Floating Video Displays

The_KiD · 19 May 2006 at 13:52

Wow - just wow!

Is this the future?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOSx7v87JCA

gord · 19 May 2006 at 13:57

Its awesome if its real..

I want one

then I can play Minority Report all day

Messiah Khan · 19 May 2006 at 13:59

Wow.. thats cool. Welcome to the future I say

DingleBerry · 19 May 2006 at 14:00

If it works how I think it does. Its just a cloud of water which is just about invisible but enough to refelect light from the projector. Which is why the image isn't very stable because the cloud can't be relied upon to be in the right place. I seam to rember reading about it somewhere

Aod · 19 May 2006 at 14:03

if it was water, how could the guy put his hand through it?

more like a cloud of particles, blown on air or something, which would also account for the instability

spirit · 19 May 2006 at 14:05

Aod said:
if it was water, how could the guy put his hand through it?

more like a cloud of particles, blown on air or something, which would also account for the instability

surely the more important bit would be that if he put his hand in it, and its blwon from the bottom why isnt the bit on above his hand distorted/cut out

anyhow thats well coool

personally id prefer the bendy screens, like in that film to mars or whatever.

DailyGeek · 19 May 2006 at 14:05

Aod said:
if it was water, how could the guy put his hand through it?

more like a cloud of particles, blown on air or something, which would also account for the instability

I've read about it somewhere too, a few years back

I think it was being developed by LG for shopping mall displays so people could walk through them.

Definately some kind of light reflective gas.

DingleBerry · 19 May 2006 at 14:06

Ever put your hand through steam....its a cloud of water (albeit warm water). The advantage of water is that you don't need to contain it and its pretty cheap. It might be something else but I don't see what difference putting his hand through would make. Its hardly poisonous :confused:

gord · 19 May 2006 at 14:31

DingleBerry said:
Ever put your hand through steam....its a cloud of water (albeit warm water). The advantage of water is that you don't need to contain it and its pretty cheap. It might be something else but I don't see what difference putting his hand through would make. Its hardly poisonous

The steam has to flow around the hand and will not instantly form on the other side of the finger, the finger dissipates the steam, thus his point was why is the image above his hand not completely screwed when he puts his hand in it.

Although saying that, it appears flawed in that the image, from the smart car bit is projected at an angle...

Radiation · 19 May 2006 at 14:49

Im still waiting for hover cars to become available, that's when i know future is here!

Mellownatts · 19 May 2006 at 14:58

Radiation said:
Im still waiting for hover cars to become available, that's when i know future is here!

Same, it just never seems to happen.

ChroniC · 19 May 2006 at 15:01

Radiation said:
Im still waiting for hover cars to become available, that's when i know future is here!

Id say thats more like the past, you can buy a hover car, and these tv's have been avaliable for years. There about 7 grand now or something

http://www.io2technology.com/technology/images

Radiation · 19 May 2006 at 15:10

Until we can all go down to our local car salesman and buy a hover car for around the same price as a normal one then the future is not here, im also thinking along the lines of propellerless and jetless propulsion.

fini · 19 May 2006 at 15:20

Allright. Now, a lot of people were confused by your explanation of just how the machine gets the lasers to display the image. What exactly is a laminar layer, for instance? How does it work? Can you elaborate?

Basically, we are creating a thermal differential within the air and as soon as you do that, the air goes through a process of rapid condensation. So what we’re doing is transforming the air in a very localised fashion.

So this is making use of the same phenomenon you see when airplanes leave contrails high up in the sky, then?

Exactly. That’s really as much as I can elaborate on this point. I will say though that it doesn’t put anything in the room that wasn’t already there and it doesn’t remove anything. It does what it does very locally.

link

omg can't wait until everyone uses them!

fini