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Colossal Holograms

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Re: Colossal Holograms

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Really nice tip: Click the little keylock on the left side of the address bar when on medium, go into site settings, under javascript block it and medium articles will now load as just pure easy to read text :)

For me it removes images when doing this. I'm only surprised they don't require JS to display text yet.

Unsure why the images don't load, better than nothing I suppose?

Re: Colossal Holograms

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Note that this "only" adds depth. It can't make anything appear to "come out of" the screen, the effect is more like a window. It's not like holograms in science fiction. It's still pretty impressive tho.

This looks like "coming out of the screen" to me: https://miro.medium.com/max/1200/1*-nm0AvcydVzyhgDFdh6V2g.gi... Do you mean the effect doesn't work with back to front motion? Like that pan can't start in the back and move forward?

Parent meant that it can't obscure the environment. E.g. you can't put your finger behind the cover of the compass in your image.

Re: Colossal Holograms

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Really nice tip: Click the little keylock on the left side of the address bar when on medium, go into site settings, under javascript block it and medium articles will now load as just pure easy to read text :)

I don't see this feature? FF 70.0.1

Admittedly I am a bit of an idiot here, I didn't see the fact the person was using Firefox, the way I described it is how it is done on Chromium browsers but I cannot find a way to do it natively in Firefox (aside from downloading the NoScript extension). Hope that helps...

Re: Colossal Holograms

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This seems too good to be true.

Note that this "only" adds depth. It can't make anything appear to "come out of" the screen, the effect is more like a window. It's not like holograms in science fiction. It's still pretty impressive tho.

You can create the illusion of things sticking out of a screen and if the screen is big enough the illusion is easier to maintain.

For a "low tech" example of such effects take a look at http://amasci.com/amateur/holohint.html and related content.

Re: Colossal Holograms

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The next version will use microservices where every single character on the page will be downloaded and rendered by a different web worker. Good for concurrency!

Plus, makes it easy to slap on a paywall for the vowels.

And an extra paywall for ligatures. That's the ultra-premium gourmet club.

Re: Colossal Holograms

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The camera motion makes it look like they're trying to hide something... like the effect only works horizontally, not vertically.

The looking Glass display is horizontal parallax only (HPO). HPO is a common information reduction method in the 3D display world. Most holographic stereograms, all rainbow holograms, and all 3D lenticulars are HPO. Occlusion, horizontal motion parallax and stereoscopic cues are preserved, which are our primary 3D cues. The loss of vertical parallax changes computation from an N squared to N problem. An interactive d…

Are the Looking Glass display real holograms with light interference patterns ? Or are they emitting different pixels in different view angles ?

Re: Colossal Holograms

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The video game Prey2 features similar technology also called LookingGlass. It has a fairly prominent role in the story line. I wonder if the naming is a coincidence or a nod.

> ...coincidence or a nod. That depends on the patent status. Without patent => nod; with patent => theft.

Patent or trademark?
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