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."

Comments

You've Got Holo!

[aurifex]

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 want to be heard, not seen.

[Doomsdaisy]

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.

ONE BIG PROBLEM

[Nykon]

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.