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Thursday, June 20, 2013

TECHNOLOGY NEWS -
 

STAR WARS HOLOGRAMS FROM YOUR LAPTOP

 

 Unlike a 3-D image, a holographic projection allows the viewer to move around and get different perspectives from all angles


Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!  Remember that line on Star Wars, when Princess Leia sends a hologram message with droid Artoo Deeto?
 
Soon you may be able to send hologram messages to someone's laptop.   It will take some work but it's possible. 

Until now key elements of display size, viewing angle, frame rate, and depth of image are restricted.  But scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) think they can overcome most of those obstacles with a newly developed spatial light modulator.  They envision a holographic monitor that could be built with about $500. 

Read morehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2344562/Star-Wars-style-moving-holograms-longer-lightyears-away-breakthrough-3D-technology.html

Daniel Smalley, a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab and first author on the new paper, is building a prototype color holographic-video display whose resolution is roughly that of a standard-definition TV and which can update video images 30 times a second, fast enough to produce the illusion of motion. The heart of the display is an optical chip, resembling a microscope slide, that Smalley built, using only MIT facilities, for about $10.
 
Read more details on this fascinating project on the MIT news release:

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