The idea draws on a 3D display approach known as fishtank virtual reality, where a real-time physics simulation engine coupled with the user’s head perspective creates the constant sense of interacting with a 3D world contained inside the device.
Users wear a pair of headphones that tracks their head movement, and can hold pCubee in one hand as they do more fine-tuned control with a regular computer mouse held in the other. A stylus also allows users to poke or prod objects bouncing around inside pCubee.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia envision their viewing tank as having a future in games, storytelling, and education, as well as in viewing 3-D maps of the human heart or architectural mockups.
[via Technabob]
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