Holographic Movies Move Closer To Reality

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Professor Nasser Peyghambarian of the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences has revealed he and his research team have been able to “realize science fiction in the laboratory” by producing 3D holographic images similar to those seen in the original Star Wars. The system, which requires no glasses — but, unlike the Princess Leia scene in Star Wars, does require a screen — could eventually revolutionize motion pictures by displaying life-size holographic images that could be transmitted in real time into theaters — allowing, for example, live stage shows to be mounted in one city and watched in hundreds of other theaters with such realism that the actors would appear to be performing on the stage of each of them. In a description of his research published in the current Nature magazine, Peyghambarian indicated that the holographic display is currently in a relatively primitive stage (it can only update images every two seconds, so that they appear jerky); however, he said, it “brings us a step closer to the ultimate goal of realistic holographic telepresence with high resolution, full color, human-sized, 3D images that can be sent at video refresh rates from one part of the world to another.” »

 

[JAK®]

So is this the next medium film snobs will hate?

 

[Deaths Head II]

Now that's what I'm talking about. Holographic movies. Bring it on.

 

[Commodore Schmidlapp]

That's kinda cool.

 

[Timstuff]

I can see holograms being useful for advertising, computers, video games and communications. However, I only see limited appeal for movies. A holographic movie would be more like watching a stage play, because your experience will be different depending on where you sit. It would be an entirely different medium, and if it ever happens you can bet there will be a lot of confusion about what to use it for.

 

[Spider-Who?]

my old man has been an electronic engineer for several large companies over the past 30 years. In the early 90s, he went to Japan for some type of consultation. They showed him a holographic projector (made literally of smoke and mirrors). He said they were playing a John Wayne movie with it, and that seeing a life size John Wayne shooting guns and walking around the room was the craziest thing he's ever seen.

 

[Webhead2006]

some interesting stuff there. i agree with tim though.

 

[chaseter]

my old man has been an electronic engineer for several large companies over the past 30 years. In the early 90s, he went to Japan for some type of consultation. They showed him a holographic projector (made literally of smoke and mirrors). He said they were playing a John Wayne movie with it, and that seeing a life size John Wayne shooting guns and walking around the room was the craziest thing he's ever seen.

Has he ever seen a male prostitute?

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Finally, proper 3D. Not the fake one we have been graced with.

 

[Deaths Head II]

I can see holograms being useful for advertising, computers, video games and communications. However, I only see limited appeal for movies. A holographic movie would be more like watching a stage play, because your experience will be different depending on where you sit. It would be an entirely different medium, and if it ever happens you can bet there will be a lot of confusion about what to use it for.

I think even if it feels like a play, seeing Leonardo DiCaprio or whoever as if they were in front of you is still impressive. And you'd never see explosions and giant robots in a play.

And it would be definitely be amazing for home theaters.

 

[Spider-Who?]

Has he ever seen a male prostitute?

not up close.

 

[danoyse]

But the shark still looks fake.

 

[X-Ray]

I can see holograms being useful for advertising, computers, video games and communications. However, I only see limited appeal for movies. A holographic movie would be more like watching a stage play, because your experience will be different depending on where you sit. It would be an entirely different medium, and if it ever happens you can bet there will be a lot of confusion about what to use it for.

Hell yeah. This tech on video games would start out like that checker board game or whatever from Star Wars. Then eventually, we'll be linking up to the Matrix. More closer to the Danger Room though.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Sounds interesting! I'm curious whether or not it will keep in focus and whether or not it will retain the colour and contrast ratios we currently get from traditional film.

 

[X-Ray]

It has begun.

The next Lady Gaga could be a Japanese holographic singing idol

If you're an aspiring musician, stop reading now, this will be painful. Japan's Crypton Future Media has unleashed upon the world what may be the future of pop music in the amazingly realistic, holographic singing idol Hatsune Miku.

Hatsune is a product of Japan's popular Vocaloid software scene in which fans can create their own songs for fictional characters to sing. The twist here is that Crypton took things to the next level by making the character into a hologram and actually putting their avatar on tour, playing to huge enthusiastic audiences. The spectacle of a hologram performing on stage, with a live backing band in front of thousands of screaming fans is pure science fiction brought to real life. To really process exactly how amazing (and hauntingly creepy) the Hatsune Miku music tour is, take a look at the HD video below.

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[Deaths Head II]

Oh ****.

That just blows my mind.

 

[chaseter]

It blows my mind that Japanese kids go crazy for an anime pop singer.

 

[O_B_Juan]

Next step: Hologram Tom Petty! He will tour forever!

 

[FVD]

Holographic Porn. I will say no more!

 

[Crosswind Ghost]

Holographic Porn. I will say no more!

The 6th day comes to mind.

 

[superhero]

i gues in 2015 we get hover bords too.

 

[X-Ray]

i gues in 2015 we get hover bords too.

And when someone fails to get it working over water. I'm going to be that guy in this scene ...

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Crazy laugh included.

 

[redhawk23]

that reminds me of that movie Simone.

talk about corprate manufactured pop, not they don't even need real people, imagine a Justine Bieber hollogram that no matter how much we hate it will never get old and go away!

edit: oh wait thats just Justine Bieber

 

[Sawyer]

But the shark still looks fake.

 

[Timstuff]

I think Kinect may be a good clue for us as to the method in which holographic footage will eventually be captured. Essentially, Kinect takes the 2D feed of a camera and maps it onto a mesh created from a camera that reads depth.



If you could somehow set up multiple kinect units with much higher resolutions that could work together to map a more complete 3D image, I think that the question of whether or not we can actually capture 3D images for holograms like the ones in Star Wars will be unequivocally answered. The only question then will be how to exhibit the footage as 3D holograms.

I still don't think holographic movies are ever going to be in, though. At best I think holograms will be used for a fancy telephone, and at worst, the most obnoxious advertising gimmick in history.