New 3D Holograph chip

[mike123abc]

Wall Street Journal reporting: http://online.wsj.com/articles/new-...752938?mod=WSJ_hppMIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

If the WSJ link does not work the company has a reprint on their site: http://www.ostendo.com/press/wsj.php

During a recent test reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Ostendo showed a working prototype: a set of six chips laid together that beamed a 3-D image of green dice spinning in the air. The image and motion appeared consistent, irrespective of the position of the viewer.

According to Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is working on 3-D displays for MIT's Media Lab, Ostendo's advantage and the key to its 3-D capability is its resolution. The Retina display on Apple Inc.'s iPhone, for example, has about 300 dots per inch, Ostendo's chips are at about 5,000 dots per inch.

Ostendo, which says it has several opportunities with major handset manufacturers, expects the first 2-D projector unit to be in the hands of consumers before the summer of 2015. With a lens attached, it will be less than 0.5 cubic centimeters, roughly the size of the camera in the iPhone. It also expects to begin manufacturing the second version of the chip, with 3-D capability, in the second half of 2015. The cost to the consumer should be about $30 a chip, Ostendo estimates.

Now this is very interesting technology if they can really project 3D images without glasses into the air. The WSJ had a small video clip http://stream.wsj.com/story/world-stream/SS-2-44156/SS-2-546759/?mod=wsj_streaming_world-stream of it.

 

[dangue]

The real question is: how well will it hold up in real world situations? Will it be visible outdoors or reasonably lit indoor environments? Until that's true, it'll likely just be a gimmick. But get that nailed down and add in cameras to track user movements and you have a whole new way to interact with devices. A la minority report or iron man.

 

[TheForce]

3D Holography has been around for some time. Been demoed at CES for several years. The units are mostly sold as kiosks for product advertising displays. They are rather low tech projections on one way mirrors built up in the shape of a pyramid. You can see all sides top and bottom of the projected object. It is only visible from outside the pyramid so it is not a holodeck a la Star Trek concept.

I have some video around here that looks far superior than that link. I'll track it down and upload it for you.

 

[mike123abc]

This technology does not use mirrors for 3D.

 

[navychop]

Just smoke?


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