks like a radio carbon date from the 9th Century and if we go further in, we can see the blue squares which date to the 10th Century BC."
I don't know, I guess I'd have to be standing in the rig with the magic glasses and controller. From the video, all I see is dots and squares...
I've actually used the rig the last time I was out at UCSD. The resolution is more than sufficient to be incredibly immersive. One of the demos I played with was a self directed martian terrain fly through and almost immediately I started experiencing motion effects. One of the other demos was an architectural model which gave the user a great way to really explore the structure including peripherals. They also had demos for protein folding, weather simulation, and so forth - anything thy could do on a CAVE they could do on this.
By the way, the rig I used had closer to 12 screens.
I've been in it too. After seeing the machine's imaging of Washington D.C. I immediately wanted one.
Since when does Jeff Goldblum do science?
Or is that his new movie The Prisoner meets Minority Report?
did anyone notice he's using what looks like a playstation dual shock controller?
At Mississippi State University we have a much bigger version of this and yes some of us programmers have designed several games for it. Nothing to new but quake and several other games have been made for it, definitely worth looking into. If anyone is interested I give tours of "the vertex" and you should definitely come and check it out if you have not before.