What is this thing, or what do you want it to be?
12 responses to “What’s That? (9)”
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Bingo Zacker, and within 1.5 hours. Our first U.S. winner.
The only error is the plasma screen assumption. That would be a good way to get a huge display with a concern for cost…..
This, on the other hand, is from Oak Ridge National Labs. It consists of 27 huge rear projection television screens mounted on an enormous scaffolding for precise relative alignment. It is a room-sized immersive display covering most of the peripheral vision.
I like Vladnik’s evocative image (flipping foreground and background).
I thought it looked like Niven’s Ringworld or Bungie’s Halo.
I wonder if they have played Halo2 on it?
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I’d love to play halo on it. But plasma or not I woudln’t ever be able to afford one of those. I’m holding out for the shine-the-image-on-your-retina glasses to satisfy my immersive desires. I heard promising things about such devices a couple years ago – people think MEM’s can make it happen. And then there was the University professor who actually made a monochrome prototype. Is there hope for non billionares like me?
And is this the giant display they have that is hooked up to a giant trackball they use to control it? I.e. spin the globe and zoom in / out like a video game? The impressive thing about that system was the server farm that grawked the latest satellite imagery for the world into a searchable, spinnable, zoomable display in realtime.
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Too bad the solution is already posted under the picture.
I would have guessed it’s a room-sized immersive display covering most of the peripheral vision that consists of 27 huge rear projection television screens mounted on an enormous scaffolding for precise relative alignment and is is from Oak Ridge National Labs’ other hand.
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yes… pandas should move quicker.
They are giving these fellow bears a hand, but it seems they don´t want to take it…
btw for me this puzzle is just one of those large brochures you get on vacation. Open and viewed from a corner.
No Plasma.
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