Researchers Create Life-sized 3D Hologram For Videoconferencing

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 5, 2012 @01:35AM from the perfect-for-the-basement dept.

yyzmcleod writes with this excerpt: "A research team at Queen's University has created a human-scale 3D hologram pod that allows people in different locations to videoconference as if they are standing in front of each other. Called TeleHuman, the technology is the creation of professor Roel Vertegaal, director of the Human Media Lab, and his graduate team at the Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Similar to the Star Trek holodeck, participants can walk around the 3D hologram of the remote person they're talking to and view them from all sides. More importantly, the system captures 3D visual cues that 2D video miss, such as head orientation, gaze and overall body posture."

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not much of a hologram by jellomizer · 2012-05-05 01:55 · Score: 4, Insightful

More of a circular display. Cool, but not yet practical.

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