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I woke up this morning after an unusually vivid dream in which I was at a tech conference and stumble upon a demonstration of a new immersive 3d viewing system where you sit down at a table that has a set of glasses with flat semi-transparent screens for lenses, attached to a swing arm (think Pixar’s Luxo Jr lamp) so it can minutely track your head’s rotation and position.  On the table were special sheets of plastic paper that the display could understand the position of, and map showing you data as if it was on the paper.  Bending and wobbling the paper even produced nice distortion of the data, and if you bent the paper too much it would sometimes fail to fully faithfully reproduce the right distortion of the virtual paper.

There was no eyestrain, and although the imagery produced was of fairly large pixel-size, the width and depth of perceived field was nearly the entire size of an office desk.