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Holograms coming to a TV near you
By Nick Farrell
Oct 9, 2008 | 3 Comments
Tags: Holograms | television

At last - proper 3D Star Wars chess for the masses!!!

Holographic TV could be the next major thing for the entertainment industry.

With the Japanese Government putting lots of cash into three-dimensional, virtual-reality television with the aim of having such technology available by 2020, the latest development seems to have come from the big brains at the University of Arizona.

Dr Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics and lasers at the university’s Optical Sciences department, told CNN that scientists have broken a barrier by making the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory.

This is the first stage for any type of moving holographic technology. The way it works presently is not suitable for 3D images, however.

Boffins have produced displays that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes however they need to change multiple times each second to get to television quality.

The University of Arizona team has been working on advancing hologram technology since 1990. He believes that much of the difficulty in creating a holographic set has now been overcome.

He envisages a 3D set like a screen on the wall that shows 3-D images. All the image writing lasers will be behind the wall or it could be like a horizontal panel on a table with holographic writing underneath it. A bit like the chess set in Star Wars.

 

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SceptreCore
Oct 9, 2008 1:38 PM
Yeah but when do we get a Holodecks?

God knows the fantasies I would bring to life! :P
majestic975
Oct 9, 2008 4:18 PM
Imagine what this will do for those late night "TV ads". LOL
ahsoka
Nov 8, 2008 11:18 PM
I saw 3D hologram projectors/projections on CNN's coverage of the US presidential election this week. They looked awesome.
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