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,-

Display Changer changes the display resolution, runs a program, then restores the original settings. It can also change the resolution permanently and rearrange the monitors in a multiple-monitor setup. This is useful for games and home theater computers. I originally wrote this application for my children because they had programs that required 640×480 with 256 colors or 800×600 with 32-bit color or some other combination. I didn’t expect my (then) 4-year-old to be able to change Windows display settings, so I wrote this program to do it automatically.

Now, it does much more.

Display Changer changes your desktop width, height, color depth, and refresh rate (frequency) temporarily or permanently (via command line switches). Display Changer can run another application in a specific display resolution and return to the previous resolution when the application finishes. Command line switches let you alter only certain settings and choose the best refresh rate (or a specific one).

Display Changer « 12noon.

Using fog to project on, they project 3D images and allow you to use standard 2 finger rotation and zoom actions, as well as project a keyboard.

InAVate – Interactive images float in space.

Visual Planet | Multi-touch specification.

Motama’s key technology – called Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) – provides a ground-breaking new software solution for networked multimedia systems, spanning from embedded and mobile devices, to PCs, to large-scale computing clusters. NMM is available as commercial or Open Source version.

Our middleware forms the basis of our own products and is licensed to world leaders in the areas of home entertainment, networking, mobility, and content processing and distribution.

via Motama GmbH.

Extramon lets you use a second computer as a second monitor, giving you a dual-monitor computer. In fact, both of your computers become dual-monitor computers. And you can operate them both from a single keyboard and mouse.

via Extramon – Dual Monitor Software.

MaxiVista turns any spare Desktop, Laptop or Netbook PC into a second monitor for your primary computer. No extra multi monitor hardware is required. Simply extend program windows across multiple screens as if it were one big monitor. Increase your productivity by using a multiple monitor software.

via Multi Monitor – Dual Monitor – KVM switch.

This works by installing virtual VGA drivers on all the PC’s involved.

LPMT is a little projection-mapping tool developed mainly for use in our own office.

It is coded in C++ using OpenFrameworks. It’s based on a simple quad warping paradigm, and, though rather simple, can be used to achieve a complex and professional projection-mapping set-up

via LPMT – little projection mapping tool.

To do this there are a few options:

Pixelwarp Edgeblend and Geometric Correction Software.

Sol7 Immersaview

Nvidia NVKeystone but it’s been discontinued since june 2 2009 🙁

VPT 5.1 video projection tool is free and very capable, but I haven’t been able to take a vga / dvi / hdmi output as a live input into it yet so it needs videos in a video directory to throw its layers on allthough this howto is a launching point.

MXWendler FXServer was designed for theatres and stages.

Summary:

1. LED Backlit TVs only have LEDs on the edges, while Full LED TVs have LEDs spread out all over the screen
2. Full LED TVs have more LEDs than LED Backlit TVs
3. Full LED TVs have a more even lighting than LED Backlit TVs
4. Full LED TVs can attain better contrast than LED Backlit TVs
5. Full LED TVs can be slightly thicker than LED Backlit TVs

Difference Between LED Backlit and Full LED TV | Difference Between | LED Backlit vs Full LED TV.

NB Backlit LED = Edge LED

The 46-inch LCD screen has a resolution of 1920×1080 as well as touch screen with full ten finger recognition. The type of panel used here is a VA panel and will mostly be implemented for commercial applications.

CeBIT 2011: Samsung Shows Ambient Light Powered Display > Display > Techtree.com.

Making its first debut into the retail marketplace, STRATACACHE’s PrimaSee™ is a translucent digital display that showcases high-definition, dynamic video advertisements embedded within a glass panel. These see-through promotional videos correspond with products visible in the backdrop to convey point-of-purchase brand messages. Using an embedded media player, content can easily be updated based on current promotions.

via PrimaSee.

This isn’t so easy to do. There are a few different options:

1) The software route

Open Source VVVV

vvvv is a graphical programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.

C-nario

C-nario’s state of the art seamless projection application breaks down the barriers of traditional wall casting and provides endless possibilities for multiple, high definition displays projection on any shape, any size, 360 degrees surface. Now you can enjoy seamless projection with digital signage added values.

Sol7

Sol7 corrects imagery for projecting:
* onto non-planar screen shapes such as curved screen displays
* from unusual angles
* a seamless image from multiple projectors
* any combination of the above to achieve an immersive visual display

Sol7 is a versatile software tool that can be used to:
* align real-time content onto curved and non-planar screens
* align movies onto curved and non-planar screens
* edge blend multiple projectors
* align and edge blend multi-projector displays
* align and edge blend stereoscopic displays
* align and edge blend curved screen displays
* align unique display systems

Dataton Watchout

This doesn’t just meld the displays in all kinds of funny angles, it also supports loads of different feeds: live video, file kinds, different sound files, etc.

Scalable Display

Scalable Display Technologies makes trailblazing software used to calibrate multiple projector digital displays. Our auto-calibration system brings simplicity, reliability and brilliant high-resolution to displays across many industries and applications.

We help partners in a wide variety of markets enable Scalable auto-calibration in their products for cost-effective, eye-catching results.

2. The hardware route

The Axon Media Server

Barco / Folsom BlendPRO

Mersive Sol Harmony

oshiba will offer a 12-inch model and a 20-inch model. They’ll cost around ¥120,000 (US$1,430) and ¥240,000 respectively. Toshiba didn’t announce launch or pricing plans for markets outside of Japan.

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Behind this lens screen is a custom-developed LCD (liquid crystal display) panel. Each screen has 8.29 million pixels — four times the number of pixels in a conventional “full HD” television — organized into groups of nine pixels of each color. The nine lenses split light from each bank of pixels and send it to nine points in front of the TV

If the viewer sits in one of these sweet spots they get the 3D illusion.

The nine spots should enable several family members to watch a 3D image at the same time.

The set-up means that despite the large number of pixels in the screen, the resulting picture seen in each of the nine spots is equivalent to a 720p high-definition image, said Toshiba.

via Toshiba to launch no-glasses 3D TV this year in Japan – toshiba, consumer electronics, CEATEC – Good Gear Guide.

These “E-Sense” films developed by Senseg and Toshiba can be placed anywhere, including on a touchscreen and by charging the area the finger is on differently, you can create different sensations, such as wood, stone, unevenness, etc. This is called electrotactile feedback.

Electrotactile Arrays for Texture and Pressure Feedback During Robotic Teleoperation | Hizook.

This thing basically uses a line scanner which rotates quickly enough to give the illusion of a 360o viewable 3d image

Sony 360-Degree Autostereoscopic Display Prototype « THE FIRE WIRE.

This thing is USB powered and fed, so you don’t need to add a graphics card. It runs at 800×600, so it has a good pixel density for a screen that size.

Having more than one monitor is undoubtedly cool, but, if you play video games or watch movies, then you know that the gap between displays — formed by the casing that borders each monitor — can really take you out of what you’re watching, as there’s an inch or two of nothing between the pictures.

Thought up by design firm Witid out of Beijing, China, this monitor eliminates that unsightly gap between two displays by extending the screens all the way to the edges. “But DVICE,” you cry, “isn’t that just a widescreen?” Why yes, but an extra wide one. Also, the second half of the monitor can be swung around the back of the unit, so two people on opposite sides of the display can view images from one computer — kind of like a cubicle buddy system.

The monitor is still just a concept at this time, and may stay that way if it tries to use traditional LCD technology, which might have some shielding issues without a proper enclosure.

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