A Working 3D Display

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The system works by projecting high-speed video onto a rapidly spinning mirror. As the mirror turns, it reflects a different and accurate image to each potential viewer. Our rendering algorithm can recreate both virtual and real scenes with correct occlusion, horizontal and vertical perspective, and shading.

While flat electronic displays represent a majority of user experiences, it is important to realize that flat surfaces represent only a small portion of our physical world. Our real world is made of objects, in all their three-dimensional glory. The next generation of displays will begin to represent the physical world around us, but this progression will not succeed unless it is completely invisible to the user: no special glasses, no fuzzy pictures, and no small viewing zones.

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App Engine Google Product Roadmap

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

The following represents a rough feature roadmap for Google App Engine. At Google they've historically avoided giving release dates for our products because they know that software development is incredibly hard to predict. Thus, it should be noted that while they're working hard on these features, development schedules do slip at times, and the dates below may change. They'll do their best to update this roadmap as their engineers continue development.

Future Releases: October 2008 - March 2009
Service for storing and serving large files
Datastore import and export utility for large datasets
Billing: developers can pay for more resource usage
Support for a new runtime language
Uptime monitoring site
Recent Releases: HTTPS support for *.appspot.com

Support for a new runtime language
Will it be Java ?

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