Star Wars-like Holograms

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 2, 2002 @08:23PM from the not-quite-princess-leia-yet dept.

jeffy124 writes: "Business 2.0 has an article up about Ford's use of holograms during vehicle development. It's almost exactly like that scene in the original Star Wars where R2D2 ran a movie of Princess Leia saying 'Help me Obi Wan.' Basically, Ford uses the system during development to get a look at the car and various parts without needing to construct a full prototype. The image is a 3-D projection and hovers just above the floor, allowing the user to walk around the 'vehicle,' getting a look at it from all angles. I can picture the pr0n jokes now!"

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errrrrr... by m.batsis · 2002-07-02 20:31 · Score: 4, Funny

... can we classify ghosts as 'legasy systems' now?

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Re:Exactly like that scene in Star Wars? by Flounder · 2002-07-02 21:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Star Wars came out in '77.

Turn in your geek ID card at the counter, you'll have it returned to you when you can quote from memory all the dialogue from the Death Star battle.

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