I got sidetracked by the amazing VR display. Seems it's just glasses and headtracking? You'd think such a simple tech would be mainstream. I've been meaning to hack something similar together with anaglyph glasses and my webcam, but I'm blown away by how good the fully fledged system looks.
Maybe look into trackIR or Freetrack head tracking. 3dD monitors have been around for a while too. I think the use case of head tracking or 3D alone is too niche.
Yes, I have used TrackIR. It's just an IR camera and some IR LEDs. My laptop has both of those built-in. It just seems odd that with nothing more than that, plus a trivially cheap pair of shutter glasses, I could achieve the appearance of a full holographic display - and this isn't already mainstream. Or even widely demoed. Or even, apparently, a little Github repository somewhere. And yet it's apparently widely used in medical imaging. What gives?
This should probably have [video] in the title.
Also great to see some Tom Scott on here! This is just one of many videos in the “Built for Science” series.