RESEARCH: Interactive 360º Light Field Display

School of Cinematic Arts professor Mark Bolas, along with Andrew Jones, Paul Debevec from ICT, Ian McDowall (Fakespace Labs), and Hideshi Yamada (Sony), are awarded "Best Emerging Technology" at Siggraph 2007 for their display that provides a stereoscopic image that can viewed as a person walks around the display.
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[@thextopher]

Scientists have realized that the future will be more futuristic than they previously thought. Seriously, this is awesome.

[@Marvinfh3]

This vid was totaly mindblowing!!!!!!! Thank you guys for posting it.

[@scarletdove]

nobody commented on this?!?! does anybody realize what one could do with this technology? that was wicked sweet! keep going on that! can't wait to see what you do with this!

[@typeerk]

Nice... the last demo was great!

[@linxsr]

awesome , good work guys

[@hhn2002]

FANTASTIC STUFF! BRAVO!

[@phoenixnyt]

this is INCREDIBLE!

[@DarthBasser]

Impresive! Most impresive!

[@ZetaReticuli87]

really cool it's reality now and not just in the movies =)

[@gaztard1]

And Sony has had it since 2007. And they said it could be used on all systems. So the PS haters will have to buy a sony playstation product to use the technology. Love that even more.

[@gen0syde]

thats one of the coolest things i have seen in a long time!

[@zenwithamit]

Mind Blowing... This is going to be future display technology in multiplex where the screen can be put in middle and people around this......

[@VincentLammers]

Pure Pixilated Awesomeness! Can't wait to see things move! Cheers!

[@srednivashtar4762]

Absolutely stunning. I'm clear on most of it save the end with the running man. Is he running live? like in another corner of the room with a camera on him, because it can't be a 2d film recording, right? And I still don't understand why the image isn't in color, though you get a blue image of that head. How far we've come since Ed Muybridge's running men and horses! Kudos to you all.

[@siddharthsingh1284]

WOW!! Awesome!! My congratulations to the team...

[@Juantotish]

i think this tech is amazing, i think it could be be used by new generation console, or for a concert, congratulations

[@Aflammox]

This is awesome.

[@Mixze]

Great work. I'm extreamly impressed.

[@Tzulander]

Mind: Blown. Well, not blown, but awed. This is pretty cool.

[@Aflammox]

This is awesome

[@pedebevec]

Nope - not fake and we're very happy that our display can give the effect of occlusion. It's a light field display which shows independent views to every direction, not a volumetric display which lights up points in a volume. Our SIGGRAPH 2007 paper is online explaining it.

[@Clownfish55]

Last 15 sek were cool! When not seen in real life, these things need to animate to fascinate!

[@XYZRobZombie]

How in God's green EARTH am I the first to comment on this!? this is hella freaking COOL!

[@DreadKnight666]

The future is bright =)

[@pedebevec]

We only do motion tracking to produce vertical parallax; the horizontal parallax is totally autostereoscopic and the image looks very solid, 3D, and lag-free.

[@din373]

PQP!!!! Agora, akelas imagens tamanho real de pessoas andando e conversando com outros a distancia, coisa q so era visto em filmes como star wars i outros futuristas pode ser feito na realidade!!!! muiiiito bom isso!!!

[@gaztard1]

What he said

[@DaryoushNekooi]

amazing, this is a holographic image to a certain extent. Obviously its not a true hologram, the image can only be projected on the spinning mirror, but this gets us 1 step closer! Really well done! I would love more information and your ideas for the future. PM me

[@Jasper2428]

Improbable for a 3D game, this goes to the museums for the epic displays generated

[@weareham3068]

that is just incredible!!!!

[@TechyBen]

This is great. It was done in 2007 though. I hope it is developed for future home use. I could even see it working on a portable device (although it would be a cube shape, and not the usual candybar/tablet we are use to).

[@masbhr]

Amazing work keep going

[@oscarfan1234]

Awesome!!!

[@skinneris]

Awesome!

[@fuzzix]

Absolutely amazing.

[@pedebevec]

Cool that you noticed this! It's honest-to-goodness video of the 3D display in operation, but since the display blinks the image out every mirror rotation there is no motion blur in the 3D image while there _is_ motion blur in the rest of the scene including the bar, so it does look odd when you see them together in the video. In person, everything works (although the display does look slightly blinky.)

[@gaztard1]

It's only the video of it why it flickers. Like when u try to film displays and TVs before. they flickered when you watch the video back also. 4320 to 5760 fps. Crazy

[@JohnTheRipper2]

just... wow! very impressive!

[@dondixon4206]

Great effect. It looks so real like it's floating in space that I can even touch..... BZzzzzzz! ...... GOOD LORD! MY HAND IS SLICED OFF!

[@gaztard1]

That's funny as shit. Now we no who and why they put glass around it. 🚨🚫🤣😂🥁

[@PlatinumG]

incredible!

[@Erixofwse]

that's seriously cool :P

[@LukeMona]

dang, thats awesome!!

[@rekojproductions]

112 384 views and no comment!? anyway, this is awesome!

[@neofuture]

umm thats pretty f**king amazing well done guys

[@xaijinsama]

That's pretty cool.

[@ForgtheFrog]

Impressive & futuristic. :-)

[@trueintellect]

Holy amazing!!

[@djancak]

i'm so glad to see this

[@BartDooper]

Very cool and interesting clever by motion created 3D hyperboloid shaped mirror design.

[@ramsicle]

It is very awesome, but there are still blind areas identified. If you look closer to the spinning mirror you see a cone like shape where I believe images can not be displayed. I believe this is referred to as dead zones. How ever still very impressive work, well done.

[@necrophobicbcn]

Nice job :)

[@HoofCreaition]

Now at last we can have the displays that have been featured in movies and tv series for years! 'Do not touch the screen' stays pretty actual, I guess.

[@JoeyIngles]

Love it, Love it, Love it...but couldn't we at least us an HD camera to film it?

[@gaztard1]

Especially since its 4300 to 5700 fps processing it.

[@514kia]

Mr nader i told you they had already made one

[@tilmancommes]

@Nathanhi89 yes! just about as good as with a jet engine. powerful force feedback :D

[@gaztard1]

Porn to the extreme!!!

[@kamalmichael]

amazing

[@Roshkin]

I want one of those.

[@karakenio]

This is great! 100k views & 0 comment!? (next time put some music)

[@wimmawithA]

That is so so awesome!

[@pedebevec]

Totally. That's why it's in Lexan which would be bulletproof if it were just a bit thicker.

[@H4Z4RD5]

That is amazing

[@CSRedRat]

Best 3D! You are great! What news?

[@ovasov]

how awesome

[@pcred567]

Just purely out of curiosity, what is projecting the light onto the mirror? It probably has the fastest refresh rate of anything... ever.

[@gaztard1]

4320 to 5760 fps

[@MrAchronos]

@NinjaMotion No probably for showing the layout of a buildings inside or maybe what a person looks like . Nothing crazy just for showing images to an entry team so they can be better prepared. I don't think it could be used as a weapon.

[@DarthTyranous]

WOW Its excelent!!!!!

[@TheRealMetalsoul]

Wow!!

[@CirculationTV]

perfect, brilliant!!!

[@hennytube]

WOW.. super cool closest i gave seen till now that convinces through 360 walk round ..clear image.. Simi- holografic. perhaps pre cursos to being able to keep metal particels in same position in a vacume. and spun sith elctro magnets.. as reflectos.

[@physicsming]

so cool~~~~~

[@DakLgrf]

That is the coolest thing ever!!!

[@kingofqwerty]

Very cool idea!

[@lordtaw]

That is due to the cameras frame rate and the "frame rate" of the display. What you see here is real, its technology is similar to those persistence of vision displays. The mirrors rotational axis is a circle. They break the circle up into pieces (lets say 1 degree) so for each degree the image is rendered for that angle and projected the instant the mirror is in the proper position. Mirror speed and projection frame rate must be in perfect sync. Laser-vector projection is very similar as well.

[@krakatoa16]

Wow!

[@deerwoodproductions]

Holy shit. This is awesome.

[@hest0n]

Parece totalmente sacado de un comic de ciencia ficción. Muy impresionante que pueda hasta representar imagenes reales en movimiento, ahora solo falta que se pueda reproducir a tiempo real!

[@jesseralston]

@UHYVE - Or any of the sequences of darth talking to sidious! But they have a tie fighter so I'm ok with it.

[@Cl0udgard3n]

@Thepoliticman did you watch this to the end?

[@FractalLounge]

Just one Question. Would my own optical visual 'eyeballs' refresh rate need to be the same as the camera used here to see this hologram?

[@ricochet188]

@Momo5775 It's real, the distortions are because of the camera's shutter speed (refresh rate?) and the shape of the mirror spinning if you view it at it's corners there is some distortion... it's tough to explain just take my word for it.

[@FirestoneX]

Ok.. This is a few years old now.... When can I have one??

[@Sugargauge]

fantastic!

[@LisergicoRojo]

they are working on it man, they threw in some tie-fighters though, give them some credit. they ARE nerds

[@djminervaITA]

WOW!

[@CesarSSb]

Awesome.

[@D34ADCH]

Can you actually interact with it

[@gaztard1]

It's a hologram and like the guy above said porn will be extreme. But awesome.

[@pedebevec]

We have to render our 3D objects within a few inches of the display surface, but there's at least a continuous 5" cylinder of volume we can render into successfully.

[@Inbetrieb]

@Momo5775 i saw it live at VFX (european siggraph) in Stuttgart 2008...with this T-Fighter thing. It´s real.

[@gaztard1]

Yes it is. They first showed it in 2007. Now all the non playstation people will have to buy a sony product for there systems. Sony said it would also work with xbox scarlett and switch 2. The the playstation haters if they want this product they will have to buy a sony product.😎

[@ThrowFence]

are you saying, this is real, and no CG motion tracking?

[@gaztard1]

Real Deal and they showed the Holographic demo in 2007. And sony says it could work on all the new systems coming out. Switch 2, xbox scarlett. The PS haters will have to get a sony product if they want to use it. Funny. Sony setting up for the big KO to the other systems. And with the new external memory cards they just developed for the PS5. Yes. Just like the original playstation memory cards but 1, 2, 3 TB memory cards.

[@Inbetrieb]

@Momo5775 i saw it life at VFX (european siggraph) in Stuttgart 2008...with this T-Fighter thing. It´s real.

[@alexander2310703806]

This is Via motion Tracking ?

[@Strike4602]

OMG first???

[@JDster4ever]

@FirestoneX well..; you can make one if you had a mirror strapped to a realy fast moter

[@pedebevec]

It makes some noise but it's not too annoying and could be reduced with some better bearings.

[@ClintRobison]

Awesome

[@Purjostuff]

Cool! :D

[@NetteFraulein]

awesome

[@SurfersGlory]

@nbkoziar88 for all you know the sound of the motor running spinning the mirror could be loud and/or annoying, so he muted it.

[@Sunshrine2]

Goddamn great IDEA!!

[@Caoderrick]

OMG~~~~ ！！！ the futher we imaged getting closer!!

[@kcunit333]

@blackpunkemo UUUU GENIUS :)

[@savantskie]

That is very cool

[@nna7yk]

Instead of running man, I think, the following message would have made this hologram-video top-famous on the Tube, am I right? Pr. Leia. "Help me Obi Wan Kanobi, You're my only hope! "