Virtual 3D “fish tank” box has screens all around

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Virtual 3D “fish tank” box has screens all around
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The brilliantly simple (if perhaps poorly named) pCubee from The University of British Columbia’s Human Communications Technology Lab is exactly what it appears to be–a box with flat screens on 5 sides. Both the user’s position and the orientation of the box are tracked to provide a real-time, perspective-corrected illusion of 3D forms “inside” the box. I want one with an impossible pet inside, like a baby Totoro or something. [via Geekologie]

4 thoughts on “Virtual 3D “fish tank” box has screens all around

  1. BryanB says:

    it should be called a holocron! *cough*

  2. Matthew Mccorkle says:

    where can I buy one? :D

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