iCube – 3D Immersion Technology lawnmower man move over
Posted on April 20, 2009 by Marty
IDEO Labs posted a video of WATG’s Wimberly Labs’ EON Reality’s Immersive 3D room.
They call it an “iCube” (of course), but don’t let that put you off…
The cave(iCube)is comprised of three white walls and a floor, all about 10 x 10 in size. Onto each surface is projected a high-resolution, stereoscopic image. A viewer stands in the room wearing polarized 3D glasses – like you might use in a 3D movie – with small markers that stick out a bit from the frames.
The markers are illuminated by IR LED floodlights located on the perimeter of the room, and IR-sensitive cameras use those positions to determine the precise location of each eye within the room. From those positions, stereo images for each projector are calculated and rendered on the fly, and the result is absolutely amazing.
Just one shot of Resident Evil 5, and quite possibly a spare pair of shorts will be needed once you see the video…
I can just imagine a good few years down the road, the games room in anyones house, will no longer have pool tables, Darts, 2 LCD screens hooked up to a couple of 360′s, or even pinball machines, but it will all be replaced with this star trek, holodeck looking room which you can go in stick on a pair of glasses and start going nuts, too bad I’ll have a zimmer frame by then, or maybe not?
