Video: LM3Labs' AirStrike interactive holograms, because they can
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Apr 22nd 2008 8:27AM
posted Apr 22nd 2008 8:27AM
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Um, ok... More like a reflection than a hologram.
Wow, saw this image early in the morning while I was still groggy. Looked really creepy. Eek.
Are you talking about the girl or the guy's hair? ...HairStrike!
"We're not sure why they did it."
Why WOULDN'T you do it?
This will be the future of computer screens, movies and television]]
Give it about a couple of decades
Hopeully.
But the biggest investors will be sex doll companies/stip clubs e.t.c.
You don't need to pay a stripper hologram to work.
o_O
Have you ever been to a strip club? how is that the same?
Off course I've been to a strip cluc, it's exactly the same.
It's full of women in long trench coats with vintage cameras showing us film strips that they recorded.
Have I been to a strip club?
Psch.
wow that was lame. You can see it being projected onto a clear sheet of glass, and all he can do is make it appear or disappear in two different gradients... WOW!
And that's more than you can do. That's actually rather impressive, even for infant technology.
Rofl merf, its not impressive, i saw this kinda stuff at universal studios about 3 years ago :(
That's how it works. Were you expecting a volumetric display?
"Were you expecting a volumetric display?"
Some companies have already been developing volumetric displays actually, and they are way better than this.
Unless the definition of hologram has changed very recently this is not a hologram:
Holography (from the Greek, όλος-hòlòs whole + γραφή-grafè writing, drawing) is the science of producing holograms; it is a form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions.
As far as I can tell, that is a flat representation of a creepy looking chic.
So...when does it come with nude girls and perfect interaction?
its like star wars.
yes .. bring on the porn.
I was waiting the entire video for him to wave his hands out to the sides and rip her jacket open ...
wow
..only to reveal her true gender.
SDH, your comment is made even better by your username.
Help me obi wan kinobi your my only help!!
ERROR! Bad grammer overload
Uh yeah. You sure got that right.
ERROR! Bad spelling overload.
Grammer is not a word.
"Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You are my only hope.."
ha haa bee ya!!!
@redpill101:..and you got it wrong
Dammit need to learn to type slowly and spell check!!!
I beat you to a grammatically correct and legible quote. :)
Yeah but still a misquote nonetheless. "You're."
Princesses under attack don't have time to avoid contractions.
ill get you next time (en)gadget!!!
Now, can they integrate this with some other animations? Or, even better, with sony's water dragon thing?
Occasionally the holo-shed breaks and everything becomes real.
hahahahah
That was cool and CREEPY.. The girl looked like the A.I character in Resident Evil..."Your all gonna die"....CREEPY little girl.
Now if this was a true hologram that it would really be impressive.
When I saw it called "Air Strike" I thought we were going to get to see her getting bitch-slapped.
Reflection or hologram..you got to admit, it is where we are going. Amazing!
Great! Now Napoleon Dynamite never has to get a real girlfriend.
It's very interesting.
Only in subject's moving to the gesture.
Not a hologram at all. A simple projection. Disney did it better 25 years ago.
Not much interaction, but interesting nonetheless. Guess the technology has a ways to go.
Quite impressive I suppose, but it's just back projection onto glass isn't it? Saw half a dozen of these in a museum in Caesarea, Israel, in Oct 2007, talking figures from history of Caesarea; non-interactive (although you could turn them on and off), but much the same principal.
Reminds me of the Museum Guide idea in the film "The Time Machine"; best bit of a seriously underwhelming film...
Yeah this is definitely a step in a cool direction but Im not sure they can call it a hologram considering its missing that pesky third dimension.
The girl reminds me of... F.E.A.R. :S
So, where's the "hologram" part in that video? O.o
"We imagine this is about as close to a God Complex as any of us non-surgeons will ever get."
Also as close to a real girl as anyone with that haircut whose name isn't Lenny Kravitz will ever get...
...I could be playing COD4 right now.
At 01:26 it looks like he is leaning in to kiss her.
I noticed that too.... so.disturbing.
The people that find this amazing are easily pleased. First of all, this is *not* a hologram. Second, I can recreate this with some smoke glass, a projector and a webcam (and my computer) in less than a day. Come to think of it, maybe I will. If only I can muster up the energy to create something as lame and useless as this.