“Floating Volume Viewer”
Conference:
Experience Type(s):
Title:
- Floating Volume Viewer
Description:
Floating Volume Viewer presents a novel environment where the viewers can slice the 3D image floating in the air and see what’s inside interactively. This direct manipulation interface consists of a transparent acrylic plate with a 6-DOF motion sensor and an autostereoscopic display based on CIVI (Coarse Integral Volumetric Imaging) technology, which combines the multiview solution based on integral imaging and the volumetric solution using multiple image planes [1-4]. The viewer can slice the floating 3D object presented by the CIVI display with the transparent plate and see the arbitrary cross section of the object (Fig. 1). Since the CIVI display can present 3D images that corresponds to the viewing positions like holograms (Fig. 2), multiple users can share this experience at the same time.
References:
[1]
H. Kakeya, “Coarse integral imaging and its applications,” SPIE Proc. 6803, 680317 (2008).
[2]
H. Kakeya, “Realization of undistorted volumetric multiview image with multilayered integral imaging,” Optics Express, Vol. 19, pp. 20395–2040 (2011).
[3]
S. Sawada and H. Kakeya, “Coarse integral volumetric imaging with flat screen and wide viewing angle,” to appear in Journal of Electronic Imaging (2012).
[4]
http://www.diginfo.tv/v/11-0207-r-en.php
[5]
A. Cassinelli and M. Ishikawa, “Volume slicing display,” SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Emerging Technologies (2009).
[6]
T. Nagayama and J. Oishi, “Deskram,” SIGGRAPH 2006 Emerging Technologies (2006).
