Gemotion screen shows video in living 3D
Here’s a groovy display for people looking to add that extra dimension to their viewing material…
Gemotion is a soft, ‘living’ display that bulges and collapses in sync with the graphics on the screen, creating visuals that literally pop out at the viewer.
Yoichiro Kawaguchi, a well-known computer graphics artist and University of Tokyo professor, created Gemotion by arranging 72 air cylinders behind a flexible, 100 x 60 cm (39 x 24 inch) screen. As video is projected onto the screen, image data is relayed to the cylinders, which then push and pull on the screen accordingly.
“If used with games, TV or cinema, the screen could give images an element of power never seen before. It could lead to completely new forms of media,” says Kawaguchi.
The Gemotion screen will be on display from January 21 to February 4 as part of a media art exhibit (called Nihon no hyogen-ryoku) at National Art Center, Tokyo, which recently opened in Roppongi.
[Source: Asahi]
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[…] Now this is crazy. University of Tokyo professor Yoichiro Kawaguchi has devised a screen that actually shows video in 3d. Behind the screen lies these rods that push and pull on the monitor depending on the feedback it gets from the video. Imagine playing whatever game and having the screen actually pop out at you to give your game that extra oomph. Imagine the hilarity that could ensue when you get this before your friends know you have it. Flip whatever game of your choice on, preferrably a title that has a lot of things that fly at you, and tell them to sit really close to the screen. “No really, you can see a ghost in the background, look closer, closer!”. And then bam! They would never see it coming and they would probably never come back. Who need friends anyway. Source: [Pink Tentacle via The Last Boss] Feel free to spread the love…These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]
[…] A University of Tokyo technology genius has created a ‘living’ display screen that offers dimensional depth to the videos played on it. Images of Gears of War chainsaw guns coming through the screen at me immediately come to mind and I now have no desire for an HDTV if this is possible any time soon. Yoichiro Kawaguchi’ Gemotion screen pushes and pulls the depth of the screen surface using 72 air cylinders behind a flexible 39 x 24 inch screen. The video projections get processed as image data that tells the cylinders how to bring the show to life. Obviously a three-ish foot by two foot screen with 72 points of depression doesn’t promise bringing Halo 3 normal mapping to life, but it would make countless RPG women racks look more appealing, and that’s a start.The Gemotion screen will be on display at the Tokyo National Art Center until February 4th. Hopefully we see some more digital developments taking these steps in the game industry soon. I think it would be hilarious if HDTVs went extinct in ten years because pixel accurate image depression display screens were developed. If they even pulled off a technology advancement that let you interact with the screen somehow, it would change the gaming industry forever. Picture playing Punch Out on the Wii Virtual Console, but you actually get to beat the shit out of Soda Popinski. […]
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This is not a new idea. In Expo’67 (Montreal Canada) the Czech pavilion had a multi-screen slide projector system with 224 projectors arranged in multiple screen “cubes” which could move in and out in 3 positions. Overall the imagery could produce the same basic effect as this Gemotion. Also, I worked on laser video projection in the 1980’s, one project for a music video involved projecting onto a rubber screen which expanded and contracted synchronised to the video sequence.
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