Nine HDTVs form 3D visualization rig, but only in the name of science

If you’re the kind of person who happens to have a number of LCD HDTV’s lying around, we suggest you give University of California, San Diego’s Calit2 Visualization Team a ring. Researchers from the group have constructed a three-column, nine-panel 3D display using flat screens from JVC, stereoscopic glasses, and “game PCs with high end NVIDIA game engines.” Dubbed NexCAVE, it’s a much more inexpensive version of the its projector-powered StarCAVE used for data analysis, although its range is more limited — on the plus side, however, since this is LCD, it can be used in bright rooms. At 6,000 x 1,500 pixel, the resolution isn’t as mind-blowing as we’d hope, but the team is currently building a version for Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) that’s 7 columns (totaling 21 panels) and 15,000 x 1,500 resolution. If nothing else, any chance we can play Mirror’s Edge on this? Video demonstration of the nine-panel rig after the break.

[Via PhysOrg]

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