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Project Number

191

Title

MEDIA³: the Virtual Hologram

Description

Liquid-crystal display cube for viewing virtual objects.

Contact

Masahiko Inami

Affiliation

The University of Tokyo

Address

Tachi Laboratory 

MEIP Faculty of Engineering 

7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku 

Tokyo 113, Japan

E-mail

minami@star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

WWW

Year

1997

Reference

SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings

Project Details

The MEDIA³ (MEDIA CUBE) is an object-oriented display consisting of liquid crystal displays arranged in the shape of a cubic body. 

 

In coordination with the motion of an operator's head and the MEDIA³ display, synthesized images of virtual objects (an insect, a tropical fish, artworks, a medical image, etc.) located inside the MEDIA³ appear on each LCD. The effect is exactly the opposite of that generated by an OMNIMAX or CAVE system - the operator sees an inner virtual world from the outside.

Sight

graphics workstation, LCD panels

Sound

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

1 - Innovation, Custom, Research

Intent

1 - Technology (innovation, machine)

Primary

102 - display (immer,aug,ster)

Secondary

201 - virtual environment

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 

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