GLV Does Make an Appearance
The other day I asked if GLV was making an appearance. Evidently I was wrong in that case, but HDTVexpert is reporting that indeed, somebody is making use of the technology. It looks like Evans and Sutherland have developed the technology for use in domes and planetariums.
It’s known as the DigiStar 3 and is basically the same product that Sony had planned to develop before their success with 4K LCoS sidetracked them.
Evans and Sutherland claim their GLV projector, for which they apparently have an exclusive license to use in domed theaters and simulators, can crank out images with 4000×4000 pixel resolution and 2,000 lumens of brightness per projector, using a 60 Hz refresh rate. By stacking a second projector, system resolution is claimed to be 8K x 8K.
Link: HDTVexpert - The Grating Light Valve emerges from hiding in Salt Lake City
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June 29th, 2005 at 1:39 pm
Hrm. I sent a trackback to this piece, and it never arrived.
Clicking your trackback button gives me a link–and that’s what I used. Are you sure it is working?
Here’s a permalink: http://toob.typepad.com/content/2005/06/glv_appears_aga.html
Great stuff seeing (and soon to see at a local planetarium) GLV return to the fore.
June 29th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
Hmmm, I’ll take a look. Unfortunately I’ll be on vacation soon (I’ll have a guest writer though) so if it’s broken it won’t get fixed right away.