The Best Emerging Technology prize at Siggraph 2007 has recently been awarded to ICT Research.
Researchers at the USC (University of Southern California) Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) along with their collaborators have devised a reproducible, low-cost 3D display system that requires no special glasses, and is viewable from all angles by multiple users. This system allows computer generated 3D objects to be seen in new ways, and will impact the future of interactive systems.
Details of the Rendering for an Interactive 360º Light Field Display can be found in a pre-print of a paper to be published in the ACM SIGGRAPH conference proceedings from the project page at
http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/3DDisplay/
There is also a video news item by CBS at
http://www.cbs2.com/video/?id=36497@kcbs.dayport.com
The display consists of a high-speed video projector, a spinning mirror covered by a holographic diffuser, and FPGA circuitry to decode specially rendered DVI video signals. The display uses a standard programmable graphics card to render over 5,000 images per second of interactive 3D graphics, projecting 360-degree views with 1.25 degree separation up to 20 updates per second.
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