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[maestro949]

Pretty cool. Combined with voice activation and eye tracking UI I could see it being useful in a CAD system for bioengineering synthetic proteins and then dumping those proteins into the cell of a Sim-Life system and then fast forwarding and back in order to visualize the results of said proteins affect on chemical reactions within the cell. Zoom in, zoom out, pan to different areas of the cell, zoom in on a lysosome and sadly watch it engulf your new creation, zoom outside the cell to monitor extracellular activity, pause, make adjustments to the parameters of the underlying neural net that's driving it all and rerun, etc.

[Live Forever]

Way cool! The best part of Minority Report was that they were doing the stuff on clear displays. That is probably not too far off either though.

[maestro949]

The same user interface being demo'ed by the creator Jeff Han.

[JohnDoe1234]

Wow, I wonder how much hardware is involved in projecting and sensing the visual data... I can't wait until I can get my hands on one!

[maestro949]

Probably depends more on the calculations driving what is being visualized. A multi-tiered approach would probably be needed for something like visualizing biological simulations. The newer GPUs are making some nice strides that would dovetail nicely with this interface on the front end.

[JohnDoe1234]

Well, I was talking a bit more on the side of how it's getting the image on the screen, he mentioned it was a projection, so I'm assuming the glass part itself is nothing more than a layer of Indium-Tin-Oxide with a really dense grid separation. Or maybe it uses like a tripod of IR cameras that calculate where the fingers are and relays that to the computer.

[maestro949]

Here's how microsoft implemented it. They just filed for a patent for this...

TouchLight: An Imaging Touch Screen and Display...

[JohnDoe1234]

I think it would be a fun project to try to build one of those setups, minus the intense visual processing system [tung]

[maestro949]

Heh, yeah, it'll probably be a few years before we see an API for these. Would probably have to code the graphics support from the ground up.

Well, at least you can get tanked and while playing around with a simpler version of the concept while sitting at the bar...

[maestro949]

And some more. Why can't they demo something remotely useful?



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[JohnDoe1234]

Are the last 3 videos loading for anyone? I can't seem to get them to load... even directly from the youtube site they wont load for me... weird

[Live Forever]

Are the last 3 videos loading for anyone? I can't seem to get them to load... even directly from the youtube site they wont load for me... weird 

YouTube is down for maintenance. They should start working again in a little while.

[garethnelsonuk]

Way cool! The best part of Minority Report was that they were doing the stuff on clear displays. That is probably not too far off either though.

Old thread but I just noticed this and had to reply - what makes you think this isn't possible already? I can think of a few methods of doing it and might just do it for the hell of it at some point if I get the chance to. I already built a wearable PC and cranial electrostimulator for fun.

[stephenszpak]

I think this is the very first video:

[stephenszpak]

3D without glasses. This will (I think) be an important thing
is display technology in the short term (until 2020?)

I guess this will be available soon. But is uses glasses. Not a big
deal, but I think glasses will be gone soon. Who *wants* to wear them?

http://www.iz3d.com/...erience_it.html

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This is a toshiba monitor. I *assume* the images are real and made with
the monitor. Maybe the glass cylinder is on the screen physicaly? I can see it
off screen at 17-second mark

Still you can't see 3D on a 2D screen. Imagine photos and
maps and games etc. in 3D. I think 2D will go the way of Black and White
monitors and TVs.

Hope this is not too far off-topic. -Stephen

http://www.youtube.c...related&search=

http://www.youtube.c...related&search=

Good demo below:

http://www.youtube.c...related&search=

(Philips demo below. It does not show off 3D at all.)

http://www.youtube.c...related&search=

[maestro949]

Rebuilding 3D space from a large collection of photos...

Photosynth


Try it out yourself

Edited by maestro949, 17 June 2007 - 12:42 PM.

[maestro949]

This is very cool. Not sure how it might help in the biology realm. Perhaps nanobots?

Physical Intervention in Computational Optimization



PICO

[JohnDoe1234]

Wow, that photosynth preview was really cool, I expected it to run really sluggish, but it ran very smoothly, are there any projected dates as to when this might be available to end users?

About PICO... I guess I'm still missing something, but I don't really see a purpose for it, it doesn't seem like anything a nicely tuned physics engine can't do, though... I could see some pretty neat applications for games.

[Live Forever]

Yeah, photosynth is cool. Pico didn't blow me away. It seemed like something you could do just onscreen, and the putting on of all those little plastic constraints, having to pour soap on the table, etc, seemed a bit much for the average user.