Dec 26 20073D Projector System Is Wicked, Scary
The Musion high definition projector system "uses unique HD video projection, producing three dimensional moving images within a stage setting." It looks like it involves some sort of strange glass pyramid. And magic. A lot of magic. And not the fake shit that ass-clown Criss Angel is into, oh no. I'm talking legitimate 'sell your soul to Slavin the evil warlock' magic here. The real deal. The videos are from Toyota promoting their Auris vehicle at a shopping center in Europe. So yeah. I'm not sure what the first video of the ghost woman has to do with selling cars, but I think it has something to do with harnessing the power of the dead. Wait a minute -- that's my great aunt Gertrude! She says she's going to kill me if I buy domestic. I knew it!
Another video showing the Auris after the jump.
HD Projection Systems Allows 3D Moving Images to Appear on Live Stage Setting [techeblog]
Reader Comments
1. daguz - December 26, 2007 1:03 PM
Stupid ass people with the flash. Damn, I'd have to kick some flashity flashity ass.
2. woifp - December 26, 2007 1:51 PM
The first video isn't for cars at all. It's a video of Kate Moss using the Pepper's Ghost effect for the Alexander McQueen's fashion show.
3. guate6 - December 26, 2007 8:22 PM
Very neat about the projector thing...while I am not sure exactly how the second video really 'shows' the projector and what not, it's still neat to see what the lovechild of a new Camry and a new Yaris looks like.
Also, I agree with #1 about the flashes. That, and there's no way an image created from light can come out well with a flash photograph, heh, noobs.
4. joe - December 28, 2007 11:23 AM
one step closer to "help me obiwan youre my only hope"
5. Rashid Muhammad - December 28, 2007 9:05 PM
Imagine the porn you can watch on that thing.
6. styledork - December 31, 2007 12:04 PM
yup. the first video is from alexander mcqueen's f/w 06-07 collection presentation, 'windows of culloden.' so this technology has been around at least a year or so. does it project on smoke or vapor or something? wish i knew how it worked. other than the magic, of course.
7. Rock - February 11, 2008 11:56 AM
This technology has been around a long time and is based on "peppers ghost". Basically it uses glass (silvered or not) as a beam splitter to create an image "apparently" in space. We patented similar technology 22 years ago and created a pyramid shaped glass sytem for 360 degree viewing in 1992 for CES and 1994 for ths same show, this was for AT&T cosumer products. Of course now with HD and better video projectors the options are endless.
8. Will - June 7, 2009 2:15 AM
Isn't that the theme from Schindler's List playing in the first video? What an odd choice.
9. The Architect - January 7, 2011 4:53 AM
this is a nice try but the 3D LED cubes on youtube I am sure are the forrunner to true 3D video tech. some company will produce tiny close together LEDs with mostly clear material and some LCD materials to create blockage for where light is not supposed to show through when wanted (like when a person is walking in the foreground and a car or something else passes behind them)
anyone who wants to see the forerunner to that can do so by searching youtube for LED cube 16x16x16 though they have bigger ones, it still has a way to go. but do not doubt this will be what replaces the CRT tv space wise and choice of these if you do not care about bulk to get the true 3D, otherwise I am sure led tvs that are flat and border less and flexible will be the other option (think a video projector screen that is the actual screen and requires no projector to make images.)