Emerging Technologies: Holographics
Latest Holographic News From Around The Web
|
May 4, 2012
|
|
TeleHuman delivers life-size hologram-like telepods
|
|
Telepod | Holographic Communication | Telehuman | 3d Holographics | Holographic Domains
|
|
So you think that video calls with the Samsung Galaxy S3‘s 1.9-megapixel front facing camera is the bee’s knees? Well, sorry to burst your South Korean bubble, but Professor Roel Vertegaal’s 3D cylindrical display surely blows all current forms of videoconferencing out of the water. Known as the TeleHuman, this particular display will enable folks in different locations to hold a video conference as though they were in front of one another. You will be able to hold conversations with a life-size 3D holographic image of another person, and even better is, you need not worry about getting a whiff of the body odor especially after your contact has just finished a gym session.
|
|
April 19, 2012
|
|
Dr. Dre Wants Marvin Gaye & Others For Holographic Shows
|
|
Holographic Celebrities | Holographic Shows | Hologram Concert | Hologram Tours | Holographic Domains
|
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg will beam up the Tupac hologram again for the upcoming second weekend of Coachella, but the producer and now-occasional rapper has his sight set on a couple of other big names: Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye.
TMZ caught up with the good doctor outside of a restaurant in Los Angeles and asked him how he felt about the "Tupac" performance. He said he was thrilled with the reception to the digital rebirth of the rap legend and confirmed rumors that he was mulling taking "Tupac" on tour.
But that's not all he said: Dre said he would be interested in bringing Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye back to the stage. The news comes during a week in which countless news outlets have posted lists of who they'd like to see hologram-ed next, so it's interesting to see Dre play into the media hype surrounding his new pet project.
|
|
April 17, 2012
|
|
The Ghost Of Hologram Tupac Is Going On Tour!
|
|
Hologram Tupac | Holographic Shows | Holographic Concert | Hologram Tours | Hologram Domain Names
|
We're predicting that this is the start of something BIG!
If U loved watching hologram Tupac Shakur perform live at Coachella this past Sunday, then you'll be pleased to hear that Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre are considering going on tour with their old friend's digital likeness.
Despite dying over 15 years ago, the crowd's reaction and subsequent internet buzz proved that fans are still polarized by the iconic rapper's presence. Although we think concert goers will line up for the proposed show, the tour will be no easy feat for Digital Domain Media Group Inc. — the company that created the hologram.
|
|
April 17, 2012
|
|
Tupac Coachella hologram: Behind the technology
|
|
Holographic Shows | Holographic Concert | Hologram Tupac | Coachella | Holographic Domain Names
|
Tupac Shakur reunited with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg Sunday night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival - at least that's what it looked like. The late rap star's likeness was recreated in hologram form for the music festival with some impressive technology.
The hologram of Shakur was created by special effects production house Digital Domain, a spokesperson for Dr. Dre told MTV. Digital Domain is the company behind the computer-generated imagery that transformed Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." The company's artists also won an Academy Award for the blockbuster film "Titanic."
|
|
March 24, 2012
|
|
Beam Me Over Scotty: Holographic Pastors by 2030?
|
|
3d Holograms | Holographic Communication | Holographic Telepresence | Holographic Domain Names
|
The field of technology could be revolutionized and religion renovated in the 2020's by the normalization of holographic imagery. This technology trend in various forms of holographic imagery is being used to extend the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the earth. Peyghambarian (2010) suggests "holographic telepresence means we can record a three-dimensional image in one location and show it in another location, in real-time, anywhere in the world." This telepresence, as it is called, is simply the "beaming a physical presence of a person to remote locations and…could be the next revolution in communication technology".
Holograms are being used in business meetings across the world with companies such as Cisco and UK-based Musion Systems Inc. in India who has conducted over 1,000 meetings with this technology (Digital Leadership Network, 2008). Perry (2009) says that Britain's Prince Charles gave a pre-recorded holographic speech at a conference and highlighted the carbon dioxide pollution that he would have emitted if he had flown to the meeting. He continues by suggesting that "holographic appearances appear nearly identical to the real thing. The images are to scale. They move naturally." The only problem that she identifies is the "occasional light flicker" that "reminds the (people) that they're watching a projection."
|
|
March 15, 2012
|
|
Microsoft's Beamatron - 3d Holographics And AR
|
|
3d Holographics | Augmented Reality | Holographic Communication | Holo Names
|
Developers from Microsoft Research, the development wing of Microsoft that focuses on emerging technologies, have been experimenting with a new system they call Beamatron. The system uses the Xbox 360 Kinect motion-capture camera to help generate digital images that are projected onto a physical surface using augmented reality. In this sense, the Beamatron system lives up to its name. Developers believe that the system could have significant implications for a variety of industries, especially communications, where the system could be used to facilitate holographic communications between people.
Check out the video at th e link provided.
|
|
March 14, 2012
|
|
10 ways technology will change travel by 2020
|
|
Holographic Phone | Holographic Communication | Holographic Meetings | Holographic Domain Names
|
Let’s simplify: first of all, we have had, for a long time, wristwatches that power themselves by the regular motion of the wearer. Today, cell phone companies are already unveiling kinetic motion-powered cell phones…meaning the scourge of battery life may plague you no more.
As for holographic phone calls, this is something just about every major cell phone player is putting R&D money into — I guess people just love that Star Wars scene with Obi-Wan coming out of R2-D2 too much not to make it happen.
|
|
February 29, 2012
|
|
Concept - iPad 3 And 3D Holograms
|
|
3d Holograms | Holographic Tablet | iPad 3 Concept | Hologram Names
|
Finally, and most unlikely, is when the iPad enters the third dimension with hologram players in a football game, and the emergence of game controllers out of the sides via projected images on the desk. While this is pretty innovative, and unlocks a whole new set of scenarios for its use, implementations like this are physically impossible on such a large scale, and probably the furthest away in terms of Apple's R&D calendar.
Check out the video at th e link provided.
|
|
January 13, 2012
|
|
CES 2012: Holographic iPad illusion from InnoVision
|
|
3d Holograms | Innovision | CES 2012 | Projected Holograms | Hologram Domains
|
|
A mirage can be a very dangerous thing in the desert, but out here in Las Vegas, this is one mirage that I do not mind seeing materialize in the real world – a holographic iPad. This illusion from InnoVision of Taiwan relies on a glass cage enclosure to project a hologram above any device, where their in-house technology would in turn let you view 2D videos as though they were 3D holograms.
|
|
January 7, 2012
|
|
Microsoft builds a 3D hologram that you can touch
|
|
3d Holograms | Interactive Holograms | Microsoft | Hologram Technology | Hologram Domains
|
|
Once they've constructed an entire holodeck, perhaps the point will be moot, but Microsoft Research is presently working on some pretty clever 3D holograms, too. By combining the age-old optical illusion of the mirascope toy with a modern light field display, a team of researchers have managed to make a moving 3D image float in midair at 15 frames per second, emulating 192 different viewpoints at a time.
|
|
December 31, 2011
|
|
The Future of Business Includes Holographic Communication
|
|
Holographic Communication | Holographic Imagery | Holographic Technology | Holo Names
|
|
Soon, we will have desirable itsy-bitsy devices that operate by scream and eventually by concept. The storage capacity will be better than the library of congress even for a scheme the size of a mini-cell phone. And you will have holographic projection technologies using spectral imagery. honest mediate what this will mean for your business endeavors. So, I guess the ask you should be asking since all this is coming lickety-split is; Have you considered how you will exercise this technology to do all you do better in your business?
|
|
December 22, 2011
|
|
Meet the country’s first holographic NHS staff member
|
|
Holographic Nurse | Virtual Nurse | UCLH | Holographic Domain Names
|
Meet the country’s first holographic NHS staff member, a “virtual nurse” who warns patients about deadly superbugs such as MRSA.
Reflected through a high-definition video projector, the image is beamed into the air producing a crystal-clear image that tells people to wash their hands.
|
|
December 21, 2011
|
|
Rite Aid to unveil 3-D holographic displays
|
|
Holographic Kiosk | Rite Aid | Provision Interactive Technologies | 3d Holographics | Holographic Domain Names
|
Provision Interactive Technologies announces partnership in 2012
Rite Aid is planning to roll out 3-D holographic display kiosks in its stores next year, according to the kiosks' manufacturer.
In a letter to shareholders, Provision Interactive Technologies president and CEO Curt Thornton wrote that it would place its 3-D Reward Centers in Rite Aid stores, starting with 200 stores and, according to the agreement between the two companies, eventually installing the kiosks in up to 4,800 stores. Rite Aid currently has 4,679 stores.
|
|
December 16, 2011
|
|
3-D Holographic Tech. Provides Detailed Human Intelligence
|
|
3d Holographics | Holographic Technology | Tactical Digital Hologram | Holographic Maps | Holo Domains
|
More than 10,000 maps enhanced with 3D holographic technology have been fielded to Special Forces units in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Imagine going from looking at the outside of a building, to seeing the internal workings of its electrical system simply by walking around a display case. The sophistication of 3-D holographic technology allows just that.
For Soldiers on the battlefield, the level of intelligence they're getting about a dangerous location -- like a site they're about to ambush or a room where U.S. interests may be located -- can't come to them in a more safe, realistic way.
It's called Tactical Digital Hologram technology, and more than 10,000 units, which at first glance look like flat plastic maps, have already been fielded to Special Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Research engineers at the Army Research Laboratory's Simulation and Training Technology Center in Orlando, Fla., are investing in commercially available 3-D holographic technology. As the Defense Department's managing agency for all such programs, the STTC is the first organization to actually evaluate and compare 3-D holographic static images against conventional topographic data that troops currently rely on for planning and mission rehearsal.
|
|
December 7, 2011
|
|
Samsung unveils flexible tablet concept video
|
|
Samsung | Concept Phone | Holographic Phone | Holographic Tablet | Holo Domains
|
If Samsung is to be believed, future tablets will be transparent, completely flexible and be able to project 3D holograms.
Concept videos are curious things - companies get to create their vision for a device that one day might exist, in a universe where holding a plastic screen in front of someone's face isn't regarded as anti-social
|
|
December 6, 2011
|
|
The world’s first 3-D holographic fashion show
|
|
Holographic Fashion Show | Holographic Shows | Holographic Exhibit | Holographic Domains
|
The show required construction of one of the largest fashion stages ever created to showcase this innovative event.
It is a complete holographic show presented without using actual live models, but rather by utilizing large 3-D holographic projections to achieve exciting 3-D holographic images of models in motion. Stefan Eckert’s Fashion Show was sponsored by Bvlgari and Porsche and premiered in front of an audience of 850 at Kampnagel Theater in Hamburg, Germany.
|
|
November 6, 2011
|
|
Scorsese rousingly endorses 3-D, says holograms next
|
|
Holograms | Martin Scorsese | 3d Movies | Holographic Interaction | 3d Media | Hologram Domains
|
The helmer behind gritty crime stories including "The Departed," and "Mean Streets", Martin Scorsese says that not only is 3-D the future of storytelling, but that he also hopes the movies over the next few years will become ever-more interactive. Like, hologram-interactive.
"As I sit here now, I see you in 3-D," the director behind the upcoming "Hugo" told an audience in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday. "So why belittle that part of our existence? Why not use it? "
Scorsese said that he expected 3-D to be just the first step in 21st century cinematic storytelling. "If everything moves along and there's no major catastrophe were headed toward holograms," he said, adding, "They do it in theater," citing how an actor might walk into the audience while in character. "You have to think that way. Don't let the fashion and the economics inhibit you."....
|
|
October 20, 2011
|
|
Microsoft debuts Holodesk to fiddle with balls
|
|
HoloDesk | Holographics | 3d Interaction | Holographic Display
|
Microsoft has released a video of what’s it’s calling a Holodesk – a 3D holographic display that allows users to virtually pick up and use software constructs such as balls and blocks.
The system, built by Microsoft Research in Cambridge, uses a webcam and Kinect technology to follow the user’s hands and face, adds a set of beam splitters to measure depth, then uses custom graphics algorithms to match the signals. The user has to look through a half-silvered mirror to see the images, and the whole thing is around the size of a small filing cabinet.
|
|
October 18, 2011
|
|
Hologram Table - One Cool Table Setting
|
|
Hologram Table | Holograms | 360° Holographic
|
|
If you think today's 3-D technology in movies and TV shows is cool, wait until you see your first hologram table. Funded by DARPA, the Defense Department's research arm, for battle planning, the Urban Photonic Sandtable Display produces a 360°, 3-D image (no glasses needed). Zebra Imaging, the company that is developing the technology, says it'll take at least another three years before this table is set for business applications like surgical planning or even gaming, but ...
|
|
September 17, 2011
|
|
Apple working on a full-size hologram TV to launch next year?
|
|
Hologram TV | Holograms | Holographic Television | Holo TV | 3d Holographic TV
|
After the iPhone and the iPad, could the world's biggest pacesetter be about to spring another surprise?
The Apple TV could be available in the US by Christmas next year, predicts Ben Kunz, director of Internet strategy firm Mediassociates, writing in Bloomberg Business Week.
In his own blog, Thoughtgadgets.com, he says the triggers for the article were rumours that Apple's pipeline suppliers were gearing up to build Apple TV units - and a patent that Apple won last year for a new form of 3D.
"The patent provides a wonderful analysis of what is wrong with current 3D systems: users wear expensive goggles, awkward, and without goggles two or more people can't experience 3D at one time."
|
|
September 17, 2011
|
|
Hologram tech in car's back seat
|
|
Hologram Technology | Hologram Motion | Holographic Projection
|
Forget 'I spy' and hand-held video games, a team of developers is working on technology that will entertain little ones in the back seat with holograms controlled by motion sensors.
The technology, which is similar to Microsoft's Kinetic system, is being developed by the Games and Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (or GEElab as it is more affectionately known) at Victoria's RMIT University.
Three-dimensional images are projected into the back seat to entertain passengers, who control the action with gestures rather than hand-held devices.
|
|
July 26, 2011
|
|
Now Playing: The Holographic Marketing Communicator
|
|
Holographic Assitant | Virtual Assistant | Holographic Greeter
|
The holographic Virtual Assistant is positioned near the store’s entrance and is a high-tech communications platform that serves up in-store information and personal greetings in a decidedly unique fashion.
“Our Virtual Greeter is an essential part of the “wow factor” we have built into our newest store and serves as ambassador of the new Duane Reade customer experience,” explained Paul Tiberio, Senior Vice President of Merchandising & Chief Marketing Officer for Duane Reade, in a company statement. “The virtual aspect captures shoppers’ attention from the moment they enter the store – engaging their visual and auditory senses. And because the Virtual Assistant is so compelling, shoppers are receptive to the wealth of information she provides, enabling them to get the big picture of everything the store has to offer in a very personal and exciting way.”
|
|
April 15, 2011
|
|
Jagermeister turns Alice Cooper into a hologram
|
|
4d Holographic | Hologram | Holographic Shows
|
Alice Cooper is set to make a dramatic return to the UK as part of an innovative 4D holographic, interactive stage experience presented by German alcohol brand Jagermeister.
The ‘Jägermeister Ice Cold Event’, which will take place at London’s Battersea Power Station, will showcase Alice Cooper and his original band members as they appear together for the first time in the UK since 1972.
|
|
February 1, 2011
|
|
Manchester Airport introduces hologram staff
|
|
Hologram Staff | Holographic | Holograms | Hologram Airport
|
MANCHESTER Airport has introduced futuristic holograms of customer service staff to inform passengers of travel restrictions.
The two holograms have been created from real customer service staff employees John Walsh and Julie Caper and is being trialled in an effort to cut security queues.
The holograms will greet passengers before they enter the security search area to explain the liquid restrictions and remind travellers to have their boarding cards ready.
|
|
December 27, 2011
|
|
Holograms on cell phones coming in five years, IBM predicts
|
|
3d Holograms | Cell Phone Hologram | Holographic Phone | Holo Phone | Holograms
|
In five years, cell phones will be able to produce holograms of friends and colleagues talking and moving in real time, IBM researchers say.
"We see 3D [video] technology moving into the cell phone, which will have the ability to transmit information off the cell phone to create a 3D hologram, projecting the hologram on any surface in life size," said Paul Bloom, IBM's CTO for telecommunications research, in a recent interview.
With a cell phone hologram, a user would be able to walk next to a hologram of a friend, or a worker could project an enlarged 3D image of a product needing repair to walk inside it and detect problems, Bloom said. "The repair person could go inside the device instead of looking it up in a manual," he said. "It has lots of implications."
|
|
November 3, 2011
|
|
Holographic communication flickers into life in Arizona
|
|
Holographic | Telepresence | Hologram Telepresence | Holograhic Communications
|
Long anticipated by science fiction, real-time holographic communication and 'telepresence' are finally within our grasp
Thanks to scientists at the University of Arizona, real-world holograms have finally started to catch up with their fictional cousins. In a paper published today in Nature, they report the transmission of moving 3D images from one place to another in almost real time. This means it may eventually be possible to communicate with moving 3D images of friends or colleagues who are on the other side of the world. Surgeons will be able to use the technology to step into virtual operating theatres in other cities, and films will become ever more immersive.
"Holographic telepresence means we can record a 3D image in one location and show it in another location, in real-time, anywhere in the world," said Nasser Peyghambarian, who led the team behind the new technology.
|
|
August 26, 2009
|
|
3D Holographic Projection - The Future of Advertising
|
|
Holographic Projection | Holographic Advertising | 3d Holographics | Holograms
|
With many of the latest big budget cinema releases being available in 3D, and everyone talking about the 3D future of television, many eyes are starting to focus on 3D hologram projections...without the glasses!
Where does this technology originate from?
3D holographic projection technology is loosely based on an illusionary technique called “Peppers Ghost”, and was first used in Victorian theatres across London in the 1860s. Pepper's Ghost was typically used to create ghost-like figures on stage. Hidden from the audience's view, an actor dressed in a ghostly costume would stand facing an angled plate of glass. The audience would be able to see the glass, but not the actor directly. Specifically angled lighting would reflect the actor's image into the plate of glass, a transparent ghost like reflection would appear in front of the audience. Cutting or fading the lighting could also add to the ghostly effect.
How is this technology used today?
With the use of the latest HD projectors, CGI animation, specialist HD film techniques and special effects created in post production, Pepper's Ghost technology has been upgraded to the 21st century. Instead of a real object or person's reflection appearing on a plate of glass, high definition video and CGI animation is beamed directly onto a specially designed, chemically treated transparent film via a high power HD projector. Although much more expensive, this modern approach results in a much clearer, believable hologram projection.
|
|
May 5, 2007
|
|
Holographic Projection Technologies Of The Future
|
|
Holographic Projection | 3d Holographics | Holography | Holograms | Telepresence | Holographic Communication | Holo Names
|
|
History and Projected uses of Holography - GREAT Information!!
|
|
