Researchers at University of British Columbia showed a cube (pCubee) collected of five LCD panels giving impression that shelters three-dimensional object. Based on effect aquarium pCubee is fruit of two years of work by scholars who utilized technology OpenSceneGraph and NVIDIA PhysX. For image to have relief, it is required that data contains 3D information. So cube is utilized primarily with AutoCAD or 3D models classics.

Cube is small sufficient to held in his hands and he reacts to external movements. So, it is possible to utilize stylus to control few objects in image and move with direction of rotation of camera to adjust view and edit contents of box. It should be said that one problem of this system is that 3D is visible only from restricted viewing angle, which needs change in perspective when you move cube. This comes from fact that researchers depend on principle of parallax, which is a means utilized by our brain to recognize depth, and which needs that every eye gets very precise image. Other drawback is that edges of cube are relatively big because of use of LCD, problem that scientists hope to solve using OLED screens in next version.

Researchers plan to suggest pCubee to museums. Few applications of general public are also being studied, but one doubts that one way to use handheld that cube any time soon.