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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!
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.
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).
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
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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If the price fell 100%, wouldn't that be $0?
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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...
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.
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.
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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