Researchers develop a 360-degree holographic display

Researchers at USC have taken another step towards that holiest of sci-fi dreams: the 3D holographic display. Using a spinning mirror covered with a "holographic diffuser," a special DVI implementation, and a high-speed projector, the team's device can project a three-dimensional image that can be viewed from 360 degrees -- regardless of the viewer's height and distance.

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[MrMeter]

That...is fucking amazing :D

[iNeelesh]

Cortana please :P

This is pretty simple and yet so effective! :D

[187RailroadBull]

Must...have...it....ughh

[grouchypus]

@iNeelesh Simple?! my ass simple!

[grouchypus]

Orgasm- Just had 1

[JustSomeRandomNewb]

@captrob1516 I am studying physics, i know my dimensions ;) but still, i thought that all they did was display a 2d regular image on a rotating mirror, so you could view it from every side of the 'display' i only now notice that as the miror turns a certian amount, the image will be changed acordingly.

[captrob1516]

@captrob1516 correcting myself on the dimensions, a better description would be a "front and back" a "top and bottom" and a "side and side" make up 3 dimensions, length width and depth essentially

[captrob1516]

@JustSomeRandomNew movie "3D" is where it pops out at you. REAL 3-D, 3 dimensional, means the object has 3 dimensions. it has a front a back and a side. example, old school mario is 2D because the images were front and back nothing else. newer games are 3D because (even though its on a screen) the objects in them have a full 360 degree image. so basically point is, it has 3 dimensions,they have essentially created a 3-D image, this just isn't a TRUE SCI-FI-esque hologram.

[captrob1516]

@krusokat grab a mirror and a camera and make this happen then. they aren't using a camera and they are using a lot more than just a mirror lol.

[ShaggyThe64]

Only 6 six days after Christmas and I already know what im asking Santa for next year

[zillax22]

@JustSomeRandomNewb You're probably right but it might be a law of inifinites/halves (limits in calculus) here. Best example to explain is if a frog has to go 100 yds but with every hop he can only jump half the distance, will he get there? The answer is no because halving is infinite and will never reach 0. So with the mirrors (i'm guessing here) is that they spin so fast and there's so many of them that it seems like a true rounded image. 3d modeling uses polygons in the same way forvideogames

[SothhLartak]

I am going to build one of these. ;)