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Comments on: The $350,000 big-screen, 3D 'VisWall'

At Tufts University, the VisWall that casts molecules and more into eye-popping 3D relief on an 8-by-14-foot screen

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by TomMariner March 31, 2008 12:14 PM PDT
In the near future will cost 1000 times less.

As with everything, anticipated in science fiction. James P. Hogan's Genesis Machine had the hero using a vacant lecture hall with an entire wall as a display to work out a problem.

The computer interaction also had an "Einstein" atavar that got impatient when it felt that the user was not responding an tapped it's foot. Ala Microsoft.
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by foetalposition March 31, 2008 7:39 PM PDT
And for your desktop: http://www.cinemassivedisplays.com
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by dbargen April 1, 2008 6:10 AM PDT
I think Boeing made something like this in-house at their STL facility, but there's three screens instead of just the one.
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by krendelvonuchiy May 7, 2009 10:20 AM PDT
As with everything, anticipated in science fiction. James P. Hogan's Genesis Machine had the hero using a vacant lecture hall with an entire wall as a display to work out a problem.
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