Researchers at the University of Arizona recently tested hologram technology by projecting 10 by 10 inch 3-D images of a person in another room.
“What we have come up with is a new technique to build three-dimensional telepresence, which means that we can take objects from one location and show them in another location in 3-D in near-real time,” said Nasser Peyghambarian, professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona.
Cool! This sounds mighty Star Wars-esque to us. When the film released in 1977, space ships, other worlds and hologram teleconferencing seemed light years away. Has 2010 made these fantasies a reality? Think about it.
Last month Richard Branson‘s commercial space fight company, Virgin Galactic, built it’s official runway to outerspace and not long before that scientists found that a planet called the Gliese 581 has very similar characteristics to Earth. Now experts inch closer to hologram technology as a means of communication in the future.
They even have plans to one up the George Lucas version. “Instead of displaying miniaturized, monochromatic versions of the projected objects, they want to display images that are human-size, full-color and high-resolution.”
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Could hologram technology turn Thanksgiving dinners into this, come 2050? I sure hope not.
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