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360 degree light field display

By squirrelbait - August 30, 2007

in Tech | Object Culture | Video

Obi Wan? Is that you? Oh, no? It's a generic male bust-like 3D graphic rendered in an "autostereoscopic light field display able to present interactive 3D graphics to multiple simultaneous viewers 360 degrees around the display"? Not too shabby.

The display consists of a high-speed video projector, a spinning mirror covered by a holographic diffuser, and FPGA circuitry to decode specially rendered DVI video signals. The display uses a standard programmable graphics card to render over 5,000 images per second of interactive 3D graphics, projecting 360-degree views with 1.25 degree separation up to 20 updates per second. We describe the system's projection geometry and its calibration process, and we present a multiple-center-of-projection rendering technique for creating perspective-correct images from arbitrary viewpoints around the display. Our projection technique allows correct vertical perspective and parallax to be rendered for any height and distance when these parameters are known, and we demonstrate this effect with interactive raster graphics using a tracking system to measure the viewer's height and distance. We further apply our projection technique to the display of photographed light fields with accurate horizontal and vertical parallax.

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Scott

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I can't even imagine how loud this thing is. There's a reason they didn't include the sound.
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Dizzle

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Wicked. Completely useable now, can only get better.
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ramesh

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Wow. superb, please continue your research and it might be usefull in future
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Matt

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Fake.
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Rean John

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how much is it?
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Eric

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Very very cool.

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