Comments on: A display that makes interactive 3D seem mind-bogglingly real

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:31:47 +0000

The glasses will replace all this using AR, the pen and tablet disappear instead!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:28:31 +0000

3 more months until the Rift… Gives me time to finish my current game at least.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:24:44 +0000

There’s a huge latency issue you have to deal with for AR on mobile phones. I did a test AR project earlier this year on an iPhone 4S and ended up either having to put up with the latency or create a smoothing algorithm. Not sure how well others have managed, I’m not the greatest programmer.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:33:35 +0000

They should credit Johnny Chung Lee if they already haven’t. Quite a while back I watched his WII remote youtube videos and then his appearance on TED.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:18:44 +0000

Three.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 07:00:01 +0000

They cheat in their image and video demo (the objects cannot be moved or positioned beyond the edge of the screen and they should give credit to Johnny Lee who demonstrated the same thing 5 years ago with a Wiimote and $5 worth of drug store hardware.

By: Superxcm

Superxcm — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:24:16 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

looks like idea comes from this.:P

By: Nate B

Nate B — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:13:43 +0000

Can you explain how this is different from what CAVE environments have been doing for 20 years? Tracker on the head, tracker on the stick, parallax and all that jazz, yup. Boggle-check: Nope.

By: snake0

snake0 — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:27:23 +0000

One step at a time, combining this (or a full VR headset for the more hardcore of us) with a haptic interface such as gloves would allow you to ‘feel’ the objects on screen and speed up operation even more. Making CAD models will soon be as simple as a child playing with toy bricks.

By: Eric Anderson

Eric Anderson — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:18:38 +0000

I can see a range of users from a docor ho performs surgey to a Mc Donalds worker in India controling a rbot in the USA or anyon anywhere being a maid ir cook via a robot located where the ervice is needed and paid for.

By: ChrisF

ChrisF — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:56:15 +0000

Right.. and it only works so long as you’re looking in the general direction of your monitor. Turn your head or lean too far to the side, and the effect is immediately broken. I’m holding out for true HMD-based immersion…

By: ChrisF

ChrisF — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:53:43 +0000

Exactly … I played around with a version of that tech using the “TrackIR” head tracker recently. It was fun for a while but the novelty quickly wears off. The basic problem is that the 3d effect only works within the boundaries of the monitor (obviously) – once the object clips the border, the effect is immediately broken. I really don’t see much to get excited about here – i’ll hang on for the Oculus Rift I think…

By: GAUSS

GAUSS — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:29:37 +0000

I’ve worked with these. They’re AWESOME.

By: melajara

melajara — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:28:15 +0000

synesthetic, sorry for typo. @Editor, I feel sorry to have been the involuntary cause of the edit function removal some months ago. We really miss that feature (sigh).

By: melajara

melajara — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:24:14 +0000

Right, and becoming an audio sculptor.

More generally this is the beginning of a crop of synestetic (or cross-sensory) user interfaces.

Synestetic interfaces is also an interesting approach for boosting learning abilities or, literally, grasping difficult subjects.

By: melajara

melajara — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:07:41 +0000

Let’s play virtual skeleton with this.
You are given the 206 bones of a human being. Your job is to name them and position them in space to ultimately reconstruct a full skeleton .
For geeks, we have a version with 300+ bones, and no its not for a cat but to build up a human baby!

By: Kristof77

Kristof77 — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:25:53 +0000

Reminds me of Ironmans desing program, find a way to drop the glasess and pen and well have some really cool virtual reality…. even with the glasses and the pen really cool vr possibilites here

By: GatorALLin

GatorALLin — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:29:03 +0000

can we get this as a $10 phone app? (please)

By: aus

aus — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:14:52 +0000

How many years until full-out interactive holodecks?

By: Another Rob B

Another Rob B — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:00:24 +0000

I was about to say the same thing, it would be even better it it could track the eyes focal point and adapt the image.

By: JC

JC — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:38:29 +0000

Looks like it could facilitate custom assembly by a skilled human controlling several robotic arms. The factory floor could be human free while the human assemblers in a separate room control powerful robot arms. Perhaps to build with dangerous alloys.

By: Jeroen

Jeroen — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:26:24 +0000

Reminds me of a modified Ninteno WII (sensor bar on your head) to track head movement and display accordingly. Only this one incorporates stereoscopy as well. Maybe not all new, but cool nevertheless

By: Maxdepondt

Maxdepondt — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:06:07 +0000

Cool but usefull?
The demo is pretty basic and the pen doesn’t seem very handy. I am a fan of AR usually, but I think this is one just one more wow effect.
Wating for much more from Zspace. they should partner with Leap motion to develop a real modeling interface… but Oh, too bad, Leap Motion is already developing that by themselves….

I have to admit I appreciate the way they advertize to Maya users in their demo, but being one myself I can tell you that with my traditional USB mouth, I work much faster than the guy in the TVC (apparently) and I don’t objects to pop up from th screen (even though I am not against it)
I need powerfull tools that speed up my workflow.

Nice work, but still so much to do!!!

By: trakk

trakk — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:59:28 +0000

which reminds me, could anybody tell me what has happened to that leap motion device, it was supposed to be out by now,wasnt it?

By: cglaze

cglaze — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:31:34 +0000

One really cool application for this is audio mixing.
You could move tracks around and adjust attributes of the sound.

Up/Down = adjust frequency
Right/Left = panning
Front back = amplitude

Tweak your mixes visually and then get spaced out watching it all automated when you are done.

By: graham caldwell

graham caldwell — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:25:04 +0000

I thought ,mitibushi was working on a tv that didnt use glasses.

By: Rob B

Rob B — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:13:23 +0000

Isn’t this just head-tracked stereoscopic display? Something thats been around, Im guessing at least 20 years?
Confused as the the innovation implied here.

By: Someone

Someone — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:42:22 +0000

“Beyond what you thought was possible”, starts the clip. Stopped it at that point, since that’s for sure beyond what I think is polite — which might in turn, I guess, be beyond what the makers of the clip themselves thought possible.

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:36:03 +0000

Wow. Imagine the applications with music mixing and production? Move an object up or down to adjust frequency range….left or right = panning…. Forward or backwards = amplitude… Watch the mix before your eyes….bravo!

By: TomInWales

TomInWales — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:34:32 +0000

Drool.

By: Thomas Jensen

Thomas Jensen — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:26:28 +0000

Now THAT is cool!