Now a pioneering team led by RMIT University’s Distinguished Professor Min Gu has designed a nano-hologram that is simple to make, can be seen without 3D goggles and is 1000 times thinner than a human hair.

“Conventional computer-generated holograms are too big for electronic devices but our ultrathin hologram overcomes those size barriers,” Gu said.

“Our nano-hologram is also fabricated using a simple and fast direct laser writing system, which makes our design suitable for large-scale uses and mass manufacture.

“Integrating holography into everyday electronics would make screen size irrelevant – a pop-up 3D hologram can display a wealth of data that doesn’t neatly fit on a phone or watch.
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Dr Zengji Yue, who co-authored the paper with BIT’s Gaolei Xue, said: “The next stage for this research will be developing a rigid thin film that could be laid onto an LCD screen to enable 3D holographic display.

“This involves shrinking our nano-hologram’s pixel size, making it at least 10 times smaller.

“But beyond that, we are looking to create flexible and elastic thin films that could be used on a whole range of surfaces, opening up the horizons of holographic applications.”

Source: World’s thinnest hologram paves path to new 3D world – RMIT University

haptics for VR walls and other objects [CHI17 fullpaper]
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In this project, we explored how to add haptics to walls and other heavy objects in virtual reality. Our main idea is to prevent the user’s hands from penetrating virtual objects by means of electrical muscle stimulation (EMS). Figure 1a shows an example. As the shown user lifts a virtual cube, our system lets the user feel the weight and resistance of the cube. The heavier the cube and the harder the user presses the cube, the stronger a counterforce the system generates. Figure 1b illustrates how our system implements the physicality of the cube, i.e., by actuating the user’s opposing muscles with EMS.

Source: haptics for VR walls and other objects [CHI17 fullpaper] – pedro lopes research

This research aims at overcoming this limitation and realizes dynamic projection mapping in which dynamically-changing real-world and virtual visual information are completely merged in the level of human visual perception. This high-speed dynamic projection mapping requires a high-speed projector enabling high-frame-rate and low-latency projection. In order to meet this demand, we have developed a high-speed projector “DynaFlash” that can project 8-bit images up to 1,000fps with 3ms delay.In particular, as a challenging target for the dynamic projection mapping, we focus on a non-rigid surface. Sensing of non-rigid surface deformation is difficult to be achieved at high speed because it has high degrees-of-freedom and involves self-occlusions as well as external occlusions. Our newly proposed method overcomes this limitation. Our method can obtain the deformation robustly at 1,000 fps by using an originally proposed marker “Deformable Dot Cluster Marker”, even when the target causes large deformation and occlusions.

Source: Vision Architecture: High Speed Image Processing

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nodegoat is a web-based data management, network analysis & visualisation environment.Using nodegoat, you can create and manage any number of datasets by use of a graphic user interface. Your custom data model autoconfigures the backbone of notegoat’s core functionalities.Within nodegoat you are able to instantly analyse and visualise datasets. nodegoat allows you to enrich data with relational, geographical and temporal attributes. Therefore, the modes of analysis are inherently diachronic and ready-to-use for interactive maps and extensive trailblazing.

Source: nodegoat

Put your mobile devices on a table and turn them into the windows of a huge display.

Source: HuddleLamp – Spatially-Aware Mobile Displays for Ad-hoc Around-the-Table Collaboration

Source: Picopros | Pico Projector Reviews, Pico Projectors, Pico Projector News

Po-motion Interactive Floor and Wall Displays – Games – Projections.

Upload your spreadsheet, choose your chart type, axis and tweak your design, download your graph or chart as an svg or png. Easy!

RAW.

Now thin air can be a touchscreen. Yasuaki Monnai and his team at the University of Tokyo have created a virtual screen you can feel. Called HaptoMime, it uses reflective surfaces to create a holographic display.

via Ultrasound makes hologram keyboard touchy-feely – tech – 28 October 2014 – New Scientist.

PrintScreen is an enabling technology for digital fabrication of customized flexible displays using thin-film electroluminescence (TFEL). It enables inexpensive and rapid fabrication of highly customized displays in low volume, in a simple lab environment, print shop or even at home. We show how to print ultra-thin (120 um) segmented and passive matrix displays in greyscale or multi-color on a variety of deformable and rigid substrate materials

via PrintScreen: Digital Fabrication of Thin-Film Displays | Embodied Interaction.

Using the Epson Moverio glasses, Augmented reality projects the following features onto the lenses in 3D.

Airports
Navigation Aids
ADS-B traffic
Flight Plan route & waypoints
Airways
Geographic points of interest (cities, villages, visual navigation points)

Soon followed by:

Airspaces
Terrain elevation
Procedures
ILS approach cones
FLARM traffic (for glider)
Weather
Dynamic Data (NOTAM, TFRs)
Ground Phase stuff other than runways (taxiways, gates etc)
3D Terrain Avoidance
Obstacles

They plan to sell them for around $700,- which is very cheap for a fighter pilot helmet / Heads up display / HUD!

Aero Glass.

Sharp announces the development of the Free-Form Display, a device that can be shaped to meet a wide range of user needs thanks to the incorporation of IGZO technology and proprietary circuit design methods. Conventional displays are rectangular because they require a minimal width for the bezel in order to accommodate the drive circuit, called the gate driver, around the perimeter of the screen’s display area. With the Free-Form Display, the gate driver’s function is dispersed throughout the pixels on the display area. This allows the bezel to be shrunk considerably, and it gives the freedom to design the LCD to match whatever shape the display area of the screen needs to be.

via Sharp Develops Free-Form Display, Enables Vastly Greater Design Freedom for Displays | Press Releases | Sharp Global.

Welcome to our input lag database, designed to help you find the best HDTV or monitor for gaming.

via DisplayLag | Input Lag Database: Gaming HDTVs & Monitors.

metaio | home | Augmented Reality Products & Solutions.

This takes a DVB-C cable and streams it over your entire house, to all devices with much ease and low cost. Really nice, but unfortunately not CI+ certified.

Welcome to SiliconDust | SiliconDust – HDHomeRun®.

You can put these on your laptop monitor and still be able to read the screen in the sunshine

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As one way to utilize this flexibility, SEL have produced side-roll and top-roll OLED displays, with the display curving over the edge where a bezel would usually be.The prototypes on show were a 3.4-inch 960×540 pixel display with a resolution of 326 ppi, and a 5.4-inch 960×1280 pixel display with a 302 ppi resolution. They still provide the high color reproduction characteristic of OLED displays.

http://www.diginfo.tv/v/13-0084-d-en.php

This means that software can position buttons anywhere they like around the side of your mobile or tablet. The video in the link is very worth watching.

By projecting four images onto a prism you get a real 3d holographic feel. Using the leap motion to move around the object looks really good! http://robbietilton.com/blog/?p=1589

Which is ridiculously cheap. There is a link to an even cheaper WQHD monitor in the page too.

AnandTech – Nixeus Vue 27" : A $430 WQHD 2560×1440 S-IPS LED Monitor.

These guys have developed a screen which is projected on a bubble. The bubble is flexible and can be controlled using vibrations, allowing the membrane to be changed in transparency and roughness.

colloidaldisplay.

Beam me up Scotty: Life-size hologram-like telepods revolutionize videoconferencing | Human Media Lab :: Queen's University.

Edge Blending software allows you to connect multiple projectors so that they overlap and then set them up so that the output of each beamer is aligned and the brightness of the overlapping area is corrected so that the image looks seamless.

Quite a few of these packages only allow the output to be corrected in an openGL / DirectX environment.

Below is an overview of Edge Blenders that also allow the whole windows desktop to be projected over all the beamers.

Some of these can auto set up using a webcam.

Fly Elise NG Immersive Desktop costs EUR 69,- for non-commercial use, and EUR 150,- for commercial use.
These are guys in Eindhoven who built the software to power their garage built full motion flight simulator.

Vioso presenter Multi

Costs EUR 229,- / EUR 69,-

Warp Desktop

Allows 10 monitors per PC for GBP 330,-

Scalable Desktop

For up to 6 desktops.

Torsionsoft Torsionblend

Also allows projection mapping.

2 channels for CAD $799,-