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Volume – The world’s first personal volumetric display

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Re: Volume – The world’s first personal volumetric display

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Post by glibgil »

hinkley wrote: post #19
glibgil wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two people can use two VR headsets

Right, but it's the same reason I got a RealD television instead of a shutter frame one. You're not gonna give a roomful of people (especially if they're children) shutter glasses. Too expensive by half. RealD glasses are easy to come by and when the dog eats a pair (or a couple, in my case) it's an inconvenience. Headsets are great when you're only entertaining yourself. Terrible when you have friends you're enterta…

Friends will hate you if you trying to entertain them with this shitty device. It looks awful

Re: Volume – The world’s first personal volumetric display

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Post by Animats »

The description is rather vague. It claims 2 million voxels and no moving parts. That's resolution of maybe 200 x 200 x 50; the depth dimension seems smaller than the others. Is is some optical system which projects on 50 plates (maybe less), or something like that? It looks like they're somehow optically remapping a projector to multiple planes at lower resolution.

There have been depth displays before - vibrating mirror devices (a mirror mounted on a subwoofer driver) and such. Today we have enough GPU power to drive a volumetric display, at least at the modest resolution of this device.

But it's awfully low-res. Once you get tired of the 3D effect, it's going to be painful.

Re: Volume – The world’s first personal volumetric display

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Post by Kenji »

diimdeep wrote: post #10

awful pacing in video, 70% of time is headlines 10% is something else, 20% actual device, and even that is cut in super small sequences. instant ADD

Not to mention that it should contain an epilepsy warning before it starts. The screen flashing and how it's done is very unprofessional.

Re: Volume – The world’s first personal volumetric display

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Post by hinkley »

glibgil wrote: post #21
hinkley wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, but it's the same reason I got a RealD television instead of a shutter frame one. You're not gonna give a roomful of people (especially if they're children) shutter glasses. Too expensive by half. RealD glasses are easy to come by and when the dog eats a pair (or a couple, in my case) it's an inconvenience. Headsets are great when you're only entertaining yourself. Terrible when you have friends you're enterta…

Friends will hate you if you trying to entertain them with this shitty device. It looks awful

That's fair, but just because version 1 sucks doesn't mean you won't still end up teasing your friends who don't own version 3.

It could work, even if this prototype doesn't.

Re: Volume – The world’s first personal volumetric display

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Post by rosalinekarr »

Animats wrote: post #24

The description is rather vague. It claims 2 million voxels and no moving parts. That's resolution of maybe 200 x 200 x 50; the depth dimension seems smaller than the others. Is is some optical system which projects on 50 plates (maybe less), or something like that? It looks like they're somehow optically remapping a projector to multiple planes at lower resolution. There have been depth displays before - vibrating m…

The resolution does seem super low, but I think they're trying to target the low budget market where it might make more sense. Their "How It Works" page says this:

> Volumetric displays have been around in research labs and a few small companies for decades. But they have always been extremely expensive — a staggering $100,000 per unit.

> Volume is nearly 100x less expensive than the systems that have come before.

Of course, their lowest price point is still $999, so I still wouldn't call that cheap.

Re: Volume – The world’s first personal volumetric display

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Post by achr2 »

Animats wrote: post #24

The description is rather vague. It claims 2 million voxels and no moving parts. That's resolution of maybe 200 x 200 x 50; the depth dimension seems smaller than the others. Is is some optical system which projects on 50 plates (maybe less), or something like that? It looks like they're somehow optically remapping a projector to multiple planes at lower resolution. There have been depth displays before - vibrating m…

I think it only has 10 plates.

I like the 'More 3D than that Tupac hologram' claim - it's true, but it uses basically the same effect, just with 10 layers.

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