http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/ Engadget Comments for Sony's 360-degree 3D prototype displays blown minds (video) 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/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/


For those that never saw the commerical]]>Oct 22nd 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
And because the link didn't show up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdh4TqWFfX4]]>Oct 22nd 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
The PSX came out in 1994. The PS2 came out in 2000. The PS3 came out in 2006. Follow the pattern, expect the PS4 in 2012, or roughly three years.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
I'm so confused as to what is going on here - It doesn't look like any type of holographic projection, but what else could do 3d like that?

I wish I could view it in 3d to get a better idea of what this looks like.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
Just my thoughts...]]>Oct 22nd 2009 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 3:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
now its just some random novelty that I could never justify buying.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 3:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
How does it handle more than one person looking at it from different angles?]]>Oct 22nd 2009 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
you beat me to the punch, +1.

@londonconsultant

what are you smoking, I WANT IT TOO!!]]>Oct 22nd 2009 6:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
The screen exists in a quantum superposition of all possible orientations. That superposition continuous collapses into a set of definite orientations, one for each person looking at it from a different angle. Basic relativity theory.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
Wow, that must seem incredibly insightful to someone who knows relatively little about theoretical physics. So is it explained by quantum physics or general relativity? Or special relativity? Three distinct theories that describe quite different phenomenons.

Here's a quick oversimplification:
Quantum physics: Things that are extremely small act in a bizarre fashion
General Relativity: Light always travels at the same speed, no matter what
Special Relativity: Gravitational forces "warp" or "curve" space-time

My guess of how it works (like most others) would be a rapidly-spinning lcd with a rapid refresh rate and a polarizing filter in the glass cylinder to provide directionality (but i'm probably wrong)]]>Oct 26th 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
I think its more likely that its an angled mirror thats spinning with a high refresh rate projector pointed at it. You get 3d because each of your eyes are getting a different image.

Interesting tech but its somewhat limited. For example, a 50" display would need to be a cylinder 50" wide and 50" tall plus you have a problem of a motor being introduced into your viewing experience.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/]]>Oct 22nd 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 3:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
I thought this was a better demonstration of 360 degree 3D rendering

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF1vFTQOWN4

Sony's is in color, but this one is done with mirrors, so it should be possible to also display in color.

Either way, both are awesome new technology that will change the way some things happen in the future.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 3:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 3:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
3-D chess like in Starwars
Electromagnetic blackholes on your coffee table
CERN converts into a holiday destination to different dimensions
Choose your own end-of-world scenarios: death by robot, 2012, interplanetary bombing!
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Look at the rotating car. The car seems static as the viewer moves around the screen. When the viewer stops the car keeps rotating. Same with the brain image.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
this is not 3D .. sony shows just a 2d picture on a rotating screen.
As soon as you move your head up or down to see a 3D effect all you
see is the usual 2D picture ... Sony does not fill a volume with this
prototype. Thats why this will stay to be a prototype and will not go
into production ... sony said it themselves ...

no Starwars like 3D chess possible here ... its a nice toy but thats all ..

wait for the "D-TANK" ... that's the real deal ...a volumetric display straight
out of scfi dreams ...

Regards


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If you've got some amazing idea as to HOW something can be made better, share the idea or make it available to the world in one way or another... but you won't... because you don't have any ideas except the ones that make you look so much more like a vinegar&water-filled bag...

As for this concept... it looks good, but I'm lookin' forward to the HD version.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/ Munky ..

sure it looks 3d as long as you dont move your head up or down ... as long as you are level with the device
you see a nice 3D illusion.

But you will not be able to show depth with this device .. have a look at the picture where it displays a red car
thats how it looks as soon as you move a little upwards .. its even hard to recognize what is shown in the picture
and it is not because it is a still .. you move your head vertical..thats how it ends up. You cannot for example
see the cars bottom or top by moving your head .. just left / right thats all and not enough.

The device from sony is a nice toy ...

and yes .. is there something better ? don't worry about that (nda)....

btw aren't we all just water filled bags ?
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normal people don't care about the how, they just like the effect...its dorks who say "FAIL" because they aren't impressed by the tech in it.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/
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I want it badly, but I have a feeling that in practice it would be annoying. Plus half the coolness of that is R2D2 and sonys system does not seem to come with an R2 unit.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/

For better results, use two displays, one facing each way. This doubles the refresh rate. For animation, you need to compute each image for the appropriate point in time at which it will be displayed. Early models of this form of display either used discrete LEDs or a DLP projector. LCDs do not have the required refresh rate.


Unlike stereoscopic displays, this is a true volumetric 3D display. When you move your head up and down, you see different images. The image computation doesn't involve projection onto 2D, but rather simply mapping volumes to the appropriate "slices". The main problem with this type of display is ghosting: you can see stuff that's behind the surfaces in front. You can kind of solve this problem for a single viewer (by tracking where he is and only lighting up voxels when they can be seen from there; still has issues with stereo), but solving it generally would require pixels that project light differently (in a controlled manner) at different angles. Essentially, for each pixel, you'd generate a whole projected image. Of course, the amount of computation needed for this (generating a "light field") goes up tremendously.]]>Oct 22nd 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Oct 22nd 2009 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/22/sonys-360-degree-3d-prototype-displays-blown-minds-video/Nov 10th 2009 2:56PM