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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

3D even I can see...

I have often wondered how holography would affect cinema and future Directors of Holography. It's a completely different filmmaking process. 2D to 3D or Film to Digital is a minor transition in comparison. And it really doesn't seem so far in the future anymore.
 
Screen technology using the same principle (screen structure) already exists in a few different versions and 3D effect varies from almost unusable to pretty cool. Journalist who wrote the article is mistaken by suggesting that it could be used for cinema screens.

The principle of using a special screen structure to display different imagery requires viewer's fixed distance to screen and as such is not suitable for cinemas. It can be used for handheld devices and computers.

Multi view 3D and head tracking is also not a new idea, so it would be interesting to see what exactly did Apple do now to take the existing technology and concepts and patent it as own.
 
This is not new.

Toshiba has a prototype TV using this very technology and it is a mixed bag. I wasn't impressed. Color rendition is crappy, on par with Anaglyph quality, alas, without blue and red halos but just as narrow in scope. And the minute you change your angle and distance from the screen, sometimes even move your head sideways, the effect disappears completely. No doubt this technology can only get better, but in truth, current 3D technology is far more mature than this, and if they manage to build glasses, whether passive or active, that are lighter, more comfortable and without dark coatings, then things would get much better. It surprises me a lot that the biggest thing most viewers have against 3D is the glasses and how these huge companies involved keep trying to outdo each other with bigger, better displays and not a single one of them has made a real effort in trying to revolutionize the glasses, which is a far easier endeavor than improving a display.
 
swear this is old,

They had other patents to go with this, mostly to do with manipulating things in a 3D zone rather then holographic, it extended to the idea of being holographic but was more an integration of between being glass-less and having glasses with a much more intuitive and less headache (can't quite remember how) like experience,

If i'm not wrong the patent described displaying a cube and manipulating it in what appeared to be a 3D environment...

Given with Apple, they patent tons of stuff, never sure when you'll see it though. Be cool though if they had it and were just sitting on it till they knew what to put it in or when to release it haha...
 
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