Slashdot Mirror
Star Wars-like Holograms
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!"
The title "Are Holograms Finally for Real?" is a little misleading. Holograms have been around for a long time, it's just holographic image being projected that is a new thing. PBS had a nice show a while back about the emerging tech and how it will effect us.
- cult-like devotion to Linux. reserve your fanaticism for a church, not a kernel.
Funny you mention the word "cult."
That's how I see church.
Damn dude, you are one integrated slashgeek. Get it over at think geek did ya? Did it hurt when they yanked out the wires at the airport?
for those of you that don't get the dumb humor, read the title of the post again.
-1 obvious
Sent from your iPad.
Oh I don't know:
/. FAQ.
"Metamoderation is a second layer of moderation. It seeks to address the issue of unfair moderators by letting "metamoderators" (any logged-in Slashdotter) "rate the rating" of ten randomly selected comment posts. The metamoderator decides if the moderator's rating was fair, unfair, or neither." This is from the
An example. I post an article. Some people mod it up. This moderation is incorrect, because doing this can be a legally thorny issue. Therefore some metamoderators should mod it back down. Does that make sense? Of course, other moderators could mod it back down again, but that does not change the fact that the original post was modded incorrectly to start with.
As for using my keyboard "thingy", at least I know how to use capital letters. And punctuation.
3D and porn, why? Most porn lacks depth.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
it's just an enhanced version of the dvd's multiangle...but with all in ugly blue
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage