Wednesday, March 30, 2011

What All Military Planners Want .... 3D Battlefield Planning

A 2D Representation of UPSD's 3D Image DARPA

DARPA's Urban Photonic Sandtable Display Enables 3D Battlefield Planning Without Goofy Glasses -- Popular Science

Long gone are the days of pushing plastic armies around hand-drawn maps. Today’s military planners deserve technology of the future, and that means nothing less than 3-D holograms will do. Luckily, we have DARPA, ever-ready to step in with a solution. The Urban Photonic Sandtable Display (UPSD) allows up to 20 participants to simultaneously view and manipulate the 360-degree, 3-D image on the table, without having to wear 3-D glasses.

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My Comment: When the price falls down to my budget level .... I want one.

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