3 Deep

by Alan Sullivan IEEE Spectrum, April 2005 Success with less-expensive displays for technical applications will open the door to institutional and consumer markets. High school biology students could forgo the queasy trial of hands-on animal dissections by simply gathering around the classroom volumetric display to view the innards of any creature in the lesson plan. Home shopping, or even dating, via the Web might be less fraught with uncertainty. Amateur cosmologists could probe the deepest reaches of space, orbit stars, and pass through nebulae, or survey far-off worlds. Read the article