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Monday October 9, 2006
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This might sound like it comes straight from a futuristic movie or video game, but it's happening right now: Danish company viZoo's Cheoptics360 visual medium lets you enjoy presentations and films using floating 3D video images that can be viewed with equal veracity from all angles. Take a look at the cool video at the company's site for a taste of how this actually looks. The Cheoptics360 is a four-sided pyramid (I'll bet you already guessed it was a pyramid) made of transparent material. Video images free from a background and frames are created in the company's FreeFormat. Why a pyramid? The shape acts as a prism that gobbles up all the light from four video projections and fits them together to create the images. Inside the pyramid, the images achieve three dimensions through surface mirroring and reflections. ViZoo says that flat-panel HDTVs are the Cheoptics360's biggest competitors for a market that is looking for the best and brightest in visual experiences. But although some companies have jumped on the bandwagon and inquired about the Cheoptics360, few are ready to spend the money and time it would take to make something viable out of the technology. So the idea of holographic visual images may (once again) be put on the back burner until the world can catch up. Post by Don Reisinger
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October 9, 2006 8:22 PM
I can buy that this works for computer modeling, but the video isn't really that cool because it's all in 2D anyway, so they could be completely faking the depth perception and I wouldn't know it. Of most suspicion is the footage of people dancing, which seemed obviously 2-D. If you wait towards the end, even the universal sign looks to be in 2-D where they accidentally panned too far to the right and you caught a glimpse of the skewed projection. They should have had a still image and had the camera pan around the image. Still easy to fake, but gives the better idea.
October 10, 2006 7:59 PM
if they really wanted to show 3-D they wouldn't have so many fast moving objects.. it should be a single object stopped and have the camera pan around the pyramid. this would demonstrate 3-D not going back and fourth with boxes and crap flashing all over the place.
October 11, 2006 10:18 PM
The link 'cool video' is broken, doesn't work http://www.3dscreen.ramboll.com/ Cheers
October 13, 2006 7:02 AM
I watched the youtube video here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNdY98GH7sQ not sure what you guys watched, but there's a still of a SUV being built from thin air.and the people dancing you can see through them... you can actually see the other side of their bodies.. which would be very hard to fake, having the camera pan around. I know George Lucas had a team of people doing 3D video. Though I'm not sure if this is the system they were basing their work on. I think it would have been better to show the limits of the pyramid, by having the "video" go to the outer edges. I would like to see a much smaller version of these produced.Also having the point at the bottom makes sence for such a large space, but it would seem like there wouldn't be as much usable space for the ground.