Extended 3D: TVs as Big as a Room

A TV that requires an entire room for viewing.

Extended 3-D televisions will require an entire room in order to present it.  There are field plates, a projection system, and an extensive sound system to simulate room-filling sound.  It will offer images that look totally realistic. 

An extended 3-D TV will first use the field plates that form a sort of thick frame to generate possibly over a million layers of electromagnetic fields.  Either that or the field will be able to be warped by the images projected into it.  A field plate could be over a meter wide. 

The images that are projected into the warped fields will require a color-coded image to warp the fields.  The color-coded images will range from infrared for the images furthest away to ultraviolet for the images closest up. 

Let’s say a TV talk show were being presented in extended 3-D.  The cameras would use a radar-type sensor system to produce a multiple focus image ranging from infrared to ultraviolet.  The regular images would be captured too.  That means the scan speed would be at least 60 frames per second.  But since the system is computerized, the scanning speed will change according to the speed of the action. 

The closer to the camera the objects are, the more focus plains that will be required.  Objects that are in the distance will look flatter just like they look flatter to the human eye.  The images will look so realistic that you might be able to stick your nose up to a projected image and think you’re looking at the real object. 

In my book THE MADHOUSE PROJECTS I wrote about extended 3-D television.  People spent eight hours a day with their noses up to projected images to make sure they looked real.  An extended 3-D image  reconstruction unit would take the incoming TV signals and make them into extended 3-D.  If the images coming in are in traditional 2-D, the reconstruction unit will refocus the images to transform them into extended 3-D images. 

The sound will have to be three-dimensional too.  That means the speaker system will have to consist of multiple speakers so that the images will appear to be creating the sound instead of the sound appearing to come out of speakers. 

An entire viewing room will be required or a wall that will have the plates placed in it.  The images will be projected from the projector that will be behind the plates.  That mean when the TV is off, you’ll see the plates and the projector.  But when it is on, the plates will be activated and the images will be projected into the warped fields. 

In order to capture the images with the fields, lasers may be required to produce an invisible barrier.  The fields would be like the screen of a conventional TV only they would be photons.  Holograms look grainy.  Extended 3-D images should look more realistic. 

The energy requirements would be greater than with conventional TV systems since the field plates would require a lot of energy.  So if you’re going to have an extended 3-D television system, you better be willing to pay a lot for electricity unless you have your own electrical generation system. 

Since the system is computerized, it won’t need to be projecting the images at 30 frames a second after the color-coded images are projected at 30 frames per second.  The color-coded images might be projected at a rate equal to 60 frames per second and the projected images would be projected at the same speed.  But for something like a car race, the images might be ten times faster so there wouldn’t be a lot of blurring. 

Programs that are recorded in extended 3-D will require at least twice as much informational capacity.  The projector system will do the rest.  People who have such a TV will be able to set it up for security reasons.  That means when people leave their homes, they could set up the system to project the images of people in the viewing room.  That means someone who looks in might not know only imageas are in the house and not real people. 

The idea for extended 3-D originated while I watch “The Jetsons” when George was able to bring images into the living room.   Extended 3-D may make the program about the 21st century into reality during the 21st century.