Magic Leap, A new tech for 3-D imagery

[Lazy8s]

*Obligatory "I want this" inserted.

A startup is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery.

Availability: 1-3 years

Of course, I bring him as near as possible; I want to see how real he looks up close. Now he’s about 30 inches from my eyeballs and, though I’ve made him pocket-sized, looks about as authentic as a monster could—he seems to have rough skin, muscular limbs, and deep-set beady eyes. I extend my hand to give him a base to walk on, and I swear I feel a tingling in my palm in expectation of his little feet pressing into it. When, a split second later, my brain remembers that this is just an impressively convincing 3-D image displayed in the real space in front of me, all I can do is grin.

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Source: MIT Technology Review

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Do think you movie theaters will adopt this first before making it into our living rooms?

[Lazy8s]

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Do think you movie theaters will adopt this first before making it into our living rooms?

Well, I'm still a kid at heart I guess.

Regarding the device, movie theaters and living rooms...I may be off, but I'm picturing 3D without the glasses, and with much more depth.

Someday anyway.

[koralis]

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Do think you movie theaters will adopt this first before making it into our living rooms?

The next morning, though, he awoke with an idea: why bother with the painstaking steps needed to send a hologram out into a room for multiple people to see at once? Why not, instead, essentially make a hologram that only you see, doing it in a way that is natural for the eyes and brain to perceive, unlike stereoscopic 3-D?

Images tailored to a single individual aren't really good for movie theatres.