I saw a picture of the Spheree on my Source, and I thought it was some kind of crystal ball, but with holograms. Seriously, wouldn’t you pay good money for something that? After all, who wouldn’t want some way to communicate with their friend as a 3-D floating head?

Unfortunately, this is not what the Spheree is. It is essentially a ball-shaped screen where you can work on 3-D graphics. If you don’t think this is important, then you clearly worked with 3-D graphics before on a 2-D screen.

Now, this is 3-D effect is not created with holograms, but an interesting optical illusion. It uses multiple mini-projectors in order to shine the images on the interior surface of the sphere. The user wears a specialized headband that has some motion-tracking software so that a user can just walk around the Spheree and see their creation.

You can watch the video and see people creating 3D things and then using gesture-based interface. It is perfect for when you want to mold something with 3-D clay in a digital world.

Something tells me that we’ll be seeing more technologies like this in the near future. I am still holding out for those 3-D Crystal Ball Displays and/or communicators.

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