Screens have been flat for so long that most of us stopped asking if they could do anything else. Kermit Shao has not stopped asking.
On The Innovators, he walked me through what he is building at CubeVi. At first glance, it looks like a small 3D monitor on Kickstarter for about the price of a mid range game. Under that, he is chasing something bigger, a path from today’s trick screens to true holographic windows.
The current device, the P1 “Playground 1”, is a 15 inch display that shows real depth without glasses. The core idea is simple. The screen does not just push the same image to both eyes. It finds your pupils with eye tracking, then sends a slightly different image to each. That difference fools your brain in the same way a VR headset does, so an object on the panel appears to sit in space, floating just behind the glass.
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