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Researchers Envision 3-D Hologram Phone
Chad Gray copies and pastes "It's an idea that was popularized by Princess Leia's plea for help in Star Wars: sending a 3-D hologram. Now, two Japanese scientists have developed technology they hope will one day turn the humble telephone booth into a high-tech chamber for beaming holographic images."
Just imagine; I am on the phone, a call comes in, and it's Natalie Portman!!!!! Now, if they could just develop a way to teleport hot grits into my pants during this ...
is it that bad seein a hot chick again? if i see a hot chick walkin down the hall i dont say "repost"
I guess there will be a whole new phone sex business for this sort of technology, right?
I mean, what's better than a depressed, down on life phone sex operator giving fake moans for $1.50/hr? Why, a holographic depressed, down on life phone sex operator giving fake moans for $1.50/hr!
gr8 invention , but just imagining what changes it could bring , if this becomes popular.... 1.We need to dress up to talk on phone 2.Cant be partying and call the boss pretending to be sick.. Can nyone think of funnier changes it could bring abt :-)
I still think that this is doomed to failure as the average person doesn't want to be seen in their natural state. I just know that I'd be getting all kinds of unwanted calls from guys who stare at my source code rather than attempt communication.
These are breasts; this is source code.
Why do you have a problem with those two things belonging to one person?
I'm sorry, but I don't think Star Wars really popularized the idea of a 3D hologram...Princess Lea's plea wasn't even a 3D hologram. It was just a 2D projection. We can do that kind of thing now. Does any one remember the holographic arcade game by Sega?
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The biggest problem with video phones, and why they have never taken off in any form, in the last 10, 20 + years...
Most people do not want you to see what they look when they talk to you. How many times have you answered the phone and just woke up? Maybe you are a girl or guy and just met someone new and do not look the way you would want to be seen in front of them? The list goes on.
Basically, more times then not, people would turn the video option off when used in a personal setting.
Now the only arena any type of video phone service has taken off is in business when visual interaction may help get the idea across. Though the most popular version of this concept is Video Conferencing.
I strongly believe video phones will not take off in a non-business environment for the above stated reasons.
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The trend seems to be going in the other direction: more and more people are using text messages, a far less personal mode of communication.
Since the arrival of the mobile phone (with the worthy hands free) , the telephone booths have been dying out (or at least its time is numbered).... Except for Ransom calls nothing else would use booths if the current trend kept up :)
Interestingly, I think a "virtual" hologram system which'd use a 3-D head mount with all the 3D movements in software would be easier. Would be like playing an FPS , in the real world where we can walk around a "virtual" image of a real thing.
I'd love a panorama that I can view by turning my head around (think about the IR camera system in Apache Longbow, but on a still image so to speak).
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Sure wish they would put a conceptual diagram or rendered picture of said technology.
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I'm too lazy with my imagination.
Just spoon feed me will ya!
We are so far behind, its too much to ask... I know.
The next logical step is clear: move all motion picture screenings into these telephone booths with holographic images!
Soon, movie theatres will disappear, giving way to cramped little booths with people watching movies, having to pause halfway through to step out and sit down to take the weight off their feet.
Or, wait. Is this whole beamed holographic image thing just a big thought experiment? In that case, can't we just replace the stupid phone booth concept entirely? I mean, it isn't like we can't get throw-away cellphones for ten bucks at the corner store. Where's the forward thinking from these so-called smart researcher sorts? Porn. Naked, writhing women.
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The viewing cylinder is about ten inches high with an eight inch circumference. That works out to roughly 2.5 inches in diameter.
Okay, so this works out fine for people that are, let's say (the height is arbitrary, not taken from article), up to 6'2" inches tall, and are a little more than 1.5 feet wide, or 4.8 feet (about 58 inches) in circumference, but any more than that and you will have some cropping taking effect.
In fact, would the image simply be stretched across the cylinder, or would it appear normal from different angles? In the case that it would appear stretched it would simply normalize the width of all viewed through this device. This would likely be very unflattering for most, and in any case it would be a bit unflattering for at least a few (albeit a small portion of the population if it was only the very overweight).
Something else to consider is that over the course of human existence and the existence of communication as a whole the trend has been towards: A) less personal interaction, and B) quicker communication of details. From speaking, to writing, then Morse code, radio telegraph, then telephone (quite possibly an anomaly to this trend, but very quick, so maybe not), then email and instant messaging (the best of both worlds). It may very well be safe to assume that this won't catch on, but then again, we never know what will be deemed the most desirable in the tech world.
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3D viewing through spinning projections is nothing new. Viewers which utilize an upwards-facing projector and rotating screen in the center of a sphere have been around for a while. I can't find a link at the moment, but the concept is not new. It is cool to see LEDs and fiber-optics used, as well as a new real-time scanning method.
The really cool ones, though, are the hologram techinques that use reflected light to produce an image in space. Here's a short piece from wired and an over view of some other technology.
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and other bad messages heading your way soon....
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This could be used to give new meaning (and new weight) to the term "obscene phone call"! eeeeeeeew
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No shit! The price better fall real by a couple of hundred percent.
I for one welcome our high-tech holographic image beaming chamber overlords.
Have you metaroderated recently?
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
Another technology that's maybe too advanced, too "gadget" or not fashion enough to be profitable. I was just reading how nintendo used network since the NES days, and every following console version had its modem (with no success). a truly sad story about ppl trying to release new tech to a public that goes: Meh...
They just quietly assume that everything will be used for making dating sims and more. It's a language and culture based around implication.
Lately mobile operators around here have started to push video-calls and would you believe it, those seem to be their selling points.
I mean, one ad is about a guy who receives a call in his pijamas and rushes out to get dressed nicely (at least from the waist up). Another one pictures a man calling home to tell his wife he'll be getting home late because his still at work on a meeting or whatever. Then another fellow gets behind him dancing and with a glass in his hand and the wife says "at work? uh? yeah, sure" and hangs up.
W00t!!! Holo pr0n! Just wait till you get to see them in 3D glory and not just hear them. But, I'm not sure if I want to spend 15 buck a minute for the 900 number call.
Life is not for the lazy.
now I have to dress up just to make a phone call...
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in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, along with a lot of other great analysis of technology and *entertainment*.
Just because a woman has a sexy voice it doesn't mean that there body matches the voice. Right now on the other side of the phone it could be a 1000lbs immobile woman answering the telephone. Because it is one of the fiew jobs she can do. No with Holographic phones she would be our of business. Plus all the extra expences of makup hair etc.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It would be great if you had a lot of good looking friends who don't get dressed in the morning, but it would sick if you're like me and all your friends are ugly.
This technology will never work in the U.S. It has to be installed in a phone booth, and (Verizon|SBC|BellSouth|Qwest) got rid of all the phone booths!
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
Yeah, like any company will actually be stupid enough to pay for this.
- It would be too expensive to install this technology in all the phone booths. Currently, public telephones are expensive enough to install without having to put an entire computer, a hologram machine, and video equipment in the booth.
- Telephone calls would have to cost too much to justify the technology. The phone company would perform an economic analysis and find that demand for these types of calls is almost a negative number, while the costs to implement it are high. Therefore, it will be impossible to break even on the installation of the new equipment.
- If these phone booths are such technologically advanced chambers, some asshole like me would come in the middle of the night, tie a chain from a truck to the phone booth, yank the damn thing out of the ground, and take it home, where I'd hook it up to my Linux box running kernel 3.2 and X.org version 9 (remember, this is in the future) with a module called Holorama, a fork of Xinerama, and then use the phone booth to look at pr0n in 3D.
That's why it'll never happen. Oh well.I welcome our holographic overlords? Someone had to say it, I guess...
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That, and that to actually do it over phone lines would require more bandwidth than phones have. The only place it can actually work is over the internet, and guess what?
It is starting to take off. It's moving at about the same rate as VOIP. The biggest problem now is the horrible latency you get with some connections.
I have a group of three very close friends that I've had since high school. One is going to MIT, one is in Washington, and one is in Florida. We were thinking of starting to meet regularly using video conferencing.
I'm sure that if the technology was actually as available as you claimed there would be lots of people doing this.
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Engadget has a photo of what it looks like here: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000837021481/ You won't exactly be blown away.
I found this photograph... maybe that will help?
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According to a friend on the industry at the time (i.e. this is an unconfirmed rumor), in the mid-90s sex-related businesses were responsible for 1/3rd of Internet-related revenue. Much of this was plowed back into infrastructure and technology.
In other words, if it weren't for the sex drive, we might be a few years behind were we are in internet tech, due to lack of funding.
Of course, this is just a rumor.....
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then why does my VOIP provider charge me extra for 911 service?
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now I have to dress up just to make a phone call...
I won't. This is my house and I'l be damned if somebody who's calling early in the morning will force me to put on some pants. If the caller is aware of this technology, then he should be aware of the consequences and consequences he shall have!
This thing aint a hologram. Calling this a hologram is like calling a movie a play.
A hologram utilizes interference patterns to reproduce a highly detailed model (in photons) of the original. In fact, the reproduced model will reveal details down to the microscopic level due to the fine grain nature of the medium. Though I suspect you can get around that it is a hallmark of a hologram.
This device is essentially nothing more than that clock on thinkgeek that shows the time hovering in midair. He's just added a shutter so he has a way to advance the frames.
My phone bill has gone 3-D, too!
What sex am I?
The kind of communication for which one uses a phone booth tends to be more impromptu, brief, impersonal, and un-needful of the extended immersiveness of visual interaction.
Let me know when I can have this at home and at my office desk.
People are investigating putting projection video into handheld devices like phones. The movtive is to obtain a large image in a small form factor. You only need a square centimenter for a scanning projector. The drawbacks are high power and need for a good surface. There were a coupld of papers at SIGGRAPH on warping images from oblique or moving projectors.
A true hologram consists of a reconstruction of the wavefront eminating from a scene which is inherently 3d. The system describes a temporal stereoscopic display based on the spinning cylinder systems that have been around for 20 years. It has about as much to do with a viewmaster as a hologram.
What if she does the voice and elastigirl does the visuals? Wouldn't that keep everyone happy?
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