September 15, 2003, 15:59
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Once again, reality catches up with science fiction
Making a video screen out of thin air
Monday, September 15, 2003 Posted: 11:10 AM EDT (1510 GMT)
SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- In a museum in Tampere, Finland, Ismo Rakkolainen's fog machine conjures up the Mona Lisa on an invisible sheet of water particles.
Thousands of miles away in Hermosa Beach, California, a graduate student passes his hand through an image of a DNA strand produced -- apparently out of thin air -- by a modified video projector.
The two inventions represent the latest front in advanced computer displays -- eliminating the screen altogether.
While unlikely to replace the desktop computer monitor, so-called walk-through displays could eventually be put to use in product showrooms, museums, and military training facilities.
"This is something that people have been dreaming about for a long time," said Chad Dyner, 29, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and inventor of Heliodisplay, one of the prototype display systems. "Ever since the movie 'Star Wars' came out and there was a distress call from Princess Leia," -- generated in thin air by the robot R2D2 -- "people all over the world have been wanting one of these."
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read full article here,
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/0...eut/index.html
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September 15, 2003, 16:09
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Im not sure what Baruk Khazad is , but if they speak Judeo-Dwarvish, that would be "blessed are the dwarves" - lord of the mark
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September 15, 2003, 16:12
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yeah, except it probably costs way too much.
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G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"
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September 15, 2003, 16:13
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I read the article... forgive me, but how exactly does it differ from a hologram? It's still a machine that conjures a picture in air above it, isn't it?
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September 15, 2003, 16:16
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forgive me, but how exactly does it differ from a hologram?
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It doesn't 
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Im not sure what Baruk Khazad is , but if they speak Judeo-Dwarvish, that would be "blessed are the dwarves" - lord of the mark
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September 15, 2003, 17:52
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Cool.
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September 15, 2003, 17:57
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Cool.
Are lightsabers on their way?
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September 15, 2003, 18:25
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but you still can't have sex with the projections.
Now when the day you can have sex with these projections and feel like the real thing. Well then you can kiss reality goodbye.
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September 15, 2003, 18:55
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Wow, so you can use a screen of fog instead of a projection sheet. Amazing!.
How exactly does this change anything, except by lowering the image quality and making the process more complicated?
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September 15, 2003, 18:59
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well teachers won't have to pull that screen down when showing a movie to their students  .
And then the schools can say they need billions of dollars to educate their students properly. 
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September 16, 2003, 02:58
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When are they going to give us polarised photons? Or what do they use in those holo-decks in ST?
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September 16, 2003, 06:24
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Damn! 3D porn! 
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September 16, 2003, 07:42
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September 16, 2003, 07:55
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It's not 3 dimensional. That would be impossible using this method... it would require synchronized projectors all around the fog, and the fog would have to be in a very exact form for it to represent a 3D image.
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September 16, 2003, 08:05
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I can hardly wait to see 20 mile advertisements for Preperation H stretched accross the sky. 
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September 16, 2003, 20:05
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Originally posted by Dissident
Now when the day you can have sex with these projections and feel like the real thing. Well then you can kiss reality goodbye.
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This is why we have to get crackin' on AI - we need to create Ian M. Banks, "Culture" to take care of all us hedonists.
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September 16, 2003, 22:08
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Originally posted by Osweld
It's not 3 dimensional. That would be impossible using this method... it would require synchronized projectors all around the fog, and the fog would have to be in a very exact form for it to represent a 3D image.
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No, why? You don't need a ring of lasers for holography either.
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September 17, 2003, 08:12
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Well, this isn't holography, is it?
EDIT: And holograms aren't three dimensional, anyways. They're illusions.
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