I’ve got a friend who came up with a way to capture and display 3D images all the way around a sphere. Not just a relatively narrow ’sweet spot’ like all the 3D out there is today, but 3D wherever you look. It’s called Omnidirectional 3D, and it’s only available from Micoy Corporation. (In the interests of transparency, I own some stock in the company.) It is mind-blowing.
Omni-3D can be tough to fully comprehend, much less embrace, but once you’ve seen how the content you’re watching can be outside the projection surface of the dome, on the projection surface, and within the dome, the potential for its use sparks the imagination. The number of possible applications of Omni-3D is huge – from pure entertainment to architectural walk-throughs to therapy for the mobility-impaired to first person shooter games to, well, let your creativity run wild.
The first open-to-the-public (as in people who aren’t investors, potential investors, or potential content producers) demo of Micoy Omni-3D will be at the International Planetarium Society Show in Chicago this weekend. The technology can utilize a full dome theater, and the future of planetariums may be in showing non-traditional content.
If you’re in the Chicago area this Saturday or Sunday, and would like to see what this is all about, please use the contact email address on the Micoy.com website to request a demo. You won’t be disappointed.
biblinski says:
“I’ve got a friend who came up with a way to capture and display 3D images all the way around a sphere.”
After a couple re-readings of that, I see I wasn’t as clear as I should have been. It should be “I’ve got a friend who came up with a way to capture and display 3D images from the center point of the sphere all around it.” Even that doesn’t quite say it. Imagine standing inside a full dome. Everywhere you look in the dome shows you stereoscopic images. Front, back, sides, up, down. All in 3D. You are immersed in the experience. The walls of the dome disappear, and you are inside the presentation, with objects seeming to loom right next to you. It is not the 3D you’ve already seen…
25 June 2008, 11:07 pm