Citation
(2004), "Future projections", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 53 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijppm.2004.07953aad.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Future projections
Future projections
Remember Tom Cruise watching hovering videos of his wife and manipulating screenless data in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report? How about R2D2's playback of Princess Leia's distress message in George Lucas's Star Wars? Just some great special effects, right? Not any more. Soon a Heliodisplay(TM) display will be coming to a store near you.
IO2 Technology has completed a working prototype of the Heliodisplay which can project TV, video and computer images into free space – thin air. You can walk around, or even through, the floating image; something possible only in science fiction until now. The unit, now about the size of a bread box, currently projects images as large as 27 inches (diagonal) with a capability to expand to 150 inches.
The patent-pending device has interactive capabilities as well. Images can be manipulated just as though they were displayed on a conventional computer monitor, but with Heliodisplay, instead of a mouse, a viewer uses a hand (no special glove needed) to move an image or a finger to move the cursor and select an object.
For more information, see www.io2technology.com