VJing ala Minority Report?

[BrainStove]

For you Interactivist, Immersionist, Installationist & Enhanced Realitist... The Future doesn?t seems so far away Eh?

http://www.io2technology.com/

Drool baby, drool... But HEY clean up the driveled house when you finish OK. :up:

[asterix]

mrrrrl....

I...must have...
ultimate.. geek hardware...
...must fulfill all time geek fantasy...

agggh.....

[holly]

Who lives in Illinois? We must send a scout to spy on the first demo!

Friday, December 5, 2003, from 2PM to 5PM CST
The Green Room
Gorton Community Center
400 East Illinois Road
Lake Forest, IL, 60045, USA

Sign up on their website!
Report back to us!

[holly]

http://www.io2technology.com/tv-air2.jpg
http://www.io2technology.com/fish2.jpg

Hmmm. it looks a little flat, like the one from Finland that is an air curtain.
I don't see how it will do some of the claims on the website....?

Heliodisplay images can be viewed from both the front and the back. Two people sitting opposite each other can view exactly the same image or separate images while interacting with the images concurrently. Additionally, the Heliodisplay can provide discrete, private viewing by generating an image visible from one side and invisible from the other.

[spaceman]

another Roswell by-product...:alien:

[eXhale]

the image doesn't look very bright...

[fALk]

5 years ago I have seen a screen that was basically a glassplate with etched in holographic mirrors and a beamer underneath that was projecting onto the screen in 15 degrees. The mirrors took out the distortion of the picture and the resulting picture was extremly sharp and poped out (no 3d just 2d). At the time the mirrors where to big and could be seen but I guess this technology has evolved over time and they said that they wanted the mirrors to be as small as possible so they would not detract the viewer. So what you had was a "normal" glassplate with a computer resolution screen that could be seen from two sides. Total cost at the time 5000 DM (about 2500 euros) without the beamer - only the glassplate and the contruction underneath to put the beamer in. The glassplate was about 4 meters wide 3 meters high. Very impressive when seen live (so a photo resulted in just a glassplate to be seen :/)

[minimalniemand]

yet another fake, imho

[BrainStove]

Well ppl, TOMORROW is the DEMO show premier of this Buzz...

I know there are lotsa members in here from Chicago, I?m not sure how many of you are close to:
The Green Room
Gorton Community Center
400 East Illinois Road
Lake Forest, IL, 60045, USA

But come on, get a good snoop in there and report back for us :up:

[alangeering]

Between 1925 and 1946 the British inventor John Logi Baird developed working prototypes for the first:

Colour TV
Recorded TV (well before VHS)
3d sterioscopic TV (the viewer could watch 3d TV without special glasses)

The guy was a hero, many of the technologies we use today were first brought to life in his lab.

He was also fed up with the low resolution TV system and in the 1940's recommended moving to a 1000+ line TV standard, and demonstrated all the necessary technology to make it work. Only in the last few years ahve we seen HDTV and it's still not made an appearance where I live.

3d TV is nothing new.

[charlielangridge]

That's all well and good, but the site seems to claim that the device alters the air. Just for a little comparison, the total energy of the sun could only bend light about 2 degress, so unless this box of trix has some futuristic cold-fusion reactor built into it, i cant see how they can alter space to create a 3d image.

[elbows]

It doesnt claim to be able to create 3D, this is a 2D device. I have no idea how the stuff with air works either though, but I cant realy begin to speculate due to a lack of info on their site.

Even if it rocks they need a corporation to snap them up, their site makes it clear they dont have the resources to develop it into a mass-market item.

Ahhaarrr Ive just found out more info on it along with demo videos apparently (havent tried them yet):

http://nooface.net/articles/03/09/10/2154235.shtml


edit - hmm suspicious, the demos are gone, maybe they got paranoid that theyd given away too much, maybe it sucked. If I had some spare time right now, Id probably check online patent databases for more clues.

[elbows]

Well the best Ive managed so far is this wired article, which seems much more realistic.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60410,00.html

[BerzalonFlange]

the Fog Screen people look more impressive to me right now.

[PanicFilms]

I live in Chicago, and Lake Forest isn't that far but I can't make it. I can't leave work all day and I have a show at night that I have to be at by 7:30 to set up... maybe someone else can go??

[mandala]

ooooooh yeeeeaaaaahhhh. amaaaaaaaaazing!

i gotta get me 1 ov those - just after i rob a bank :P

[Anyone]

Originally posted by princess leah
help me obee wan, you're my only hope...

:stormtroopersmilee @(*_*)@

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