A Day Made of Glass

Seze Mune · February 21, 2012, 07:43:24 PM

Many of you have probably seen this promotional video made by Corning. If you haven't, it's full of pretty cool futuristic things. Might be useful, also, to those of us who can develop some of the ideas for our RPs.

A Day Made of Glass

Niri Te · February 21, 2012, 08:53:08 PM

Quote from: Seze Mune on February 21, 2012, 07:43:24 PM
Many of you have probably seen this promotional video made by Corning. If you haven't, it's full of pretty cool futuristic things. Might be useful, also, to those of us who can develop some of the ideas for our RPs.

A Day Made of Glass

Ma Seze Mune,
This piece that you put up on the thread is really GREAT. You just showed EVERYONE that what we saw in the link room at Hell's Gate, is not a bunch of special effects, that stuff is RIGHT NOW. It is very expensive at the moment, but the economics of scale will have an effect with this stuff too, and in five years, this stuff will be a lot more common, as the "cutting edge" moves even further into "the future" at an accelerated rate.
The cool animal photos are something that brightens my spirits at the end of a long, hard day, but this stuff, you just pushed it up a notch, keep up the GREAT posts.
ta Niri Te

ExLibrisMortis · February 21, 2012, 09:46:33 PM

The follow up video is even more sweet.

Seze Mune · February 21, 2012, 10:25:52 PM

Quote from: ExLibrisMortis on February 21, 2012, 09:46:33 PM
The follow up video is even more sweet.

Cool! Post please?

ExLibrisMortis · February 21, 2012, 11:10:06 PM

A Day Made of Glass 2: Same Day. Expanded Corning Vision.

`Eylan Ayfalulukanä · February 22, 2012, 03:31:01 AM

Almost everything they showed in this video is doable with technology we have now. How much of it will come to pass? Only the marketplace knows. Personally, what is shown here for me would be a little much.

The most interesting item on this video is the flexible display that was being used to show blueprints (which no longer need to be blue). That is still a ways away yet.

I am not sure I would like transparent displays. They are cool on 'Avatar', and in this video, but I like my blacks black! (TV engineer showing through!)

Much of what you see here though, is really not so much video display technology as it is 'Ipad technology'.

Seze Mune · February 22, 2012, 12:33:00 PM

It's sort of the osmosis of that technology throughout the human sphere, mostly using iterations of gorilla glass I think. Although the flexible OLED is pretty cool...

Txur’Itan · February 22, 2012, 04:27:13 PM

Transparent LCD

Samsung Transparent LCD.m4v

Tsufätu Ayioangä · February 22, 2012, 05:07:47 PM

This would be sooooooo distracting to me. i would literally never get anything done...

Seze Mune · February 22, 2012, 05:38:46 PM

You could take a northern exposure and use the transparent LCD on the window, bringing up what looks like curtains or a roman shade, etc. Change it at will for the mood and color you want. Not sure it would work too well on an eastern, southern or western exposure.

Question: how easy would it be to see these images on the LCD in daylight versus artificial light?

Niri Te · February 22, 2012, 06:08:36 PM

I would have nooo problem with transparent video displays on several of the aircraft that I fly, I think that having sliding displays like on the inbound shuttle in the beginning of the movie would be great!!!!
Niri Te

`Eylan Ayfalulukanä · February 24, 2012, 03:54:00 AM

Quote from: Seze Mune on February 22, 2012, 05:38:46 PM
You could take a northern exposure and use the transparent LCD on the window, bringing up what looks like curtains or a roman shade, etc. Change it at will for the mood and color you want. Not sure it would work too well on an eastern, southern or western exposure.

Question: how easy would it be to see these images on the LCD in daylight versus artificial light?

THat is a very good question. Monochrome LCDs could work quite well. Color is a very different story, and thye usually require a backlight. Display LCDs made today are available in sunlight-readable configurations. We have such an LCD monitor for our field shooting team.

I know of two LCD curtain walls. The first is at the Eastman Kodak data center in Rochester, NY. When first opened in the mid-90's, it was the single biggest load on Rochester Gas and Electric's power grid, drawing some 7 megawatts of power! (Our transmitter facility used a puny 190 kW in comparison. (But 108 of those kilowatts were dissipated in an area about the size of a 3 gallon water jug!)) They had a LCD curtain wall like that which looked into a server room from the lobby. I am sure today that with more modern computers (and Kodak's drastic downsizing) that they don't use anywhere near that much power. The other LCD curtain wall (which I have seen) is at the Center for the Reproduction of Endangered Wildlife at the Cincinnatti Zoo. This is quite the facility, with cryogenic storage vaults for tissue samples and gamates, and a 'plastic bubble' facility for rearing Pallas' cats. They had several LCD curatin walls in their lobby looking into various labs in the facility. I hope to be seeing this facility again in June, as the Feline Conservation Federation is having their annual meeting there. (They also have the finest collection of wild felines on public display in the US.)

Seze Mune · February 24, 2012, 10:02:17 AM

Quote from: `Eylan Ayfalulukanä on February 24, 2012, 03:54:00 AM
The other LCD curtain wall (which I have seen) is at the Center for the Reproduction of Endangered Wildlife at the Cincinnati Zoo. This is quite the facility, with cryogenic storage vaults for tissue samples and gamates, and a 'plastic bubble' facility for rearing Pallas' cats. They had several LCD curatin walls in their lobby looking into various labs in the facility. I hope to be seeing this facility again in June, as the Feline Conservation Federation is having their annual meeting there. (They also have the finest collection of wild felines on public display in the US.)

Hmm...this is within my orbit. One of these days I will have to visit that zoo. Until now, I had never heard of Pallas's cat. They're beautiful! Seems they are roughly the size of housecats. I wonder about their personality. Are they as sweet as servals can be? (Sorry, I know this is OT

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'Oma Tirea · February 28, 2012, 02:06:55 AM

All this definitely sounds doable within the next century or so. It'll probably kick off with plain, framed glass tablets, and end with the flexible glass and 3-D stuff. Even in 2148 and beyond it seems like all the 3-D stuff is precious in comparison to all the other glass stuff (as we see in AVATAR).

The number one issue though: privacy, especially with the tablets and hand-held devices. It looks like there's no easy way to mask transparency.

Niri Te · February 28, 2012, 02:15:54 AM

Quote from: 'Oma Tirea on February 28, 2012, 02:06:55 AM
The number one issue though: privacy, especially with the tablets and hand-held devices. It looks like there's no easy way to mask transparency.

SURE THERE IS, Redneck "Privacy screening". DUCT TAPE stuck to the back side of the device.!!
Niri Te ( Hey, it's late, I can't get to sleep, and I'm bored).

'Oma Tirea · February 28, 2012, 02:35:14 AM

Or just use the tablets we have today

Seze Mune · February 28, 2012, 07:51:44 AM

Redneck privacy screening?!? Never heard of it. (Starts imaginging putting duct tape on the back of her cell phone...uh oh...now how to get the battery out?

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Niri Te · February 28, 2012, 08:24:10 AM

No, this was for the transparent glass cellphones. By the way, WHERE IS THE BATTERY on those nice see through devices in the advertisement? Are the battery's see through too?
Niri Te

Reykoveyzä te Werufalä Haflak'ite · February 28, 2012, 09:32:21 AM

is all that stuff real? or computerised? $:-\$
if its real, i am GETTING me some hi-tech glass!

Seze Mune · February 28, 2012, 11:28:53 AM

I think that stuff is under development, so it's not ready for market yet. As for the batteries, that's a good question. Perhaps they're a combination of solar with some kind of light cloaking technology. Who knows? Wish I knew someone in R & D at Corning.