Gadgetory

we're with Stevie booty SH and it were in the Applied Sciences lab here what are you guys working on imagine a day where you know in your home one wall is dedicated to being your magic wall well where it can teleport you to another world without really going anywhere you can have a conversation as richly as interactively as I am having with you but at the same time we have this digital augmentation that's happening between us so the window of the North Star it's the vision it's the long-term thing that we want to create because it's it's you know it's the holodeck right in something right you want to create the holiday season sometimes this is the holiday that's great in order to send this light eq chai we develop a very unique lens it's a flat lens and we put it behind an LCD we replace the backlight or the LCD with a flat lens and we're able to shoot light out into specific locations in space this is now this which is again a solid piece of plastic we have LEDs on the side light travels throughout and we're able to shoot that light it's like this is gonna be like you're gonna say just I want you to test this to see that it's solid and then you're gonna have an assistant come out here yeah no no no no sawing allowed here okay uh and so so here we have an array of LEDs if I want to send light out here I can just turn this on right this LEDs mapped all the way out here if I want to send light here I just turned that light off and everything I thought if I put an LCD on top of this and I know where your head is I'm able to know what light to turn on and thereby I can send an image to a specific location in space and therefore to each eye so this is the world's only a flat stereoscopic 3d display that's steerable have a seat okay this might be hard to take a shoot of oh yeah Jesus there are two strips of light right there on the left and right eye corresponding to each intimate I'm going to think try to think it the best way to describe what I'm seeing it is a teapot floating in the middle of a brick room and there are two biplanes flying around the teapot and they're all kind of spinning around in 3d I'm seeing it in 3d in the sense that it physically has depth to my eyes and as I move my head in and out or left-to-right the scene pivots or zooms appropriately as if if I were walking into this room and getting closer to the teapot or getting further away from the teapot and everything is kind of moving in a chord I don't think there's any way this can be captured on camera it is very weird that I have to say no wait a second is the teapot reflecting the room no reflecting you yes it's reflecting what it's seen me it's reflecting what it would be reflecting in the center this room yes it's very this is very odd we didn't even know this was possible a year ago now because we can send an image to each eye and each eye sees basically its own unique image we can certainly send it an image to each person you see a teapot I see a skull your image is a lot more pleasant than mine we are in fact finding where you are in space and then shooting a cone of light to each to each face and you can you can do that so Steve if you move your your set your head side to side you can see that those LEDs are in fact following you are they are - yes ensign using the sensor that's lighting up the bits that would make sense to display base I believe and what that means if you fool around you can't see anything right it's like your own private view yeah this would be great for porn yeah it exactly right multiplayer halo yes we're building a 55 inch version of this how many years are we away from the from the magic women you know that's hard that's hard for me to me a number I actually had to get I wish I could you know five years I want you to make that assessment by the time I'm done here okay what's next if you want the illusion of looking through a window or a frame you have this function of that the view is changing as a function of your head parallel lights the parallax like this right in fact you can see that that image changing as I move my head left and right if it was a standard normal display this would only work for one person which is why we need to create a display that is multi-view right now you need to display that can see your hands in front of it you can't just put a camera up on top and have it look down because that's just too close to the display I want to be able to touch the display and even transmit the image of my finger to the other side as you saw in that video you had the two children almost you know meeting like this and that that brings a very kind of intimate you know real contact is this you know you and I are standing like this and you know and you know I want her you know like doing that like that yeah right and right high five that was cool okay pretty cool - and you know you can't do that you cannot do that through any type of technology that we know nothing that the high five is actually suffered because of digital technology what do you think magical or do we pay high fives are saying high five they're emailing people photos of other people high five yeah what can we do to get a real high five going here alright so we take the same light guy technology and run it in reverse so right there we had LED shining into it and projecting light out in the space yeah now we're going to put a camera here as is like your I was looking down through here which is the camera and we're going to look through the display okay and there's my hands it is an image of my hands through a display while the display is doing its business oh this is picking up the displays taking it up yeah all right let me try this let me see yeah another thing yeah you can so your the game we wrote to show you that you know we can you can you don't have to touch everything you know you have to touch a display to have interact with it this is the hover game and it's not about touching it's about manipulating this car come back next year I'll even show you some cooler stuff will just show to me now can't let's not wait why postpone why put off or tomorrow because then you will come back next year let's move it one more level okay here even further out sticky notes sticky notes digital sticky notes sticky notes are one of the hallmarks when you know something is truly digital you see it if there's a sticky note on it digitally you're looking at something digital not an analog clock things that need approval analog okay this will have the unique capability of not just seeing infrared light but also visible as well to show you that we can eventually get to that that vision of two people touching each other and giving each other high-fives no there's no tracking out here all through the display and that's what the display is able to see now I want to take this post-it note I'm going to put her here and I'm going to let go this is something that we saw in the new surface right yes but not quite like this because that look at that that is right well that's the actual that's an actual image that's actually not of a color reproduction above this but the new surface is able to kind of transcribe from from that sort of stuff so I've shown all the pieces all you know in its own kind of componentized concept right the idea then ultimately to put them all together to create you know a more ultimate experience well this is incredible this is awesome thank you so much for showing this off and which part are you selling me the whole package we have to do a deal both we get your kind of oh really discount okay cool I'll meet you in the alley we should high-five right that's so good