Motivation

The idea behind StrobeDisplay is to create floating physical bits of digital information. The inspiration is derived from an installation at the MIT Museum, where strobes of light on falling water is used to create an illusion of stating datapoints(green dots). These elements could be used to represent an information element and interesting mid-air visualizations can be created.

Motivation video(Strobes)

Background

Present forms of display do it on x,y axis (pixels). There are attempts to make 2.5D displays lately, some from the Media Lab only- Recompose and Relief. Attempts to exploit the z axis  in an interface have been few, such as ZeroN.