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

In 2022, I introduced you to James Brown, the Weta Workshop graphics technologist whose hobby is gathering astonishing displays. Now, he’s built a crystal shot filled with shimmering, spinning volumetric airy — and of people he’s playing Doom connected it.

But not conscionable immoderate Doom. Voxel Doom, wherever each dot of the game’s graphics lives successful 3D space, conscionable similar the dots of the volumetric show he’s created.

As helium explains connected YouTube, the carnal illusion is reasonably simple: “It’s similar a hologram fan, but alternatively of spinning a 1D portion to marque a 2D image, it spins a 2D sheet to marque a 3D image.” On his Mastodon, helium breaks it down a spot much with ocular aids:

Brown’s been moving connected this for implicit a twelvemonth now: if I’m not mistaken, helium introduced the task successful August 2023 by channeling his interior Doc Brown, saying “If my calculations are correct, erstwhile this babe hits 300rpm you’re going to spot immoderate superior shit.” But he’s since discovered it needs to rotation a bully spot faster than that for a creaseless image, peculiarly erstwhile he’s trying to movie it. So support your fingers away.

You tin travel his advancement on his Mastodon, wherever he’s not just playing Doom — you tin find volumetric lunar landers and skulls and dino heads, for example. He conscionable published this to his YouTube too:

And yes, they tin play Doom.