Interactive 360-Degree Light Field

By Chungaiz | August 15th, 2007 | Mobile Technology, Flickr, Trend

I’m so excited!! Finally our Star Wars technology dreams are being realised:

An Interactive 360-Degree Light Field Display

(Or hologram, to normal people)

Sig07 - Hologram

This display renders the light field of an object - with correct geometric, accommodation and vergence cues in a horizontal plane - by rendering and projecting imagery at 5,000 frames per second onto a spinning anisotropic reflector. Motion-tracked vertical parallax is then employed to allow for unrestricted 3D movement with correct geometric cues.

The hologram looked correct from any point of view, which means that when you walk around the object or move your viewpoint up and down, you see the correct perspective for that object. Also the spinning mirror gives that semi-transparent property that Princess Leia had while being projected from R2D2.

NTT Do Co Mo over in Japan (of course) have pushed this technology themselves and made it mobile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgm-_EiA62M

They’re expecting it to be on public handsets in the next 3 years

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