salf Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Holy crap, check this out. http://cat2.mit.edu/deskrama/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dollus Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Saw this in the Emerging Technologies section at Siggraph this year. Great guys to talk to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahorela Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 I'm a little confused......so you just present this LCD with a drawing or rendering and it shows it in 3d?????? :confused: how does it work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 You need to do a 3d model with a baked radiosity solution. The drawing sheet has an IR tag and the flat panel has position and rotation sensors. It uses the tag and the sensors to put a camera in the model according to the position and rotation of the panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I didn't see the price tag on that. Says its inexpensive, anyway really cool. Especially if you get a NPR image onto it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landrvr1 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Uh oh. I love technology, but I must be getting jaded. That thing peaked my interest for about .5 sec, and that's about it. I mean, what's the point? Client's wouldn't have the patience to sit and watch someone fiddle around with that thing. Trying to get the angle right so that everyone can see it.. hahahahah. Seriously, what IS the benefit to this thing? Now, those tabletop holographic projectors that I saw last year - the ones that actually project onto water vapor molecules in the air.....now THAT is cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 This is university research, not product development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salf Posted October 26, 2006 Author Share Posted October 26, 2006 Uh oh. I love technology, but I must be getting jaded. That thing peaked my interest for about .5 sec, and that's about it. I mean, what's the point? Client's wouldn't have the patience to sit and watch someone fiddle around with that thing. Trying to get the angle right so that everyone can see it.. hahahahah. Seriously, what IS the benefit to this thing? Now, those tabletop holographic projectors that I saw last year - the ones that actually project onto water vapor molecules in the air.....now THAT is cool. 1- Would be a nice new way of showing projects to clients, developers, etc, granted no biggie, but It will be nice, specially if the clients can manipulate it. 2- Will be more productive to use "inside" the office (as an architect) not only as a presentation tool, but to aid in the design process 3- It says is a research, the technology could be applied in medicine, to explore the human body, if you are a medicine student it would be a great tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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