Volumetric 3D display

The High-Tech comes to our life day-be-day. Now it is new and inbelievable, but a couple of years later it will be must-have item in every home. Why noy? ;)

During the CEATEC trade fair in Tokyo, Sony unveiled a volumetric 3D display. The cylindrical glass body with a diameter of 13 centimeters and 27 centimeters in height are placed small LED corresponding to the presentation of the image. LED-s are controlled by 24 bits - probably at 8 bits per color - and reach a resolution of 96 × 128 image points. On the surface, everything looks like a modest, but the image of the presented video clips makes a decent impression.
The manufacturer has not provided information on the principles of operation of the display, but it can be assumed that followed was the rotating cylinder form with its embedded LED-RGB. LED grid that is rotated so fast that it is imperceptible to the human eye. When the market changes the brightness of LEDs, and thus presented an image. Volumetric display with a similar operating principle has been developed by students in the research project Felix3D.

Walking around a cylindrical screen, we can see from all the currently presented image of the object - and this without any special glasses three-dimensional. Sony uses ready-made 3D images or create 3D presentation of images showing objects from different perspectives. During this fair events for volumetric display was presented, inter alia, the form of comics, head, brain and models of cars. As explained in an interview, acting as President of Sony Ryoji Chubachi, shown in the display is only a prototype, whose areas of application are still completely open. He gave an example of application in science and research, and Sony Japan's website refers to medical applications, technology, Digital Signage, online stores, virtual three-dimensional animal and the image - and of course the three-dimensional television.

Despite all the prospect of using this type of equipment in a 3D television seems rather remote. Much closer to achieving market maturity - probably in less than one year - a three-dimensional television based on the traditional Sony LCD technology and the concept of glasses snapshot. The prototype of the TV was also showcased at the CEATEC.