Starwars Style Holographic 3DTV Could Be a Reality in a Decade
By ryan | December 11, 2008
Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to do a whole review myself, but I wanted to expand on a post I mentioned a while back about the possibility of this happening soon. Below is the digest version of the article. The whole you can find the whole story at the link at the bottom of this post.
University of Aberdeen (12/02/08) Cromar, Kelly
The results of a four-year European Commission (EC) project investigating the underlying principles and technologies of three-dimensional (3D) TV suggest that fully interactive, floating holographic images could be available to the mass market by 2018. Simpler stereoscopic 3D images that require the viewer to wear glasses may be only a few months away, and more advanced systems based on autostereoscopic technology, which would not require glasses, may be available in two or three years. A team of experts from the University of Aberdeen received an EC grant to perform a detailed analysis of 3D visual display technologies and the applications that could come from such systems, including the laser technology that would be required to record programs broadcast on such a system. The research drew from expertise gained at institutions in Finland, Bulgaria, Turkey, Germany, and the United Kingdom. University of Aberdeen professor John Watson says the research explored how 3D imagery could be used in medicine, air traffic control, underwater measurement, computer graphics, and gaming, as part of an effort to better understand how applications could make the best use of 3D images. Watson says the technological advancements needed to achieve 3D technology include improvements in data transmission to send 3D images, and the use of cutting-edge laser technology during the filming of images.
Read the whole story at The University of Aberdeen
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