Gigantic HiPerWall of Cinema Displays at UC Irvine

Researches at the University of California at Irvinve have linked fifty 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays together to create what may be the world's largest television, called HiPerWall (Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall).

Driven by 25 Power Mac G5s, UCI's specially-developed software spreads a single image across all 50 displays making it a natural for medical imaging and satellite photography that previously had to be viewed in fragments. The software was developed by the team at the Calit2 Center of GRAVITY (Graphics, Visualization and Imaging Technology).

Next up, according to Falko Kuester, one of the system's designers, is 3-D and a consumer-level version that supports 3 or 4 displays, enabling you to have a giant wall of video in your own home. That sure is a far cry from watching last night's Lost on your teensy weensie video iPod. Make it cost about the same as a 50" Plasma and I'll take two!

[via MacsOnly!]