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One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the help-me-obi-wan dept.

An anonymous reader noted a USC research project that is coming ever closer to bringing the classic Star Wars communication holograms from Tatooine to Earth. There's nifty video and some high resolution pictures of Tie Fighters projected into 3-D. Still no clear way to project it from an astro mech droid, but I'm sure that's coming.

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  1. Old news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The display was shown at the SIGGRAPH 2007 Emerging Technologies exhibition in August 2007 in San Diego, California, where it won the award for "Best Emerging Technology".

    Way to keep up, Slashdot.

    Actually if I felt like searching I'm sure I could find this same story posted years ago.

    1. Re:Old news... by BobMcD · · Score: 4, Informative

      The display was shown at the SIGGRAPH 2007 Emerging Technologies exhibition in August 2007 in San Diego, California, where it won the award for "Best Emerging Technology".

      Way to keep up, Slashdot.

      Actually if I felt like searching I'm sure I could find this same story posted years ago.

      I think this tells us something about the internet as an informational medium. Old news, but how many of us heard of it for the first time today? I know I never saw the 2008 posting, nor would I have frequented whatever site that link is from. Makes you wonder how many things, neat or otherwise, are simply lost to a digital wasteland.

  2. Nothing new by OzPeter · · Score: 4, Informative

    The ol' spinning mirror used to fake a real 3d display trick

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  3. Re:Dup! by NewmanKU · · Score: 5, Informative

    This was posted back in 2008. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/27/1551232