Lippert's new technology can create animated 3D table-top visualizations by structuring light. But this isn't a hologram being projected into thin air, like Leia's "Star Wars" scene.

It has a 22” rotating platform and can hold up to 100 lbs. It’s perfect for creating still images and 360-degree product animations for eCommerce, quality control and product development.

Using 3D and 2D animation, 360° spherical cinema-quality video, sound sphere audio and sensor fusion techniques, the screen is now a window into a story that unfolds all around you.

Web site The Warehouse describes how to make your own 360 degree photography on the super cheap. All you've got to do is put together your own rotating surface, mark off equal rotation points, and ...