[STEAM] The man who put Doom in a Lego brick is now playing it on a volumetric voxel display

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A still image of ***** on a volumetric display. | Photo by James Brown (@ancientjames) In 2022,

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, the Weta Workshop graphics engineer whose hobby is building amazing displays. Now, he’s built a crystal ball filled with shimmering, spinning volumetric light — and of course he’s playing ***** on it.

But not just any *****.

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, where every dot of the game’s graphics

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, just like the dots of the volumetric display he’s created.

As he explains on

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, the physical illusion is fairly simple: “It’s like a hologram fan, but instead of spinning a 1D strip to make a 2D image, it spins a 2D panel to make a 3D image.” On his Mastodon, he breaks it down a bit more

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Brown’s been working on this for over a year now: if I’m not mistaken, he introduced the...

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