Watch closely, ‘Star Wars’ hologram TV is coming
THREE-DIMENSIONAL television may be the latest in home cinema, but it will soon seem so 2010. Scientists are already planning its successor — holographic television.On a holo-TV, images will be projected into the middle of a room as a “cloud” that can be enjoyed from every angle without 3-D glasses.
Collected from: Watch closely, ‘Star Wars’ hologram TV is coming - Times Online
Forget 3D glasses! 'Star Wars' hologram TVs will put you IN the action
[...]Holo-TVs will resemble a large book laid out on the floor, according to Sony engineers. Lasers will then project a 'cloud' of images that will appear to float in the middle of the room and can be enjoyed from every angle WITHOUT 3D glasses.
It may sound like an implausible technology more suited to Star Wars films than real life, but industry leaders are taking it very seriously indeed.
Japan proposes holographic 3D broadcasts for 2022 World Cup
While we're limited to merely 3DTV depictions of the 2010 World Cup, Japan is letting its freak flag fly in a proposal to host the 2022 matches with a concept envisioning matches captured by 200 HD cameras, then projected as fully 3D images onto real fields in other countries.Holographic TV
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Powerful Lasers, Futuristic Digital Cameras, 3-D Television and More: Highlights of Frontiers in Optics Meeting in San Jose, Oct. 11–15
[...]SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM: THE FUTURE OF 3-D TELEVISION
With 3-D movies helping to drive record box office revenues this spring and companies like Sony and Panasonic rolling out the first 3-D-enabled televisions, a timely special symposium titled "The Future of 3-D Display: The Marketplace and the Technology" will feature presentations on current and future technologies driving the 3-D revolution. [...]
Collected from: Powerful Lasers, Futuristic Digital Cameras, 3-D Television and More: Highlights of Frontiers in Optics Meeting in San Jose, Oct. 11–15
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