On 10/25/2012 11:57 PM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Planning to do a design for a cyborg "lab" and figured that the best way
> to handle a display (this is lower tech than you see in say, Deus Ex:
> Human Revolution), is to take a page from... damn, I wish I had
> bookmarked the thing. There was information on a medical equipment site,
> which showed a new system that displayed images, in 3D, over the device,
> in color. It projected them out of the top of the thing, somehow. The
> closest I can find are:
>
> http://pinktentacle.com/2006/02/aist-develops-3d-image-projector/
>
> Which is very similar, but mono-chrome. And:
>
>
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-11/new-holographic-device-can-record-and-display-3-d-holograms-near-real-time
>
>
> which isn't even close, but definitely neat. In any case, since the tech
> is technically "almost here", its well within allowable ranges for the
> lab. lol The problem is that I had planned to use a spherical camera to
> generate images of various "bionic/cyborg" parts. Well.. I am not at all
> interested in paying $499 for a very good cyborg, never mind a lot of
> money for stuff that is ever shittier. I found a terminator head, which
> was free, which I can probably get an eye out of, and maybe some other
> bits, but I am looking for feasible, and free, other parts. Hands, feet,
> legs, a heart maybe, what ever I can find, so I can make images which I
> can switch out, as needed, in the final result. Figured, POVRay would be
> easiest to render the results, sort of X-Rayish. Any clues where I can
> find myself some parts?

Hmm. OK, I guess it is the AIST device:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9af-aX-UDDM&feature=fvwp
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/true-3d-display-created-using-a-laser-and-50000-dots-per-second-20111114/

Though, the version shown on the medical site seemed more "solid", maybe 
a slight improved version, over what they already did in the videos.

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