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Breakthrough in Holographic Tech Makes 3D Sets 5 to 10 Years Away
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 4:00 PM on October 7, 2008
Holographic television sets may be only a few years off thanks to a new breakthrough in 3D technology. Researchers at the University of Arizona said they had made the first updatable 3D displays with memory, a prerequisite for getting any holographic image to move. With the new technology, displays can now be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes.
Though that's still far slower than the refresh rate of normal 2D television sets, the researchers said that speeding the frame rate up would be a piece of cake compared to the first breakthrough. They were so confident, they even gave a time peg--five to ten years before the technology would reach the market. That's right, folks! Five to ten years before every wannabe-Luke Skywalker in the world will get to endlessly loop that integral Star Wars scene.
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
Paul
Posted October 7, 2008 9:20 PM
This sounds really cool - love to see a video of what they can do now!
kickace
Posted 5:28 PM 7/10/08
my God....holographic 3D porn.
billions of dreams will come true in 5-10 years.
kickace
MrYuk
Posted 5:28 PM 7/10/08
pr0n sites will never be the same again.
MrYuk
zchen - lawlaw beklog oO
Posted 5:21 PM 7/10/08
hmm... holo-pron...
make it quick!!!!
wanna see Maria Ozawa boning me :)
zchen - lawlaw beklog oO
ZetaCrossfire
Posted 5:15 PM 7/10/08
So 1 step closer to the holo-deck?
ZetaCrossfire
NitrousO
Posted 5:07 PM 7/10/08
Really? Like Star Wars style volumetric displays? I honestly thought it was a technology that would never become real at this point and Im still skeptical.
NitrousO
Elliuotatar
Posted 5:07 PM 7/10/08
How's it gonna take five to ten years for holo TV's to reach the market when cable providers can still only barely cope with HD? And lest we forget, you need 3D CONTENT to display on your 3D TV as well, and nobody's producing anything like that.
Elliuotatar
Zargon
Posted 5:05 PM 7/10/08
Kind of dissapointed that there's no picture/movie, but theese are GOOD news.
Zargon
DreDog
Posted 5:42 PM 7/10/08
@Elliuotatar:
The timeframe estimate is for the technology capable of displaying the media, nothing more.
DreDog
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 6:29 PM 7/10/08
What with all the porn? I'm going to be watching bacon.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
djheath
Posted 6:55 PM 7/10/08
@Elliuotatar:
Are you kidding?!! Do you not remember Jaws 3D!!!?
djheath
DaSmith
Posted 7:31 PM 7/10/08
@Elliuotatar: Well don't worry, some big corporation will pour a large amount of money in this project and then show it to the world, and we - tech maniacs that have to have everything first - will stick onto it like flies on honey! Just like it happened probably around 400-500 times with other products of big corporations - Apple, Microsoft, Sony, etc.
DaSmith
Mactacular
Posted 7:26 PM 7/10/08
yeah, porn would be cool, but what about FPS games? I have always dreamed of being placed into a first person virtual reality of LB-426... those of you who don't know what that is fail and need to go watch Aliens right now.
Mactacular
yuriythebest
Posted 11:19 PM 7/10/08
I think I'll stick to my trusty 3d lcd for now
yuriythebest
zyberteq
Posted 11:31 PM 7/10/08
@Elliuotatar: ehmmm, Journey to the Center of the Earth (with Brendan Fraser) and some other animation from pixar or dreamworks will come out in full 3D (this year iirc)
so yeah.. there WILL be 3D content in 5 to 10 yrs ;)
zyberteq
Lev_Astov
Posted 11:44 PM 7/10/08
Yeah, I'm pretty sure 3D LCDs are here NOW and that MIT has working prototypes of color laser holographic screens now, as well.
Lev_Astov
closhedbb
Posted 12:30 AM 8/10/08
@Elliuotatar: I have a sneaking suspicion that the porn industry will hit that technology like a... well... you know...
closhedbb
EricAlder
Posted 1:00 AM 8/10/08
Oh man! 3-D bacon?
Add a Smell-O-Matic option and I'm there!
EricAlder
xxsodapopxx5
Posted 1:22 AM 8/10/08
you know what be even better than fps games? RTS's. Getting a full view of combat happening in front of you, hundreds of people fighting, wow, fuck, games are never gonna be the same. I can't wait for this one.
xxsodapopxx5
avconsumer2
Posted 1:36 AM 8/10/08
@shini: no doubt - I'm guessing the latter, like 20-never. Right alongside our flying cars.
avconsumer2
josecardozo
Posted 1:31 AM 8/10/08
hey! what are you talking about?! About 2 years ago, I read here on Giz that we'd have sex robots in 5 years, so we`ll have sex robots in 3 years! Who gives a fuck about holographic images?
josecardozo
shini
Posted 1:30 AM 8/10/08
Is this the 5-10 years where it actually happens or the 5-10 years where it's more like 20-never?
shini
Killjoy
Posted 2:35 AM 8/10/08
By the time we're all in the old folks' home we will have immersive 3D video games to take us away from the reality of living in old folks' homes.
Killjoy
ShikhaTriarius
Posted 7:56 PM 7/10/08
This would be a boon for architects, game designers, anyone working on spatial problems. I for one can't wait to boot up Maya 2015 3-D.
ShikhaTriarius
VincentioToad
Posted 7:36 PM 7/10/08
It has nothing to do with the hologram you hope it will be .. ( the starwars transmitter ) what they speak about are the holograms you find up to now just in pictures. there are some very good once out there but it is still "just" a picture .. same with the video .. we will have a screen which will appear to be a window to a 3D world once the refreshrate is high enough. However ... you will need a screen .. you will not be able to see it from 360` round ... just 150-170` .. so no its not the hologram which floats midair and looks like arnold with a turban projected from this watch .. (total recall) :) there are attempts to really do this by using the focalpoint of a laser ... but its all not as easy as it looks .. for now I wait for the very nice "D-Tank" which will satisfy me and maybe 80% of the world when it comes to real 3D screens ..
VincentioToad
Xenocide
Posted 3:16 AM 8/10/08
@josecardozo: HA!
Xenocide
se7a7n7
Posted 3:10 AM 8/10/08
Does anybody remember the Time Traveler "3D" arcade game from the early 90s?
+ Watch video
se7a7n7
holoman
Posted 3:24 AM 8/10/08
Have patents protecting holographics, including tv, until 2018. Whereby others patents grandfathered on the originals will extent my holographics technology another 20 years.
I wouldn't expect to see holographics anytime soon as Sony and others are waiting for my patents to expire but that will not happen.
holoman
fsusmithc2
Posted 3:47 AM 8/10/08
My question is this: is this 5-10 years thing when we'll have tech capable of a refresh rate of "a matter of minutes" or full motion?
fsusmithc2
fsusmithc2
Posted 3:45 AM 8/10/08
@holoman:
So then are you going to make these TVs? Why horde the tech if you're not going to do anything with it? Sell/license your invention and make bank.
I'm sorry if that sounds rude but so did your comment.
fsusmithc2
DonnaBabanacka
Posted 5:22 PM 7/10/08
Who said anything about cable providers? The immediate applications for this are obviously as a computer peripheral or for use with a standalone player. 10 years from now, internet bandwidth should be sufficient to handle most, if not all TV broadcasts anyway, why not content for a hologram projector? By the sound of it hologram discs (same name, different tech) aren't far off of the consumer market either, and their 3.9 TB capacity *should* be enough to store feature-length hologram movies.
DonnaBabanacka
T-Will
Posted 4:04 AM 8/10/08
@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog:
You owe me new pair of pants.
T-Will
Con Seannery
Posted 5:01 AM 8/10/08
And I thought the iPhone 3G had a big crowd, wait till the 3D...
I can has 3D3DO?
I saw a very realistic hologram in the Pro Football Hall Of Fame of the ring...I got to touch the hologram...
Con Seannery
toyotaboy02
Posted 4:57 AM 8/10/08
ralph cramdon can finally buy alice a new TV!
toyotaboy02
Con Seannery
Posted 5:02 AM 8/10/08
@fsusmithc2: The point of a small company holding a patent is to wait until a big one forgets about the patent, makes a product kind of similar to your very vague patent, and then sue the fuck out of em to stifle innovation...
Con Seannery
Marco
Posted 5:34 AM 8/10/08
Holograms are also making a splash in solar PV panels too.
Check this out: [www.prismsolar.com]
Marco
plastikwaren
Posted 6:16 AM 8/10/08
oo, a hologram displaying a hologram! *mind explodes*
plastikwaren
jrghoull
Posted 10:13 AM 8/10/08
@Con Seannery:
STIFLING INNOVATION FTW!!!
jrghoull
jrghoull
Posted 10:11 AM 8/10/08
i really hope that the first holographic movie is a porno. normally that would be enough for me, but due to the special occassion, i have a more specific request. The film has to be a "parody porno" that specifically makes fun of star wars> it also has to have lots of holograms within the film itself, and as a direct result, has to confuse the hell out of the audience.
jrghoull
jrghoull
Posted 10:06 AM 8/10/08
@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: i think he meant he will be watching kevin bacon in one of the first 3-d pornos
jrghoull
Migo
Posted 11:49 AM 8/10/08
@zchen - lawlaw beklog oO:
You sir, have the right kind of thinking. POV pron will therefore be 100% based on where you sit!
Migo
HollywoodBob
Posted 11:37 AM 8/10/08
I just want a hologram emitter like in Halo so I can have a Cortana/Serena like holographic avatar for my puter.
HollywoodBob
uli
Posted 2:28 PM 8/10/08
how ever awesome this would be for porn and sports it would compleatly distroy movies as an art form. cinematography anyone!! think of your favorite sceen in your favorite movie and then think how bad it would like 2 inches in any direction
uli
shini
Posted 4:33 PM 8/10/08
@avconsumer2: Dammit! It's always the good stuff...
shini
StealthNinja
Posted 8:52 PM 9/10/08
It's like a Pico projector that comes out of the screen, but with a polymer holographic 3-d film coating! Etc...
StealthNinja