Volumetric gaming, is this new?

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Mnementh said:

JRPGfan said:

It has design flaws that VR handles much much better though.

For this to be practical (and kinda do what VR does), you ll basically need a entire room covered in this technology, not just a small table.

 

1) that ll be super expensive, and require each home to have a dedicated room for it.
2) it ll still be "less" of a experiance than what VR can provide, by simply putting on a headset (much less room requirement & cost).
2) it has more than "some way" to go before being practically, unless you want to only use it for simple small board game type games.

Why does it have to be a full room? A table with the display above it allows multiple people to gather around and play together. That would be ideal. Filling a whole room seems awkward and I dont see the point really.

It doesn't - I've been following volumetric displays for quite some time now and there are lot of different techs - from rotating displays all the way to lasers "painting" images in thin air - but so far none of them is actually that good - or if anywhere near good, it requires some sort of glasses (which actually doesn't really make it volumetric display at all).

Gathereing around the table, what I think, will be major driving force for this type of devices (if reasonably priced) - boardgames are seeing huge expansion in last 10 or so years, and this is exactly kind of tech that will bring that around the table feel while having most benefits of video games.