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Offline Nemesis

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3d Screen only $40,000
« on: June 05, 2005, 10:18:01 am »
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"On a 2D screen, a protein molecule looks like tangled spaghetti. But when it appears in our machine, you begin to fully grasp its 3D structure," says Gregg Favalora of Actuality Systems, which is behind the $40,000 display.

As Favalora walks around his display, a 3D computer model of a protein molecule hovers inside its smoky white soccer-ball-sized sphere. At the click of a mouse, the molecule disappears and is replaced by images of two airliners on a collision course in simulated 3D airspace.

Favalora is showing off his Massachusetts-based company's new product, Perspecta 1.9. It's the first 3D display that lets users view 3D moving images by walking all the way around it, view from on top or below, or zoom in and out in real time. It was unveiled last week at the Society for Information Display's annual exhibition in Boston.
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Re: 3d Screen only $40,000
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2005, 01:49:04 pm »
I'm sure it will be in the bargin bin in six months.   ;D
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Re: 3d Screen only $40,000
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2005, 03:28:36 pm »
Oh, no, not at all!  I can see the utility for such a device, only I can't see the paying the cost.  If he could somehow make it affordable to most research (note, I said most, not just the few in some well greased places) people, he could conceivably make not only decent profit, but have contributed a boon to man.  He is right, it isn't impossible to imagine the three dimensionality of something on a two dimensional plane, but boy, is it ever hard!
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Re: 3d Screen only $40,000
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2005, 03:38:23 pm »
I was only making a joke based on the fast paced advancement in the computer world.  In the same fashion as most computer games are seemingly in the bargin bin after only six months.  Personally I would love to play games on a true 3D screen.
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Re: 3d Screen only $40,000
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2005, 04:46:27 pm »
Duh.  I must be stuck in prosaic mode today.

Boy imagine some of our coolest technologies or basic discoveries, like wireless Internet, broadband, photonic computing, DVDs, flash drives, etc. being obsolete because we've got better stuff!

Ah, now imagine if good old fashioned standby technology like rocket engines, the internal combustion engine, could be technologically upgraded drastically or made obsolete because we have better stuff...

... I'd snap up a BMW or Jaguar in the bargain bin for a few bucks!

But seriously, my opinion is that this guy really only has the display end to improve, as I think our programmers all over the world are up to the task of making software able to handle 3D conjurations!  There's got to be a better monitor than a "smoke filled globe".
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