Interactive 3D Viewing Box Lets You Browse and Control Virtual Worlds Without Glasses
Posted by admin in Electronics, Hi-tech on 30. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
pCubee The not-so-poor man’s alternative to 3D University of British Columbia People who hate wearing 3-D glasses may like a new approach from a company called pCubee. A handheld cube-shaped device uses small LCD panels on all sides to create the illusion of playing with 3-D objects within a virtual cube, such as tiny cows [...]
Hubble 3D Review: The Ultimate Hubblegasm
Posted by admin in Space on 19. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
24-Hour Service Astronauts John Grunsfeld (left) and Andrew Feustel perform repairs on the Hubble telescope during one of many periods of darkness in the final seven-hour space walk. We do a lot of Hubble gawking here. Arguably NASA’s most enduring mission, the telescope has provided humans with the deepest possible look into the corners of [...]
How It Works: Upscaling 2-D Video to 3-D
Posted by admin in Concept, Hi-tech on 11. Mar, 2010 | 3 Comments
3-D TVs are finally going on sale–sans content. So some sets are claiming the ability to add a third dimension to your 2-D broadcasts Watch 2-D Home Movies of Yourself Watching 3-D TV…In 3-D! More than a year after the first consumer 3-D-ready HDTVs were demoed at CES, the next generation of sets are going [...]
Vuzix Wrap 920 3-D glasses promise big screen experience
Posted by admin in Electronics, Wearable electronics on 28. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Vuzix Wrap 920 glasses are compatible with many video devices to deliver a virtual cinema experience Can’t afford a big screen TV or projector but still want to experience that cinema feeling when watching a movie? The Vuzix Wrap 920 video eyewear is a sunglass-style display that delivers a virtual 67-inch screen as seen [...]
Flyfire: mini-helicopters create futuristic 3D display
Posted by admin in Design, Electronics, Robots on 24. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
The basis of most 3D systems is to "trick" our eyes into believing that an image shown on a flat screen has three dimensions, but what if you could throw away the screen entirely! It sounds simply too far-fetched and impossible to choreograph, but that’s exactly what researchers MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and Aerospace Robotics [...]
