[From VentureBeat]
HP’s Phil McKinney shows off a wide, wide, wide high-definition screen
August 20, 2010 | Dean Takahashi
Hewlett Packard is working on a display with a really wide screen. Phil McKinney, chief technology officer at the Personal Systems Group at HP, showed off the concept for the screen at the DisplaySearch Emerging Technologies conference this week in San Jose, Calif.
The screen is so wide that you can see an entire pro basketball court at the same time. McKinney referred to the screen as a “triple wide high-definition” screen that is created by stitching together images from lots of different cameras pointed at slightly different parts of the same scene. The company is working with the National Basketball League to develop truly immersive screens that make you feel like you’re there on the sidelines.… read more. “HP’s wide, wide, wide high-definition screen”