Epson spread the news today about a high-resolution autostereoscopic display for mobiles. It has 384 x 256 3D-pixels for each eye with a screen width of only 2,57 inches - not too bad. We’ve seen a lot of these displays already (see Tanja’s post about Newsight), but this one is - according to Epson - much sharper and more vivid. It uses the usual technology for autostereoscopic displays, but has additional lenticular lenses in front of the display:
That means that the next iPhone might boast 3D-images and that we can play 3D-games on the next PSP? Coooool, ey.
Via macnews.de (in their article, they say the displays are 1024×768, but you can only see 384×256 in 3D according to Epson’s information in the article linked above)
It seems like not even our blog is safe from iPhone related news. But one has to admit, it’s an interesting platform for developers with quite some innovative interface features packed into it. For us it’s exciting to see that one developer (Artoolworks) picked up one of our topics of interests: Augmented Reality. It seems that the processor and the built in graphics power allow interpretation of fiducials. Unfortunately the iPhone right now doesn’t sport a video processing capability, so the developed application only works with up to 12 frames per second. But hey, we are already waiting for iPhone 4G anyways, right?
When I first saw the ‘augmented sculpture’ at the ARS Electronica in 2007, I did the same thing as nearly everyone else did, who went in to this small room there. I immediately went out again and photographed the name of the artist from the board outside (Pablo Valbuena) with my mobile phone. Then I went in again and stayed there for a long long time.
Actually projections onto a 3D object in real space are nothing new at all, but we all know that holding a crayon doesn‘t make one necessary an artist. And Pablo is one of these people who are able to create an impressive piece of art just out of few minimalistic elements. The way he puts the virtual geometry on his physical sculpture is just amazing. The hypnotising sound environment and the perfectly choreographed virtual object transformation gave me the impression of being in a kind of a ‘Tron’ World.
I am happy that Pablo continued his work and hope to see some new versions of the ‘augmented sculpture’ in real ’space-time’ soon again!
We all know it from the movies and science fiction stories. But it seems that holographic projections are not longer future talk anymore, they have been around for a while and their quality increases constantly. The Musion Eyeliner 3D Holographic Projection System is one of the popular systems, and it certainly does a lot of faking (well, the 3D is more like a catch phrase, because they only use one projector and single lens cameras to film the content but place it in a 3-dimensional set of “foils”), but the effect is still stunning, and on their showreel website they have very nice reference clips to look at.
I love it when design and science meet and produce wonderful new forms of visual language. In this case, the idea was to visualize magnetic waves in space according to the sound. The result is a wonderful short film called Magnetic Movie by Semiconductor.
Just before the weekend and today (Monday) I had a little spare time and so I experimented a little. Just clicking around in vvvv and loading a few 3d models… the results weren’t worth mentioning but then I was a little distracted and instead of making a nice feedback-glow, I created a recursion that converted my 3d model into a fractal. Fractals are a little hobby of mine and I find it quite funny that I seem to run into them once in a while just by accident. Maybe someone out there will find them interesting as well.
Klick on more to view more or goto my Flickr Page to view all images.
