AR and VR are interesting evolutions in the technology space. But beyond AR and VR is the evolution that will be Holograms. Based on a recent conversation with Alex Ledante (yes, interesting conversation in comments make it into my blog all the time!) we discussed the reality of Holograms. First, is the broad concept of the project an object that appears to have permanence in space. Traditionally projectors project to a physical object. A hologram projector would need to project to a point in space that had no wall or another object on which the project. The reality of projects is luminous and wall space. Interactive systems can easily be created where you mix projector and camera, such as what Keecker offers, providing a screen (projected) and touch interaction.
Now that is an initial step towards the concept of holograms, but it is not to that point. First, today the reality of holograms is they are projected between two specific points. In part that is because of the “luminous” needed to project a holographic image. It is more luminous than the majority of protectors support today. In part because of heat. Projecting light creates heat. Projecting a hologram today produces heat. That would be lots and lots of heat produced to generate that 3d image. Projectors are going to get better. Cooler and able to present Holograms. The someday uses include remote meetings and things like that where you can have a holographic seat at the table remotely.
That said, that requires the ability to capture a hologram. Now you find the reason why Holograms aren’t as widespread today as portable projectors. To create a hologram, you need a 360-degree view of an object, person or landscape. The larger the object to become a holographic image, the more camera you will need. Right now the minimum would be two 270 degrees camera a set distance apart. They, the cameras would create an overlapping forward image. That would need to be stitched together and the saved so that it could be presented. There would be a natural lag (between creation and projection) causing slight irregularities with remote viewing of a hologram. By the way, to tie in a previous post, the reality of 5g, would remove some of the latency for remote holograms.
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So much of technical information behind a hologram. Thanks for the share DocAnderson.
You are most welcome, thank you for the kind words.
That is not far in the future! It definetly will happen.
I suspect this is less than 10 years from us.
I remember when cam streaming had lags and dropped packets all over the place, so if holograms became a thing then I expect the same issues to repeat
stitching and other source side lags are a different issue
Ergo the removal of latency in the rise of 5g!
If you are fixing all the problems before you send, that is removal of latency but not by the network…
assuming that I am not building a cloud application of course. If it is a cloud aware application removing the network latency removes latency from the application.
granted, but why would your holocam have to use the cloud for processing? well, I suppose it wouldn’t be a bad idea…
The new world of edge computing! 🙂
distributed processing sounds like a good idea, but it might have a big downside…
I think I agree and will say that you are 100% right with what is available today. There are things coming that change that reality. Then, your statement won’t be right any longer.
Edge is coming.
way back in the day, it was assumed there would be a few supercomputers and we’d all timeshare on them. how strange if we were to return to that model…
I once gave a talk where I talked about the evolution of computing.
1940 to 1970 was the time of mainframes.
170-980 was the rise of minicomputers
1980 brings the birth of the Personal Computer
1990 brings the birth of the internet and the expansion of client-server
2000 brings the birth of distributed computer (grid computing)
2010 brings the evolution of the cloud, which is really just a few supercomputers with brand names (Azure, AWS, IBMCloud, Oracle Cloud, Google).
2020 the rise of 5g and IoE, the 4th Industrial Revolution.
I was booed. But 1/2 the audience lined up afterward to ask me why I felt we had come full circle.
unfortunately, VAX/VMS is unlikely to make a similar comeback…
Mini systems become Sun Microsystems servers.
I think it is interesting that their biggest customer (sun’s) bought them (Oracle.)_
but Sun is running some form of Unix, right? yeah, it’s still command line…
Yes, sun has a flavor of Unix and now they are also offering the Oracle flavor of Linux.
I wish I could get my win apps to run on some flavor of unix
That would be a ported win app on a mac then 🙂 I mean if the goal is run on a flavor of Unix.
I want to run on a flavor of unix to get more RAM, not less
Sounds interesting. I have not seen hologram screenings yet.
Someday our movies will be Holograms!
I agree with you. Researchers find something new every day.
They do! 5g will make web meetings more open and easier. Holograms are coming!
You always share such interesting things to do with technology;
Thanks! Compliments are always welcome!!!
I can imagine how the perfect hologram but have never seen the reality of the holographic projection that is produced at this time.
Right now they are very large and hot!!!!
Cool stuff, you never fail us to update new innovations. You are such a tech guru.
Duplicate but, still can’t help answering. I do love chasing the edges of new technology!
Cool stuff, uou never fail us to update new innovations. You are such a tech guru.
Thank you. I have been a technologist for many years!