3d display with nasa world wind

3D Display with NASA World Wind

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, a German research institute, will be

presenting a new 3D display at the CeBIT tradeshow, March 9-15, 2006,

Hannover, Germany. The engineering team states that the monitor is

"specially designed for use as a travel aid", and their test software

has been a slightly-modified version of NASA World Wind. To maintain a

stereographic view, a camera tracks the user's eye position and adapts

the image to the visual angle. A somewhat similar holographic display

was used for security at the 2006 Superbowl; see my 2Feb06 post for

details.

If you want a "more" 3D virtual globe on your existing computer, an

anaglyph plug-in has been created for NASA World Wind. It can be found

at worldwindcentral.

New Virtual Globe?

According to the Fraunhofer website, "[institute] researchers are

thinking about developing their own program on the lines of NASA World