Holy Crap! Sci-Fi TV Technology is Apparently Here!

Really. Admittedly you can’t go to Beast Buy and pick up a replacement for your current TV or PC monitor yet, but they’re looking to get the things into production.

You know, one college professor supposedly said upon hearing about the invention of television that if Darwin’s Theory of evolution were correct, then humanity would be reduced to little more than a pair of eyes and a set of reproductive organs. I’m thinking that this might be the thing to do it!

Very cool.
I saw a clip on t.v. with some sort of 3D display floating in the air or…well something, kind of looked like a blue, bent, floating squareish pipe.

It reminded me exactly of the little Holo recorder thingies we saw in Star Wars those few times. (Like the one: ‘Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, your my only hope’ one)

Anyway, some guy working on this project was wearing special gloves and was able to spin it around by moving his hands in mid air.

Dang it, they list the price at $18,600. And an really wanted one of those too.

Although I look forward to the eventual spread of this technology to the masses (of which I am a card-carrying member) I suspect that 3-D television will add nothing to the enjoyment of a classic old movie.

–SSgtBaloo

Women are so doomed if this catches on…
kidding

We are one step closer to holodecks. Come on scientist types, I wan’t my holodeck.

Help me, Obi Wan, you’re my only hope.

:frowning:

I missed that Teelo already did that.

I have no idea why the punctuation fairy decided my post needed that extra apostrophe. It wasn’t my fault, really. :smiley:

Time to sell the house!

It looks somewhat bogus to me;

So they are (or so they claim) projecting an image onto a curtain of ‘modified’ air… in what way can ordinary air be ‘modified’ in order to make it reflective?

They chill it and add water vapor.

So it doubles as an air conditioner?

An air conditioner removes water from air. So you would actually need more air conditioning in a room that has one of these.

I know that. It was just a little joke. Apparently very little.

Not according to the blurb:

Oh I want one!

I just viewed the videos and the image itself doesn’t look at all doctored to me, so I’ll reserve judgment for the moment. The ‘interactive’ demo looked more like a scripted simulation of interactivity to me, but that’s a fairly trivial point.

Maybe it ionises the air? How long would the ionised air take to recombine?

Exactly. Who needs a house when you can live in a 3-D virtual mansion (decorated to taste)?

Now, if only I had a house to sell!