Actuality Systems made the Perspecta Display. This machine allowed 3-D visualizations to be shown without the use of goggles. It accomplished this by first taking a 3-D model and breaking it down into 2-D still images, each from a slightly different angle. These 2-D images were then projected on a display spinning at 720 revolutions per second. I called it a blender. Others called it a crystal ball. Can you tell I never was a fan of this company? I followed the company because it was part of my day job, and I always hoped something bigger and better would come from them. Anyway, today I received the following email from them.
As a former customer, partner, or supporter of Actuality- real 360 degree 3D display, we want to provide you with a personal update on the status of the firm.
In December 2009 Actuality reached an agreement with optical product development firm Optics For Hire. OFH, which employs Actuality’s founder Gregg Favalora, acquired the following:
• The remaining inventory of Perspecta Spatial 3-D display systems (100 megapixel, floating-image, walk around, no eyewear, interactive, video systems)
• The entire IP portfolio including 19 patents
• IP and patent applications related to improved guidance and visualization of soft tissue surgical procedures, and operating room data demonstrating breakthroughs in low dose rate prostate brachytherapy
Given the value in these 3-D display and medical visualization technologies, OFH has/is:
• Signed a licensing agreement with a radiation therapy equipment provider (related to HDR) and will seek additional partners for visualization
• Begun marketing the remaining inventory of Perspecta 3-D displays
• In discussions to license or sell the 3-D display IP portfolio
If you check out the news, be sure to look at where the first link listed on the 28 Dec 09 date takes you. It makes you think that you are going to Optics for Hire, but instead it goes to Seth Godin’s blog. Seth Godin is an author of business books, and as far as I can tell, has nothing to do with Actuality or Optics for Hire. They fixed the link.
via : Actuality Medical: News
