what a name for a tunneling mechanism. jefferson y. han shows how visual work based on frustrated total internal reflection looks like. or better, his cheap 'crazy multi input touch screen' does the job. (another url for the video)

...ftir is a phenomenon familiar to both the biometric and robot sensing communities. It acquires true touch image information at high spatial and temporal resolutions, is scalable to large installations, and is well suited for use with rear-projection. (acm paper, via robert)

in the paper han gives credits to some older work on ftir, por ejemplo: Mueller, R. 1974. Direct Television Drawing and Image Manipulating System. U.S. Patent 3,846,826. Nov. 1974.

after the i/o brush from mit another nice work. some similar stuff has been around ars electronica, and i remember, that i have seen another installation in barna as well. but i don't remember its name. it was a nice one, though as they captured the movement of the people and displayed it on screen in a similar way as in the han piece. included was a kind of fade out effect, but there was nothing you needed to touch. just moving was required.

The Register: DVD Forum okays 30GB, dual-layer HD DVD-R Formal ratification 'next Spring', says Toshiba Toshiba today said the DVD Forum has approved its suggestion for a 30GB, dual-layer recordable HD DVD-R disc.

but actually this old story is of more interest: toshiba invests in holographic disc firm (related stories, 19th of july)

3D TV: A Scalable System for Real-Time Acquisition, Transmission and Autostereoscopic Display of Dynamic Scenes, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

stereoscope, wheatstone (1838) parallax stereogram, ives (1903) integral display, lippman (1908) parallax panoramagram, ives (1928) lenticular sheets (1930s hologram, dennis gabor (1948)

acquisition: model based, light shield system, multiview video compression

huebschman (2003) holographic display, holo video

according to bruce sterling: dead media

Devignes's stereoscopic zoetrope (1860) Stereoscopic phenakistoscopes: Seller's Kinematoscope (1861), Shaw's stereoscopic phenakistiscope (1860) Bonelli and Cook's microphotograph stereo-phenakistiscope (1863), Wheatstone's stereoscopic viewer (c. 1870) 3-D projection systems: d'Almeida's projected 3-D magic lantern slides (1856), Heyl's Phasmatrope (1870), Grivolas's stereoscopic moving pictures (1897), the Fairall anaglyph process (1922), Kelly's Plasticon (1922), Ives and Leventhall's Plastigram, aka Pathe Stereoscopiks, aka Audioscopiks, aka Metroscopix (1923,1925, 1935, 1953), Teleview (New York 1922), polarized light stereoscopic movies (1936), Ivanov's parallax stereogram projector (Moscow 1941), Savoy's Cyclostereoscope (Paris 1949), the Telekinema (London 1951), Space Vision (Chicago 1966)

hey, ifa2005 people, the acronym hdtv has a long history and died out not just once, according to the pointer above:

dead video: ...Panasonic HDTV, (1974), dead color television formats: Baird Telechrome, HDTV, PALplus letterbox format, etc

well, 'the other' view, interesting hdtv battle and history - maybe not so different at all, in the end ...