Small games could even be played due to how interactive the 3D images could be made. Now with the Looking glass, creating 3D visuals is much easier when they are right in front of you, not being rendered by a 2D computer screen but a 3D Volumetric Display. This is also the closest we have come to recreating many of science fictions many wonders that have been demonstrated over the years including the famous Star Wars scene. And despite all the wondrous things possible with VR and AR, they are ultimately isolating experiences, and somewhat disconnecting. This requires no headsets or extra peripherals and many people can look at a 3D image from many viewing angles at the same time without loss of image quality. We will be focusing on the Looking Glass for this presentation as there are more in the field examples than the other two Volumetric Display providers.Īn entire biome existing on someone’s desk, simulated and displayed through this technology would make for an interesting paperweight, but why is it a good use of VR/AR? It is a good use of AR as it can use light to create a 3D image with depth that can be interacted with. Albeit at a much smaller scale due to the nature of the particle manipulations happening: These solutions are far less financially friendly but still visually impressive.Īnd finally, researchers from Brigham Young University have also created a freestanding version that people can physically interfere with the image and have it appear like the image has been placed on the tip of their finger. Then there's are alternatives like a company named Voxon Photonics that has a working version that uses a Volumetric Display that can fairly accurately display a 3D image with the use of a Display and occasionally an enclosure around the display area. Imagine a microcosm living inside this small display that can create vivid 3D images in real space, almost like magic, but the magic is actually science. The display’s optics decode the video signal into a full-color, super stereoscopic 3D scene. How it does this is 45 views are encoded into a video signal that is sent to the Looking Glass.
Here is an example video showing the technology in action:Īs of now the Looking Glass display has a clear visual acuity. There is a company named the Looking Glass Factory and they created the world’s first desktop holographic display and the best part its affordably priced. In other terms what one person would see would differ from what another sees from a different angle on the same object.
Now there is a small difference between Volumetric Displays and the standard preconception of Holograms, as Volumetric Displays physically recreate an image in 3D space while Hologram technology creates 3D images by sending light through a 2D screen that contains a diffraction grating which means that the image has the illusion of depth but not actually so as the angle of viewing is limited. It always starts with the same story of “do you remember the hologram from Star Wars?” This concept of Holograms has been what feels like the next step forward in the world of augmented reality as it requires no headsets or goggles and what one person sees everyone will also be able to see but from different angles.
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