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post #1 of 20
8/31/07 at 4:59pm
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/r...aphic-display/

The video is stunning. This shit needs to be commercially viable and avaiable within ten years, please.
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post #2 of 20
8/31/07 at 5:05pm
Next step: Holographic Porn. Fabfunk would be most pleased.
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post #3 of 20
8/31/07 at 5:24pm
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI
Next step: Holographic Porn. Fabfunk would be most pleased.
Hey. Porn tends to be the trailblazers on a lot of newer technologies lately. Weird, but true.
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post #4 of 20
8/31/07 at 5:48pm
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Originally Posted by donde
Hey. Porn tends to be the trailblazers on a lot of newer technologies lately. Weird, but true.
I don't if you're being serious or not Donde, but I'd love to hear more.
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post #5 of 20
8/31/07 at 6:16pm
Jesus Christ. I am officially blown away. When it went 'interactive'....tingles, man. Ta for the heads-up.
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post #6 of 20
8/31/07 at 6:24pm
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Originally Posted by Phil Connors
Jesus Christ. I am officially blown away. When it went 'interactive'....tingles, man. Ta for the heads-up.
I was hoping I wasn't the only one completely blown away by this. The "running man" was just incredible.

It looks like the competing technology of suspending light sensitive materials in a semi-permeable matrix, then using laser beams to trigger the "pixels", is dead in the water at this point. This just blows it away.
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post #7 of 20
8/31/07 at 6:34pm
Very cool stuff. Thanks for the link...
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post #8 of 20
8/31/07 at 9:25pm
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
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post #9 of 20
8/31/07 at 9:26pm
Holy crap. I don't even know what to say about that. Well, perhaps the fear of having a 6' tall spinning mirror of death in my living room. Thanks for posting the link!
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post #10 of 20
8/31/07 at 9:35pm
Totally amazing. and dangerous, from the looks of it.
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post #11 of 20
8/31/07 at 9:40pm
Fantastic? We're 5 years from the fucking Death Star. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
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post #12 of 20
8/31/07 at 9:58pm
Many Bothans died to bring us this youtube video...
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post #13 of 20
8/31/07 at 10:24pm
It's cool and all but wouldn't the mechanical wear and tear of a constant high speed spinning mirror prohibit it from any sort of long term use?
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post #14 of 20
9/1/07 at 1:20am
that's really cool. It's also one of those things that theoretically actually seems pretty simple and makes you wonder why no one thought of it before.

As for using it to watch porn, I just imagined some moron thinking, "Awesome! I can pretend to bang that holographic girl" and then sticking his dick in the spinning mirror of doom. So if they released it commercially, they'd better make it really difficult to open that box it's in.
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post #15 of 20
9/2/07 at 11:07pm
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Originally Posted by horrid
It's cool and all but wouldn't the mechanical wear and tear of a constant high speed spinning mirror prohibit it from any sort of long term use?
Nah. With proper balancing, that mechanism could last ages
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post #16 of 20
10/18/07 at 3:07pm
Brilliant principle. I'm not sure what the commercial applications would be though. Most games and movies depend upon the user being locked into a specific point-of-view.

Tetris would be cool.
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post #17 of 20
10/18/07 at 3:09pm
Yes, all my boyhood fantasies will come true if I can get my own Jem!
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post #18 of 20
10/18/07 at 3:29pm
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Fantastic? We're 5 years from the fucking Death Star. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
5 years? Shit, Cheney probably already has a Death Star somewhere.
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post #19 of 20
10/18/07 at 4:03pm
That's no moon....



I can't wait until they're using these instead of fucking Powerpoint. Suddenly presentations of all kinds, from college projects to Akbar-led military briefings, have become things to look forward to.
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post #20 of 20
10/18/07 at 4:16pm
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Originally Posted by Ratty
5 years? Shit, Cheney probably already has a Death Star somewhere.
Well if the first one is gonna blow up you might as well have another....
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