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An Iron Man Like 3D Hologram Controlled by Leap Motion and Three.js
- ianfernz 14y agoThis is one of the coolest things I have seen. I hope that this is the direction that user interfaces goes in down the road, it is much more exciting than 2D.
- ComputerGuru 14y ago... and much less efficient/productive.
- michaelbuckbee 14y agoWell, like anything different tasks will call for different UI's. After looking at the OPs demo I could immediately see this being used with Radiology Imaging systems.
- zizee 14y agoBut it is 2D.
- cdk 14y agoThis is pretty awesome. This is the first time I've seen something being projected into a prism to generate this hologram effect. Is this a new trend?
- geon 14y agoIt is a few years old, and it's not a hologram (not 3d).
- scoot 14y agoIt looks like it's being reflected off an inverted four-sided hollow (perspex?) pyramid, rather than projected into a prism, but still a neat idea; sort of like the inverse of the (formerly Microsoft) Polycom 360 degree conference camera.[1] I'm curious what it looks like viewed from one of the edges - I can't picture it being seamless? [1] http://www.polycom.com/products-services/products-for-microsoft/lync-optimized/cx5000-unified-conference-station.html http://www.polycom.com/products-services/products-for-micros...
- evan_ 14y agoHe moves the camera to another side across the edge in the video- it's far from seamless, it's exactly as you would expect- two images in perspective.
- jasonkolb 14y agoAs cool as this is, it's not really a hologram. This is an example of Pepper's Ghost, which is also what's used to project images into your field of vision using Google Glass.
- sp332 14y agoI was confused for a second because Pepper Potts is the love interest in Iron Man. But you meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost (which was also the technique used for Tupac's re-animation at Coachella last year).
- solistice 14y agoI loved how the public went crazy over a technology "invented" in 1873 and how people where like "finally holograms".
- brador 14y agoWhat are the requirements to define something as a hologram?
- fresnel100 14y agoHolography entails the diffractive reconstruction of the wavefront corresponding to a 3-D scene, and optical holograms are generated using the coherent interference of light scattered from a 3-D scene with that from a second reference beam. Holography, by definition, necessitates scene reconstruction via diffraction. In the case of an electro-holographic display, diffraction patterns corresponding to 3-D scenes are computed and displayed on suitable light modulators to achieve wavefront reconstruction. This technology is still in its infancy, so you probably won't see anything truly holographic in the marketplace for some number of years. As cool as this demonstration is, it's using a 19th-century technique -- "Pepper's Ghost" -- and cannot correctly be called holographic. Here's work out of MIT depicting the true state-of-the-art in real-time electroholography: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/video-holography-0124.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/video-holography-0124.htm....
- achy 14y agoThis is solely a 2D image reflected in glass. The control via finger is novel, but there is no volumetric or holographic effect whatsoever.
- uptown 14y agoThat's not the actual real Earth either. We totally got him!
- angryasian 14y agoWhile its cool, all this has been done with kinekt. https://github.com/doug/depthjs https://github.com/doug/depthjs
- brador 14y agoThe following is a fake video of a hologram gaming console. I hope it will inspire someone to make it real: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaaHcH9nQmI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaaHcH9nQmI
- amikahmad 14y agothis is amazing. the future of the interface indeed. forget iron man this is more like star wars. but more seriously, i'm very interested to see what comes next with this in terms of interaction. i'm not sure how long lived the LEAP device will be, but this sort of holographic interaction technology certainly has a big future!
- ajacksified 14y agoThe device itself is pretty solid, and there are several other companies working on 3D motion detection (such as Intel[1], who has the lofty aim of replacing single webcams with dual webcams.) I think this definitely has a shot at augmenting computer interaction. [1] http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/article/325946/secured-perc-productbrief-327943-001us.pdf http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/article/325946...
- subb 14y agoSo seeing this, I'm wondering, could we get a "continuous" 3d projection with a cone-like shape instead of 4 planes?
- steven2012 14y agoI actually laughed out loud at how incredibly clever and awesome that is. This is such a great idea and kudos to the person who designed this!