<!--QuoteBegin--Talesin+Dec 22 2003, 05:02 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Talesin @ Dec 22 2003, 05:02 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Blackmage, it could work depending on how they set it up, and if they managed to somehow alter the air to act as an angled reflector (combination of ionization and polarized light, maybe?) then it would be invisible from behind.
Don't forget, one of these of a similar nature was on display at E3. At first as a keyboard, then as a display when it proved it wouldn't short out and die after a day of use.
And it isn't 3D. It's just a floating 2D screen. So it's still a flat display plane.. just floaty. :b
Personally, I can't wait for these to come out to the consumer market. Hopefully they'll be able to be scan-line interleaved along with the use of shutter glasses, at least as a holdover until someone figures out how to do an actual holographic display. This is just a big step in the right direction. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> ionization? that cant be pretty. considering the 'cleanest' way to ionize air would be to make it plasma ... what was the ionization temperature of oxygen again?
oh well ... maybe im just being a pessimist/cynic. i, for one, hope that that's it, because playing with that thing for a screen would be ... *drools*
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Don't forget, one of these of a similar nature was on display at E3. At first as a keyboard, then as a display when it proved it wouldn't short out and die after a day of use.
And it isn't 3D. It's just a floating 2D screen. So it's still a flat display plane.. just floaty. :b
Personally, I can't wait for these to come out to the consumer market. Hopefully they'll be able to be scan-line interleaved along with the use of shutter glasses, at least as a holdover until someone figures out how to do an actual holographic display. This is just a big step in the right direction. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
ionization? that cant be pretty. considering the 'cleanest' way to ionize air would be to make it plasma ... what was the ionization temperature of oxygen again?
oh well ... maybe im just being a pessimist/cynic. i, for one, hope that that's it, because playing with that thing for a screen would be ... *drools*