‘display technology’

5 Screen Technologies to Lap the Laminate Off Your Desktop

02 Jun, 2010 by in TECH

So, you just bought a 30″ LCD screen to replace a 24″ LCD screen to replace a 17″ CRT monitor that replaced a slice of bread you stabbed toothpicks at to prove you knew the future of touch screen technology 10 years ago.

You were right, and now there’s a slew of options becoming available that will replace whatever collects fingerprints atop your dusty desktop. Some are being revealed this week at Computex 2010 where MSI is smashing everyone with their line-up, but all are impressive and show just how fast display tech is moving. Here’s five you’ll want to watch.

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What Did SolidWorks Do With Dizziness, Projectile Vomiting and Stereoscopic 3D?

10 Mar, 2010 by in TECH

If you’re like me, you know there’s nothing like spinning around till you stumble and slam your head through a 3D display. The small joys of life. Much like being able to model 3D on a display while wearing some dope looking lenses and chewing on a stick of butter. At least it use to be like that for SolidWorks users.

Some people got excited when SolidWorks added Stereoscopic 3D support using StereoGraphics CrystalEyes in 2005. Technology and user’s interests changed, and two years later… they canned it.

So what happened? What did SolidWorks do with the ability to viewing models with 3D glasses and a 3D monitor or projector? We got a hold of Kirk Haller, Director of Research at SolidWorks to find out what happened and whats going on to bring back the flurry of 3D that’s all the rage with the kids these days.

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Dungeon Master? Immersive 3D and Virtual 20-Sided Dies Go Touchy

19 Oct, 2009 by in TECH

Your weekends as a Thief, Cleric or Paladin are about to get really cool and immersive and I’m not talking about the late night meeting with the board of trustees.

Using Microsoft Surface, Carnegie Melon’s Entertainment Technology Center has descended into the realms of touchscreen gaming with the development of SurfaceScape. The game, if you can’t guess from the headline and first sentence, is Dungeons and Dragon. Here’s a look at it in action.

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Walls Upon Walls of Stackable OLED Displays. 3D Prod Dev Applications?

12 Oct, 2009 by in TECH

I abhor oversize images of cuddly cats as much as the next person, so having them on a 155″ OLED display doesn’t do much for me. However, having the option of taking that 155″ display and turning it into a 155,000 bajillion inch OLED display of a cuddly cat is a whole different story.

Last week at CEATAC, Mitsubishi put other display manufacturers bragging about viewing size to shame with their modular OLED display system. Made up of 4″x4″ squares of visual organic beauty, the display could feasibly be made to span the most unreasonable of height and length.

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Jump In. 5 Ways New Tech Is Has Completely Changed 3D CAD Design and PLM Forever

03 Jun, 2009 by in TECH

What’s in the wide, wide world of 3D CAD is going on? I’ll tell ya what’s going on, technology that has been presented over the past two weeks at E3 and various display and developer conferences has completely changed the way we are going to collaborate with people and design projects.

They’re technologies that will seemingly squeeze all the fun out of sitting around becoming morbidly obese and inefficient in our day to day interaction through the wires connected to our computer screens.

Not looking forward to that? If so, have a look at what you’ll what to run away from in the near future. Scratch that.. in the NOW. This is all tech that has debut this and last week, not concept, but in development and production, slated to launch within in the year. Boy are you gonna have fun…

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Your Future 3D CAD Interface May be Soft, Cozy Memory Foam

24 Feb, 2009 by in TECH

foam-touch-interfaceNo more slamming your face against the hard surface of your monitor in hopes of gaining the pity of your coworkers. The soft foam that sends you off to dreams of work the next day is potentially a future interface to create 3D models on.

DIS.PLAY allows you to manipulate projects objects via touch-sensitive force sensors embedded between two pieces of foam.Why foam? Because it’s the dawning of a new age where we won’t need those hard, static 2-dimensional displays of course. ‘iFoam’ 2, anyone?

check out the pics and video after the jump and the 3D modeling part at about 1:15…
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How Will Flexible Screen Technology Affect 3D CAD and PLM?

10 Dec, 2008 by in TECH

Prepare to wrap yourself in some warm flexible display technology on a cold wintry night. The news is getting more common and the screens themselves are getting larger.

Gamers and advertising is getting all excited about being able to wrap ‘experience’ in every corner of a room or building, but how it could effect 3D CAD and PLM could go beyond ‘the experience’ of creating product design to creating a more collaborative environment.

What are the applications? Are there any?
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Flying Ninjas, No. 3D Future CAD Interface, Yes.

02 Oct, 2008 by in TECH

flying ninjas love 3d tactile force feedbackCome in out of the large open spaces, where you risk inevitable attacks from throngs of flying ninjas, and have a look at the near possibility of how we will be interfacing with virtual objects in the future.

3D space is a pretty big area to be manipulating like a clump of old clay, but you whack that space down to a defined volume within the tightly wound wavelengths of a friendly frequency and suddenly, you’re moving junk around in 3D space with your hand. Check this out.

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