Playing Doom on a Holographic Display

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[–]magnora7[S] 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

This technology is amazing! I want to get one, they're only like $300 which seems crazy cheap given how cutting edge it is.

It can interface with Unity and Blender and even the Unreal engine. So there's already a few games out for it. They have a larger version too but it's really expensive and also requires crazy CPU power because it's rendering like 40 to 100 fullscreen viewpoints simultaneously.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Very cool indeed.

If I had money for fun as well as the time I'd be all into that. Maybe on the other side of this war (not likely short), I can chillax with tech toys again. And maybe they'll start writing better movies again.

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/s/whoadude

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

$300 to get one in December, I'm tempted: https://lookingglassfactory.com/product/portrait

[–]Tiwaking 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Back in the day people would try to look around the sides of their monitor in an ineffectual effort to look around corners and increase their field of view.
I wonder what they would say after seeing this!

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Seems he's arranged homographies, whereby the present pane is in front of a pane showing several potential panes the user would see after the next movement. Simultanious viewing of the present pane and a pane of the next movement offers this 3D homographic vision.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think the old versions worked like that, but the newer versions are lenticular displays. Basically when viewed at an angle, the lenticular lenses only allow one column of pixels to be visible. Then when you move, it changes the angle, showing different pixels to your eye because of the lenticular lenses.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I see - I hadn't realized that's what he is using.