3D display

G'day,

Probably old news to many here but....

Real 3D in Real-Time
How useful would it be for surgeons to explore a 3D image of the tumour
they are about to remove - to be able to examine it from all sides? And
what if air-traffic controllers could see their patch of airspace in
full 3D, with all of their aircraft clearly represented? Well now they
can. A new display system called Perspecta 1.9 projects real-time images
onto a 25-centimetre-diameter screen as it spins rapidly within a
soccer-ball-sized sphere. The 3D image created appears to hang in
midair, allowing users to view it from all sides, rotate it and zoom in
and out. The system is already being used to visualise data from medical
scanners, to picture the Earth's crust using seismic data, and to
represent squadrons of aircraft using radar information...

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18625025.400

Cheers

Beth