IDEO Labs has developed a completely new technology that looks like a viable replacement for Mechdyne’s cave. Built with $600,000 of projector equipment and a 10x10x10 white room, it creates a fully immersive environment for a user equipped with nothing but a featherweight headset.
The markers are illuminated by IR LED floodlights located on the perimeter of the room, and IR-sensitive cameras use those positions to determine the precise location of each eye within the room. From those positions, stereo images for each projector are calculated and rendered on the fly, and the result is absolutely amazing.
See the demonstration video after the break.
via IDEO Labs.
$600,000 in just projectors? Or is that the price of the whole display system (projectors, computers, glasses, software) from Eon? If just projectors, that means that there are two of the highest end HD projectors possible per wall in a 6 wall cube ($50,000 per projector)… which could be the case I guess but seems like overkill.
Here’s eon’s page about the iCube: http://www.eonreality.com/products_icube.html
The glasses are (wireless?) shutter LCD glasses.