Video: LM3Labs' AirStrike interactive holograms, because they can
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Not impressive at all. It's refracted off of a sheet of glass. You can see the "controller" reflection in it.
What I want to see is a volumetric display. Multiple OLED screens sandwiched together to give you a spatial array of pixels. On that you can then display whatever you want. Add some touch screens to the outside of it and you've got something really awesome.
Pretty much like a really Hi-Def version of this: http://www.jamesclar.com/product/2005/3dcubewhite/pic1.html Of course not with actual LEDs in space held up by a metal framework, but OLED screen "layers".
Just seems like a 2d projection onto a pane of glass. How is that a hologram?
Next stop: upgrading haunted houses....
No, building the "hive" and making her red.
From Wikipedia: "It is common to confuse volumetric displays with holograms, particularly in science fiction works such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Red Dwarf, and Quantum Leap."
Scott Bakula wasn't anywhere in that video!
Bring back Populous and hook it up to this device!
The most important question now is: Can it make me cum?
This day will go down in history. The day all the geeks of the world united to bring forth the technology were hot women can be made to appear and disapppear out of thin air with a wave of the hand.
i thought holograms were 3-d...
Where's his finger going.......
Actually, I thought the girl was kinda cute in a waif-ish Audrey Hepburn kinda way. Looks like the dude with the bad hair makes her "orb" like in "Charmed" (which my WIFE watches...not me, no way). And, yeah, it is two dimensional, but if they can get that 3rd dimension in there somehow we'll all be having fun one way or another with the new technology. It's weird cuz like Popular Science was saying (long ago) that by now we would have holographic TV and movies in our homes and we aren't anywhere close. But we do have text-messaging...which to me is somehow akin to the cavemen carrying the wheel to the beer bash in the Bud commercial. Yea, I'm in my 50's but unless you have witnessed the progress of technology from slide rules to computers and vacuum tube radios to I-Pods you can't really appreciate it fully.
that's peppers ghost
I would have rather seen an older girl and then to see him moving his hands up and just having the girl's clothes vanish. That's what I'm talkin' 'bout! Porn is the only motive that will commercialize all relevant technologies.
Its cool. But not there yet.
I build a volumetric display out of a untrasonic humidifier and a projector. Worked ok. Looked better than this.
Going to work won't be so difficult now, one more point for me! Job 43,094,078 Nelson 7, I'm catching up!
The projection technology is called Vikuity, which was developed by 3M. It works by applying a film to the back side of a pane of glass and using a standard projector to create the image. A touch screen interface can be added as well. Cool tech, but it has been out some 3-5 years. My assumption is that they are trying to call attention to their interface technology, which is less than impressive.