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- ani-pockdotnet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Video from their site! I You-tubed it for front pageness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOSx7v87JCA - nibble128, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17http://www.io2technology.com/media/Heliodisplay_brochure1.1.jpg
nice pic of it, high res
http://www.io2technology.com/media/Helio_2006_v1.mov
video of it in action
http://www.io2technology.com/
website of the product
btw... this gets a digg - AnnaHom, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Thought I saw this on here before:
http://digg.com/technology/Newest_IO2Technology:_Heliodisplay_Interactive_Free-Space_Display
http://digg.com/technology/Video_of_Game_running_on_the_Heliodiplay,_a_New_3D_Interactive_Display
http://digg.com/links/Heliodisplay_M2
http://digg.com/technology/Sin_Episodes_running_on_holographic_Heliodisplay_technology - Shibmaster75, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14It may seem very first gen but you know, were just a few steps away from, "Help me Obi-wan, Your my only Hope"....Ahhh Yeahhhhh
- kaon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I think I read about this somewhere, I don't have a link handy but if I remember correctly, they project the image on a plane of hot air rising from the machine. Because hot and cold air have different refraction indexes, the boundary of the hot/cold air can be used as a lens or mirror, projecting an image much like a mirage in a desert.
- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Looks very interesting, but there's no real mention of how it actually works (apart from clarifying it doesn't actually use holograms) or a price. It says it is "employing a rear projection system in which images are captured onto a nearly invisible plane of transformed air." Heck, "transformed air" could be hype for a smoke screen for all we know.
Something tells me this isn't the advent of screenless video we've all be hoping for, although the videos do look fairly interesting if primitive. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7minority report anyone?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11I hate being a grammar Nazi, but when I see ***** like "Your my only hope" my skeeveometer shoots through the roof...
- omega6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The last part of the video on the website is at the next fest which I went to in Chicago. They had 2 demonstrations of this. One was right in the entrance and the other what was in the video. I wasn't too impressed. It's an interesting concept but the image tends to get too distorted for any real consumer use. It's basically using what looked to be a type of fog or steam to project the image onto. Kind of similar to what dry ice produces when it's all fogging out of your little Halloween cauldron. I still digg the potential it has.
- spooky760, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Many Bothans died...to bring us this information......
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I just wish someone here would explain how the air is being 'disturbed'?
This reminds me of the virtual keyboard, on digg a few months ago.
I am hoping to one day be able to get a completely invisible computer system...Not that I will be able to afford all the parts. - StepJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Smoke and mirrors....
- limitbreakerx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you guys see how the image is wavering and constantly seems to shift? that's because the "transformed air" IS fog or smoke. The projector needs something to project onto that's different from the surrounding air. When you have a machine set up under it that's releasing fog upwards, it creates a medium to be projected on. Still, it's a step!
- junk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not that it is not impressive, but in it's current state this doesn't look like it would be good for gaming, movies or any other type of day to day computing tasks. The "Transformed Air" seems to be distorting the image in most of the demos too much.
I do think it would be cool to have a few of these at a concert or large sporting event. - superalamar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2good luck looking at porn in a cafe on that thing.
- TekJansen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very cool, I had seen this before on digg, but I think that was the previous gen machine. From what I have read, it does not use smoke, or water vapor, it uses " transformed air" and a laser . Looks kinda like an ionizer, wonder if it smells like ozone when it is running? I hope HowStuffWorks gets their hands on one of these - or the patent application.
- ShaDoWwork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2no two ways about it this is some sweet stuff yes it might be the frist step and a bit rough but honestly looking at that i cant see why it will not be a part of most homes in the next 5 - 10 years for some fuction or another be it tv remote control of heating systems or the like
as for moves this has got to be the sweetess play 100 inch movies hanging in the air would just be sweet no two ways. - Radiohead84, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Enhance
Enhance
Enhance - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now, if we could harness all the hot air spewed about on digg we could build a holographic IMAX gaming theater.
- omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Comes with free Mon Mothma action figure.
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That looks very much like the technology they are using in Corl Vorderman's Big Brain Game. And although it is exciting and interesting it actually doesn't look that impressive in a clear digital tv broadcast.
- streetlamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm...a holographic display..that you can..interact with. It must have limitless applications alright..or will just be used for pr0n.
- vtwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1At the time, they didn't show the usb touch-screen feature.
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Henry Starling just loaded in his pants.
- vtwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"That's right, into the air like a hologram"
Holograms cannot be projected "into the air" with current technology, and this is not an hologram. It's a semi-transparent 2d image that floats into mid-air.
If anything, this display shows us that even if we could project holograms into the air, the image would be blurry and wavy because of the air movement, and there's no way around this. - mhs0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It looks like it has a while to go before it would be more than just something cool to show your friends. I'd rather have a 30" dell LCD that was hidden in the wall or be raised or lowered from within a table/desk (and it would probably be a lot cheaper).
- beejay54, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Holy crap. That's definitely an invention from the movies I never thought was ever possible, where do I invest?
- jonesin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Damn, that thing is sick
- 42kami, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Freaking amazing -- not the part with displaying in air. The part where you can actually interact with the rendered air, c.f. the guy rotating the watch in the video. The applications are limitless...
- burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hax indeed. Uberhax even. I want 5.
- fishindiesea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1well in the video it looks like the machine is blowing air from the botton of the "screen"
there is also disturbance in the top left corner of the display in the vid, not sure what that means. - PowerLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a few years old actually.
- justinvt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah - what benefit does a floating screen offer over a flat panel? It is not necessarily helpful in all situations to be able to see through the display...Actually it could be very distracting. I have to admit, however, that it is really cool, and makes me proud to be a human being.
- UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love that the Star Trek usage of "hologram" has taken over for any volumetric display, as opposed to an actual laser-engraved holographic image.
- jd91dc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1holy crackers
- JoeCool1986, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"IO2 Technology has the coolest _sounding_ display I have ever _seen_"
Someone's getting their senses confused. - mrsaturn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I couldn't tell if it was actually a 3D image being produced in the air as the camera didn't rotate around the picture at all. It doesn't look all that revolutionary to me. Whatever the "transformed air" consists of, it seems to be serving as a translucent screen to be projected on. Hardly revolutionary if you ask me..
If the projected images truly has three dimensions however.. - MedHead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, it is! It was on Slashdot last year!
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/17/1534220
The comments in that article will help describe how the holographic technology works. - vtwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16 months ago they didn't show the touchscreen aspect of the display, just the screen by itself.
- UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Isn't this how the captain's comm panel worked in SeaQuest DSV? A little particulate fog to reflect off of?
- x3n1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Just *imagine* playing any 3d game surrounded by these puppies... wow, just... wow
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1perhaps the N6 will use this kidn of technology :)
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hax.
- TheslaminJ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Anyone else notice that the video playing "in mid air" is the opening menu for Tomb Raider (the first one). Pretty funny.
- triplehelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0precurser to the holo-deck?
- WiteNoiz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Pff! I bet they stole it off of Sony or Nintendo
- brenbart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I could definitely see it as a teleprompter since the image can only be seen from the front. However, in it's current version I don't see it for anything other than the gimmick factor.
It'd be cool if they could get the resolution up on it though. Imagine how nice your desktop would be if it was just a keyboard and mouse. Or rather just a keyboard. Combine it with one of those displayable keyboards for a PDA and your workstation could look like a flat desktop. - nanotube, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This looks closer to the Minority Report style touch screen but I wonder how they can control the air turbulence problem in the future (see how the image distort like a flame).
Still the coolest future touch screen display technology belongs to Jeff Han I think (watch the video):
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/index.html - theguy10, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It reminds me of that Atlantis show at Islands of Adventure Orlando where they project an image onto falling water...except here it is rising air.
Looks to me like something that would need way more work. How do you get the air to flow evenly with all of the surrounding environmental disturbances? Maybe their solution would be to sandwich the air between two pieces of glass and then maybe put a case around it to enclose the projector with the plates of glass and then maybe they could use a regular tv screen instead of air and then maybe remove the plate glass part. Yep sounds like it would work that way... - gcfalcon09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is pretty flippin sweet.. it is always a good time for an upgrade on a computer whether its a graphic card or a new screen.. everything helps the resolution and helps the eyes... lol
cheesy i know.. but it is still pretty tight -
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