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It is now Week 11, the 2nd week of student presentations. Of this week, the product/prototype i thought was cool, was Cybershoes.
It is now Week 11, the 2nd week of student presentations. Of this week, the product/prototype i thought was cool, was Cybershoes.
The next project we're looking at are Volumetric Displays that Edward covered this week. More specifically he chose to go into the Looking Glass, which according to live video and prototype images, which I think looks pretty dope. I definitely see the potential in this program, especially since I'm super into AR implementation with phones. Using AR capabilities on your phone has always been cool to me, and I think there is a lot of real implementations you can use with a screen and AR (I talk a lot about using it for construction) and the looking glass gives me ideas regarding it.
Now, reading into Edward's presentation for the Looking Glass (which was his main point of discussion when speaking of Volumetric Displays) you see a box-like glass-like object that is displaying an image, almost as if in 3D space as when you change your viewing angle on it, it will display in real-ish time how the object in the Looking Glass will appear at that exact angle. They appear just as you'd think Holograms would (which Edward actually talked about in his website and with an example of Star Wars).
Here is an amazing example of the Looking Glass showing a 3D
Above is again, an AMAZING look at the Looking Glass. An extremely fluid look at an object in a 3D space if you changed it's angle constantly. You can also see the lighting effects adjust to your angle! I believe this is because of the technology that Edward spoke of that the Looking Glass implements. 45 different views are encoded that I THINK(?) the Looking Glass displays to the user? I'm not sure, but maybe this is also a safe assumption that you can only see 45 degrees of a 3D image with the Looking Glass. Perhaps it would take too many resources to display an object more than 45 degrees.
Here you can see the Normal sized Looking Glass selling for $600 dollars versus a $3000 dollar Large Looking Glass. It's easy to imagine someone using a Standard Looking Glass as a 3D modeler at their desk for commercial use. Looking into more of Edward's presentation and Looking Glass Factory's main website, the several uses of a Looking Glass already has 'surveying and mapping' and 'medical evaluation'. This is exactly the kind of uses I love hearing about for AR. Medical Technology is growing so fast. I can imagine a machine using ultrasound to map out the outside and inside of an organ, and have someone view it on a Looking Glass!
All in all, I think there's some promise with this technology. Something I can imagine in my head is this being used with a companion program with your iPad. You can map out an empty lot with whatever you desire (maybe mapping a new building or parking lot), importing the created model that has all the items you have mapped and then viewing it later on your Looking Glass. It speaks future to me and I love it. I hope more products like Looking Glass appear more and become more of a norm for 3D modelers especially. Looking at some videos, the interaction part of it looks iffy still, but moving the item physically (or you) and seeing a model in different view without fussing about on the computer too much seems like a nice quality of life item for modelers to have, making things more efficient too.
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