Volumetric 3D Display only $40,000

[vee_ess]

http://www.actuality-systems.com/img/logo.gif (http://www.actuality-systems.com) has produced a crystal-ball like display of tomorrow. This display can interact with Windows and Linux running mainstream apps because its Spatial Rendering Kernel is designed around standards like Open GL.
http://www.actuality-systems.com/img/pict_left.jpg
The technology behind it is not yet 3D-based as it uses a projector running @ 5000 FPS (frames per second) aimed at a rotating screen resulting in an optical illusion. Each projection is 768 pixels by 768 pixels which make the total 198 projections for each image (which are each 10 in. in diameter). Each image contains 100 million "volume pixels" or "voxels". The TI 1600 MIPS DSP (digital signal processor) runs the display. These are, however, limited to 8 colors.
http://www.actuality-systems.com/img/pict_right.jpg
The Actuality Perspecta display, which runs $40,000 and up, will likely not make it in the mass-market. "Component costs will decrease," said Gregg Favalora, Actuality's chief technology officer and a co-founder. "There could be a desktop unit in the future."

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has become the first customer for this.

This is the first 3D display that is not based on either 2D rendering or requires goggles to be put on. "The industry is still a little ways off from full-motion 3D movies," Favalora said.

[Grinnin Reaper]

I want one when the 27" globe's get down to SPAMa few hundred. SPAMIt look kick ass and I'ld love to have one but damn. SPAMI could almost get my dodge viper for that kinda cash.

[MIK3]

yes i do agree with Grinning Reaper on this one...this is pushing a dollar a bit much! SPAMBut man how technology has advanced...as i look as these pictures i feel as if im looking at a piece from Star Wars! SPAMI love the whole 3-D projection, but i think that the viewing space is too small...but the projection makes up for it! SPAMOne setback that id point out, being that this is $40,000globe is equipped and limited to 8 colors...thats one thing to change for the future... ;D

[Uranium-235]

Yeah. Once we get the whole energy to matter thing down we can make real holodecks where we can do anybody we want on :D SPAM

[Bear]

doesn't energy always matter ? SPAM;)

[MIK3]

i think he might have been talking about turning energy into matter...in that case we would easily rule the world with a touch of a button once we got the hang of it! SPAMNow that is smart thiniking!

[Uranium-235]

I'm saying, if we could. I could do Pamela Anderson!

And if we could also master it so the matter would stay, we could replicate hardware for our computers!

[MIK3]

man i dont think i would have enought time to name all of the stuff that i would like to make...but i know for sure one of the first things that i would make would have to be every ferrari model ever made! then money...and so on and so forth..ya get the picture dont you?

[vee_ess]

I don't see how it could be that hard to make ourselves. There is no gas/electrical technology going on here, just a projection on a spinnnng screen. Then you make a breadboard to convert the signal. Would require some work and research, but not nearly $40,000 worth.

I think you misunderstood it...It is not a holodeck at all, it is just a projector like what we have already on a spinning screen...you'd keep getting whacked if you try getting into the image...

[MIK3]

yes i know that...the subject was just brought up and i thought that it would be cool! SPAMIve seen clocks that kind of have this sort of technology but not nearly as advanced...a simple pendelum swaying action with a single poll back and forth, not an entire screen...but it still sets me back to hear that it only had 8 colors!

[vee_ess]

When more companies focus on this, there will be 32-bit in a heart beat; and the resolution will be way better too, but then again how can you compare and flatscreen resolution X x Y to a 3d resolution X x Y x Z!

[Uranium-235]

Yeah. Forget 3d games where you see 3d on a flat screen. Soon you will have a 2d projection in a 3d enviorment. And If Somebody develops an API for games for it. We can be playing *real* 3d Games. Imagine it. Soon we won't be measuring our screens by diagonal width, but by XYZ size.

[Bear]

i think he might have been talking about turning energy into matter...in that case we would easily rule the world with a touch of a button once we got the hang of it! SPAMNow that is smart thiniking!

Was just playing with words SPAM;D

[MIK3]

oh i see! SPAM:o :o :o BTW, vee_ess, is there any arrival date that is to be put with this SPAM$40k "crystal-ball" ?