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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."
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?
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.
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...
I guess there will be a whole new phone sex business for this sort of technology, right?
Your post is very funny, but I think it's really insightful, too.
Never underestimate the power of pr0n when it comes to pushing new technologies. The VCR, cable TV, high-speed internet access, etc... there were a lot of factors contributing to their success, but I think the availability of pr0n was a primary factor in all of them! The power of pr0n will probably make or break this holophone technology if it becomes commercially available at some point in the future.
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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.