How feasible are star wars™ mid-air displays?

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 935-942

  Rakkolainen, Ismo ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b FogScreen Inc   (Finland)

Author keywords

3D displays; FogScreen; Holography; Immaterial displays; Mid air displays; Star wars

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; HOLOGRAPHY; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

IMMATERIAL DISPLAYS; MID AIR DISPLAYS; STAR WARS;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 35348887925     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2007.64     Document Type: Conference Paper

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