This month at a new SIGGRAPH 2015 conference, a team of researchers presented a screen that creates a 3D man with incredible detail gathering 216 projectors.
Created by USC Institute Creative Technologies, the automultiscopic 3D screen is basically based on a person's 3D (3D) model in video and is probably the next step from Oculus Rift, the now-known virtual reality device.
After "capturing" a person's face in video, using 30 cameras in bright light, the images are then split between 216 projectors.
The projectors are then aligned in a semi-circle around a large screen. Viewers walking around the screen will have an easy transition to eyea them from one image to another.
The end result is that the hologram of the person will show with great detail and depth.
The end result of this effort is realistic enough that figures can be narrated great or tragic events from the past or present and immortalized in this way, with the aim of placing them in museums, or in educational settings to tell their stories in a very convincing way.
Source: ict.usc.edu, thegreeksenergy.com
