That might be where we’re headed, but TCL’s prototype at CES was too much like that 90s arcade game, Hologram Time Traveller – more smoke and mirrors than Princess Leia freespace projection. The more immediate future of TV is all about OLED, 4K, Crystal Display, 8K glasses free 3D, and possibly, transparent screens. In fact, the Future Of TV Is Beautiful, Simple And Good [Gizmodo]
File this under cool shit we probably won’t see for a long time: Apple just recently filed an expanded patent application for a system that would detect hand/head motion around a computer and let you manipulate projected image controls.
They’re calling it a 3D laser display, but I see all my holographic dreams being projected without a screen in mid-air. Now if we could only stuff it into an R2 unit.
I dream of having a room full of interactive 3D holograms, much like those found in Star Trek and X-Men. This interactive holographic system, which combines a glassesless 3D parallax display with a touch sensor, gets me closer to that dream.
This has the potential to be the greatest Kinect hack in the world! Researchers at the MIT Media lab have used a Kinect, an off-the-shelf laptop, the internet, a Princess Leia impersonator and a PC with three GPUs to transmit a holographic image over the net at about 15 frames per second. Help us MIT, you’re our only hope!
