I'm not quite sure what it means by "hologram"? I'm assuming it's a projection onto a flat surface that gives the illusion of 3D, or something of the sort? | |
They had a hologram chat during the election day "tally"(If I recall correctley...) | |
I thought this would be about the CNN "holograms" they used, but this is better. I would love to be able to have a hologram... thing to chat with friends. Probably would cost tons though. | |
I would enjoy this. Get into an arguement on the phone? Just punch their hologram! I would also dress up in costumes every time some one called me or vice versa. | |
I can see this technology being hugely advantageous in the classroom. Experiments could be given in 3D rather than just in film, and students could get right up close to it without OH&S issues. Anatomy and dissections would be much the same. | |
Obviously very recent news. Wikipedia sums the technology quite succinctly here - there even used to be a PDF on the musion site with some diagrams of the setup, but it looks like they've buried it now. If you look hard though you can find a slightly more technical overview of the tech like this one though, with less of an over-abundance of sales-speak that must say '3d' twice in every sentence and such insightful gems like:
The Musion holograms are neither 3-dimensional, nor are they able to be projected into thin air - the two key qualities that we generally expect from (real) sci-fi holograms from the ones in Star Wars to the ones in Dead Space. These, alas are still a long way away it seems. Other modern tech going for the hologram monicker: | |
Like MaCoil said, I can see the possibilities for world education broadening. Hooray for science! | |
Yeah, but can you fuck them? I'm just asking. | |
Oh gods, I read this article and all I can think now is Holographic Telemarketing. It's a scary prospect ain't it? | |
OH GOD! They'll be able to see that you're not actually frying something and it's just your sink on. No more faking murders over the telephone. However, you could answer the phone Naked. This would lead to a huge improvement and boom in the phone-sex market.. or a possible decrease..not quite sure. | |
Yeah, but if the answer to my question is 'Yes', at least you could get some payback. | |
No offense, but it'll never happen. Or, not until it's dirt-cheap technology. I dunno how it is in Austrailia, but like he said: "This is cutting-edge stuff. One of the main uses we envisage is celebrity cameos at big conferences or concerts... a number of musicians we're talking to want to see this technology used to provide live cameo performances from stars at their concerts." EDIT:
Indeed, hooray for science! | |
Oh, I know that, but I can dream... | |
I can too. Seriously, though, it would be nice if education was given more attention than the latest nipple to grace half time at the Generic Bowl XXXXIIIIIIIII. | |
wow this would make yugioh for real XD | |
Thank you, I was wondering how the hell they got it to work. | |
And now phone sex is going to improve massively :) but then the damn telemarketers will phone and look at me | |
Hey Lad. Assuming 94' was your year of birth, you're to young for that kind of stuff. Just you wait. It's good. Goooood. | |
Well I'm allowed to be horny, teenage hormones and what not - cam sex is great - but cam+audio thats just awesome! | |
It frightens me that this thread turned to phone sex. Am I the only one thinking of how it's going to be extremely annoying to be asleep and have a 6 foot tall man appear in your bedroom whenever you get a phone call? | |
Hell, I thought my question was valid. | |
would we really need a holographic communication device? | |
The same could be said of text messaging but that caught on pretty fast. | |
Text messages were rammed down our throat by clever marketing making it appear to be "hip" and "cool, yo". Sometimes even "the shit". But the cold, sad reality is that text messages are just a way of reducing the amount of tower bandwidth used without reducing the amount the phone company is charging you for it. I don't know if anyone else here is from Canada, but recently the government had to step in and forcibly say, "no, you cannot charge people 10 cents for every received text message, regardless of its source, just because they haven't subscribed to some $5/month 'text messaging' package". Take for instance a typical text message that is sent "hi want to see spiderman 2nite?" Converted to binary (as it would be transmitted), that looks like this: 0110100001101001001000000111011101100001011011100 ...Which is roughly a small fraction of a microsecond of the bandwidth an audio conversation would require. You can add to that bit above some minuscule amount of header and authentication data, but it wouldn't be much longer. With per-second billing (which, for instance, Fido provides, the time it would take to say that phrase would be worth a couple of cents at best, assuming it wasn't during the evening or weekend, in which case it would be completely free. But as a text message, it might be 10 cents. And apparently these assclowns (Bell) can't afford to set up a fiber optic network, despite the millions the government granted them for that. What a crock of shit. There's gonna be a reckoning, I tell ya... | |
I can now imagine Holographic shotguns... On topic... Neat-O! | |
Sex Ed would never be the same. | |
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Real-Time Holographic Communication Could Soon Be a Reality
From Star Wars to Dead Space, holograms are a staple of the science-fiction genre, but it could become science-fact in the next five years according to experts.
Holography isn't exactly new, having been invented in 1947 by a Hungarian physicist, but technical limitations have always meant that any holographic appearances, such as Prince Charles' appearance at the World Future Energy Summit, had to be pre-recorded. However, advances in video compression and high speed broadband internet mean that real-time holographic communication may be commonplace in as little as five years' time.
Talking to UK newspaper The Telegraph, Ian O'Connell, director of Musion, a company pioneering the use of real-time holography, said, "This is cutting-edge stuff. One of the main uses we envisage is celebrity cameos at big conferences or concerts... a number of musicians we're talking to want to see this technology used to provide live cameo performances from stars at their concerts."
O'Connell went on to suggest other uses might include long distance learning, or education programs in the developing world.
There are a couple of snags that make the five-year time-scale seem a little ambitious, though. First and foremost is the guaranteed 20 megabit a second minimum broadband speed required, as well as the staggering £250,000 price tag for the equipment and the extra room needed to house it all.
O'Connell acknowledged these issues, but remained confident that it was only a matter of time, saying, "It's going to necessitate a change in architectural design for residential homes for it to be embraced fully. It's going to need a room that can accommodate the screening and delivery technology. But I think we're five years away from holograms being a ubiquitous, affordable tool."
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