MIT Develops Feasible Full Color Holographic Technology

fearless_fx · Apr 24, 2007

Practical holography: The modulator converts a video signal (from the black cable at the bottom) into a vibration. When laser light is passed through the modulator, the vibrations modify the brightness and frequency of the light. The altered light is then shined on a screen, and the varying intensities and frequencies create a three-dimensional hologram.
Credit: Daniel Smalley

A team of researchers at MIT seem to think they've finally come up with a way to make holographic video a bit more practical for everyday use, touting the new system they've developed as a possible display for PCs and video game consoles, Technology Review reports. According to the researchers, the display will be small enough to fit in an entertainment center when finished, boast a resolution as good as a standard analog television, and only cost a "couple of hundred dollars." Much of that increased practicality comes from the fact that this latest version, dubbed the Mark III, simply relies on a standard graphics processor instead of specialized hardware. The researchers also managed to streamline some of the other optical hardware, which they say made the previous incarnations as big as a dining-room table. It apparently still has a few drawbacks, however, with it currently only able to display monochromatic holograms in a space about the size of a Rubik's Cube. They insist that's only a temporary problem though, and promise that the next model will be comparable in size to a desktop monitor and boast a full range of color. No word if there'll also be a port of everybody's favorite quasi-holographic arcade game, Time Traveler, to go along with it, but we can hope.
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lol hmm... i give this technology 5 years before it starts to be integrated into large scale advertising... and maybe another 5 to find its way into homes.

shadow85 · Apr 25, 2007

hehe hologram. it only works in the moveis.

fearless_fx · Apr 25, 2007

and pokemon cards

Knoctur_nal · Apr 25, 2007

and thats all folks. skipping class using a holo projection of me..here i come...

dim8sum · Apr 25, 2007

^possible the only use for it

entertainment in 3d dont work, take imax for an example lol

Knoctur_nal · Apr 25, 2007

of like thta 3d chick to keep u company on a cold nite..

SoulJai · Apr 25, 2007

i still hope i get to use one of those fully holographic computer like the one used in minority report in my life-time lol

reno · Apr 25, 2007

yeah... interesting stuff =)
but as said, takes abt 10 years for any product to hit the market =(
by then, theres something else thats better =D

MIT Develops Feasible Full Color Holographic Technology

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