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I replicated Jonny lees demo to see how it looks in person but soon learned the problem is one of optics. Without presenting the content at the right focal dep
by jclarkcom 4y ago
I replicated Jonny lees demo to see how it looks in person but soon learned the problem is one of optics. Without presenting the content at the right focal depth you don’t get past accommodation and binocular convergence conflicts. Without shutter or polarized glasses you also don’t get past binocular cues - so it looks great on a video where there is one camera view but once you add a second human eye it stops looking 3D.
I started a company to try to solve these problems without using head mounted displays and we developed 3D displays that work using an array of rectangular lenses and micro displays plus fresnel lens sheets. We adopted this approach to a new product category we called virtual skylights where we replicate the look and feel of an open sky with a distance sun above you. As you walk around a room the sun will follow you in the sky across units due to the optics and there is no need for active head tracking for this particular case. The effect is really amazing even though the content in this case is super simple. Hard to experience on a 2d screen but we have some videos of it here, in the reaction video you can see how people react to seeing it the first time.
https://www.innerscene.com/a7/videos https://www.innerscene.com/a7/videos
- liendolucas 4y agoHats off, not only for the product but also for pursuing and solving the problems that you mentioned! Really cool! Just curious, is the technology prohibitively costly for individuals? If so, do you have any plans to make it accessible to mainstream public?
- jclarkcom 4y agoThanks! Yes - we are getting installed in a number of homes as well as businesses. We are still at the higher end of the market, but comparable in cost to a real skylight after install and maintenance cost - and you can put it in places where real windows or skylights are impossible. We are working on some pretty low cost models now and will have something this summer I think will work for most home owners. In some parts of the world we sell through partners who maintain their own pricing, so we don't have public pricing on the internet but I'm happy to give you some info if you shoot me an email at jonathan@innerscene.com or DM me here.