2010-05-30

Hologram TV is Coming

Times Online

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.




Forget 3D glasses! 'Star Wars' hologram TVs will put you IN the action

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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

DiscoveryNetworks June 16, 2009 — Television's gone from black and white to color to high definition. So is 3-D holographic TV next? Jorge Ribas finds out.


Collected from: YouTube - Holographic TV



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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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. [...]

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Watch closely, ‘Star Wars’ hologram TV is coming - Times Online
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Hologram TVs that will put you IN the action in development | Mail Online
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Japan proposes holographic 3D broadcasts for 2022 World Cup -- Engadget
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YouTube - Holographic TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QYsg7_EHcU&feature=player_embedded#!
Powerful Lasers, Futuristic Digital Cameras, 3-D Television and More: Highlights of Frontiers in Optics Meeting in San Jose, Oct. 11–15
http://www.frontiersinoptics.com/MediaCenter/ConferenceNews/highlights.aspx

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Computer generated holography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_generated_holography
Holographic TV
http://www.squidoo.com/holographictv
Optical Scientists Add New, Practical Dimension to Holography | UANews.org
http://uanews.org/node/18022
3D Holographic TV’s Very Possible And Will Happen By 2020 | Sony Insider
http://www.sonyinsider.com/2008/10/06/3d-holographic-tvs-very-possible-and-will-happen-by-2020/
Scientist: Holographic television to become reality - CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/06/holographic.television/index.html
HoloTV Images Jump off the Screen, into Tomorrow's Homes (w/Video)
http://www.physorg.com/news156072878.html
AFP: Japan offers global 3-D telecasts in 2022 WC bid
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gNVZsxBSbgXx268O16flQfqXOs_w