TL-8 Holo tanks?

The August 13, 1990 Electronic-Engineering Times has a neat article
about TL-8 Holo tanks.  Two prototype systems were displayed at
Siggraph in Dallas (TX).

TI's presentation (the one I liked) is sofa-sized, and projects
a true 3-D image under a 24-inch (~100 cm) diameter hood.  A
green laser reflects from a spinning disk to create the image.
TI claims that increasing the  size and number of images is simply
a matter of adding more parallel processing.

The article says TI is thinking of 3-D HUD's for pilots, and
interactive 3-D games.

The other system uses a PC-driven CRT to simulate 3-D in a realistic
fashion.

Read the article.  It starts on page 1.

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So there it is: the first holotank.  A monochrome image and high-powered
computer hard and software.   Just think of the MT simulation we could
write for THAT interface. :-)

Of course hard-copy is another problem...
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