Star Wars style Holographic Display Technology is here!!

• Jan 13, 2010

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http://www.hvrl.ics.keio.ac.jp/paper/pdf/IECON2008_hiroyo.pdf

This is some incredible stuff!! The technology has actually been around for a couple years, but this is by far the most revealing paper on the subject that I've seen so far..

 

• Jan 13, 2010

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The resolution is too horridly low to be able to make out a face. That buzzing is a nasty side effect.

 

• Jan 13, 2010

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Not speaking about the power needed from the laser, heheh .....

 

• Jan 17, 2010

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Good work!

 

• Jan 17, 2010

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^Very true.. the term was only used as a way of describing the technology. It's not actually a hologram.

 

• Jan 17, 2010

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I'm afraid I must take full responsibility for that.. In the actual paper, they don't call it a hologram. I just called it that in the title of the thread.. But my intention wasn't to mislead, I just thought there were some similarities.

 

• Jan 18, 2010

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Supposing we had a laser capable of 30khz and a good scanner set of 30kpps, and a framerate of 30hz, that leaves only 1000 points per frame. That is a grid of only 10x10x10, or if you just drew a surface in 3d, 30x30 pixels. There's little or no control over the brightness or color, so you're left with a black and white (NO GRAY) image the resolution of a typical windows icon. It's certainly cool, but it's not for faces.

 

• Jan 19, 2010

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In the words of Popular Science in 1949:

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons.

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I don't want to give up on this technology quite yet, but it's not great in its current form.

-Trevor