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Multivox: Volumetric Display

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Re: Multivox: Volumetric Display

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Post by lifty »

Would be great having one of these hooked up to an LLM agent so it can be somehow “embodied”. Like a Siri + volumetric display + speaker. Waiting for a company to build this.

Re: Multivox: Volumetric Display

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Post by raphman »

btbuildem wrote: post #20

Before I watched the video, my brain ran ahead and I imagined it would be one of those led "fans", except also rotating around it's base. It might be harder to sync the two rotations, but you'd have much less mass in motion that way. The solid state ones are cool! The real mystery there is how the pixel volume was manufactured -- it doesn't seem like something easily DIY'd

There are companies that laser-'etch' 3D images into glass. I guess it's not that hard to find one that accepts a list of xyz coordinates.

Re: Multivox: Volumetric Display

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Post by yboris »

thesz wrote: post #3

These displays use rotating mechanisms. This ones does not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrfBjRp61iY Volumetric display in the video above uses static projector whose pixels light up etchings inside solid glass.

Thank you for sharing - it's a brilliant piece of tech. I posted this earlier but it didn't catch on with upvoting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137203

Re: Multivox: Volumetric Display

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Post by andblac »

qoez wrote: post #7

Never knew this was possible. I hope some huge company with lots of resources jumps on this and drives up the resolution and price.

Check out Voxon [1]. From the specs and youtube videos it seems like it's working on the same principle (rotating LED screen). Fun fact, it was co-founded by none other than Ken Silverman (the creator of Build engine) [2]. They've been pushing commercialization of this technology for years now.

[1] https://www.voxon.co/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Silverman

Re: Multivox: Volumetric Display

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Post by eps »

ceejayoz wrote: post #25
limbicsystem wrote: post #14

This guy's entire output is incredible (from alien tellitubbies onwards). Go moose! https://mastodon.social/@ancientjames

My fav: a two-by-two LEGO block that can run and show Doom. https://www.hackster.io/news/james-brown-s-tiny-lego-brick-c...

An earlier iteration of the same block is imo more impressive in its creativity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wBrOV2FJM8&t=720 - such an unexpected and yet completely natural extension of the brick set.

Re: Multivox: Volumetric Display

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Post by wowczarek »

thesz wrote: post #3

These displays use rotating mechanisms. This ones does not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrfBjRp61iY Volumetric display in the video above uses static projector whose pixels light up etchings inside solid glass.

Whatever the outcome, when someone sets up an optical table, I'm sold.
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