i would spend so much on something like that....

i know -_-; but i bet there is something like that in the works

It's a little more complicated than that, but ok. Whatever you need to think to help yourself sleep at night.

Honestly, I'm surprised a company hasn't come out with a monitor with webcams baked into the backside to produce something like this, but only in real time. I've seen DIY versions on YouTube, so it's definitely possible. It just seems like this would be a niche market companies would try to grab.

But that would only be half transparent. True transparency would be seeing through both sides, which is probably not too hard to accomplish, but expensive and worthless.

or we can just wait till they make the computer screens from avatar (holographic)

The issue with that is determining the viewing angle for multiple users and having it change based on that, yet be different for the two people viewing. Great idea and would be amazing, but yeah.

Hm. That would actually be possible. You could use a backfacing camera that swivel close to a full 180^o sphere and have a Kinect camera situated so it is facing the use. The Kinect camera detects the person's eyes when they sit down (or nose, maybe. 1 detection point would be better than 2 and the nose would always be pointing the way your face is turned) and use that detection point to determine how close they are, what angle their head is tilted, and which way their head is pointing. Have software translate that into a coordiate for the backfacing camera to look and have Windows (or whatever) display the video feed as the wallpaper.

The only issue would be timing. I don't think that Kinect has the ping times necessary to make this seem like it is realtime (and not like webcams a few years ago where you move and then sends that feed 10 seconds later)

Kinect would be the closest you can get I'm betting. That still doesn't solve the issue of two people (say one over your shoulder) looking and seeing an incorrect angle.

Well obviously that isn't a solveable issue without going to the Minority Report interface. But Kinect is pretty damn good at recognizing a person even when another person or object crosses in front of that person. So having two people in front of it wouldn't be a problem for determining the backface camera's angle and zoom level.

This should be your thesis project, Chris. Do it now before someone else does it. A few years early, but who gives a shit? lol. It'd be an awesome exercise.

Josh, I think it'd just be easier to make a legitimate transparent screen instead of...whatever the hell you're suggesting.

And display it at the wrong angle? The exact problem Josh was trying to solve? PERFECT IDEA.

Just when I thought your posts couldn't possibly be more stupid, you surpassed my expectations.