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 Nov 11 2003, 11:33 PM
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Traumatizing players since 1992  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220  |
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Nov 11 2003, 11:36 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 973 Joined: 3-October 03 Member No.: 5,677 |
DUDE!!! SWEET!!! *wants one badly and wants to play Metroid Prime on it now...*
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Nov 11 2003, 11:39 PM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
From what I understand some teenager at a tech school came up with this less than 2 months ago and now everyone and their sister wants to license the technology =)
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Nov 11 2003, 11:45 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Oooh, shiny.................
To provide some on-topicness: if they're this cheap, how good is the portability and reproduction quality? Could you use them as decoys? ~J |
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Nov 12 2003, 12:49 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
SR canon states "...high quality holographic imagery still illudes them..." but this was in the early 2050's so maybe the tech progressed. Heck, I'm still waiting for a viable lie detector in SR.
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Nov 12 2003, 02:11 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 44 Joined: 19-July 03 Member No.: 4,984 |
If you read this: http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134...tml?printable=1 it gives you an idea about how we may be far far ahead of Shadowrun tech when we reach the same time period. Of course, maybe not.
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Nov 12 2003, 02:14 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Mmm, Kurzweil.
On the other hand, it was once said we would be on Mars by now; we may very well end up behind SR in more than a few ways. Guess we'll have to find out the long way. ~J |
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Nov 12 2003, 04:55 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 348 Joined: 20-June 03 Member No.: 4,782 |
LMAO, you know how magnets mess with CRT screens? I suggest not using a fan next to one of these.
I wonder if the "screen" warps if you blow on it. :P |
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Nov 12 2003, 06:22 AM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
wind has no effect on it, it is NOT being projected onto a smoke wall or anything like that. you can stick your hand through it with no effects at all on the picture.
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Nov 12 2003, 06:27 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 596 Joined: 18-February 03 Member No.: 4,112 |
That is so cool.
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Nov 12 2003, 03:23 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 519 Joined: 27-August 02 From: Queensland Member No.: 3,180 |
The 1st Ed. SR book has a "High intensity veracity examiner" in the gear lists. I don't know why they excised it from later editions. |
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Nov 12 2003, 04:20 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 639 Joined: 22-April 02 Member No.: 2,638 |
Rather than fog or some sort of particulate being introduced to the air above the projector, the description of the Heliodisplay would seem to suggest a superior mirage - an image created by the refraction of light due to a temperature inversion.
Now, how he causes the temperature inversion, or how he is able to control it for more than a few inches above the display, is anybody's guess. |
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Nov 12 2003, 04:31 PM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
Well he seems to have controlled it quite well, he has a 42" working display completed :D
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Nov 12 2003, 04:38 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Let the record show that I want one.
~J |
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Nov 12 2003, 07:05 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 27-June 03 From: Past the Keeper, fourth plane on the left. Member No.: 4,820 |
I think I'll wait on this one. Guys at MIT and the like are working on making video holography viable. That'll be the one to watch, actual 3D images with display sizes measured in volume instead of area. The last I heard, MIT had created a display with a 150x75x75mm image. This post has been edited by Solkari: Nov 12 2003, 07:12 PM |
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Nov 12 2003, 07:42 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 511 Joined: 19-August 02 Member No.: 3,139 |
Reuthyeum? (SP)
This looks promising. Don't know if anyone's posted it here yet. I've been away for a bit.... |
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Nov 12 2003, 08:33 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
The advantage of this is that it's inexpensive and takes up fairly little space, not to mention the fact that it's compatible with current equipment. Your nice 3D display won't do much if all your video equipment is 2D.
~J |
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Nov 13 2003, 07:10 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 596 Joined: 18-February 03 Member No.: 4,112 |
But then if the technology is commercially viable, I'm sure you'd eventually see equipment and media to support it.
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Nov 13 2003, 02:37 PM
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Not Cameron Diaz Group: Retired Admins Posts: 472 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Newark, Delaware Member No.: 188 |
This is a good thread, guys, but try to tie it in with Shadowrun a bit more, eh? :)
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Nov 13 2003, 04:35 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
So how accurately would this have to reproduce 2D images in order to act as a decoy in Shadowrun?
~J |
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Nov 13 2003, 04:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 348 Joined: 20-June 03 Member No.: 4,782 |
Shadowrun Technology is based on Real-life technology. How does this not tie in with Shadowrun? |
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Nov 13 2003, 04:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 348 Joined: 20-June 03 Member No.: 4,782 |
This seems like an assumption. It changes the air (using temperature according to the site) and introduces light to that air to create the image. I don't see how wind or other air disturbances couldn't affect it. The only useful application I can see from one of these is a museum setting where you want hundreds of visitors to touch it each day, without having to repair and clean a solid touch screen. I can see one of these things being integrated into toilets and faucets too. Turn on the water and flush without having to make contact with germy knobs. Although this concept has been done before with light sensors. But a digital free floating FLUSH icon would be easy to find in the dark and would look cool. :P |
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Nov 13 2003, 05:01 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
On top of that, you could have all those silly Star Trek-type touch screens to do what you want done. Organizing would be so much simpler!
Oh, and, as an SR note: It says 3D holo still evades. What's to stop 2D holo like this? :D |
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Nov 13 2003, 05:08 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Exactly. That's why I reasked the question.
~J |
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Nov 13 2003, 05:26 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
Cool, I hope it's not a phony. And that the price tag drops as soon as it is mass-marketed.
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