Here’s a video from the Object Based Media Group at MIT highlighting how standard consumer technology can be used to transmit Holographic images over the internet. Although the images are limited we have certainly come a long way in a very short period of time. The CNN Holograms from the 2008 Election coverage was reputed to have cost over $1million per location. I would assume that for a fraction of that in the coming years organisartions and inviduals will be able to reproduce a similar capability.
Take a look at the wired article here
The red hologram is jerkier and has much lower resolution than the one in Star Wars that sparked the public fascination with 3-D holograms in the 1970s. In fact, it kind of looks like a red blob on a staticky TV. But it’s 30 times faster than a telepresence device created in 2010 by University of Arizona researchers (SN Online: 12/4/10).
“I think it’s an important milestone because they were able to get to 15 frames per second, which is almost real time,” says physicist Nasser Peyghambarian, who led the Arizona research. “The quality is not as high, but hopefully it will get better in the future.”
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