hologram | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:46:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png hologram | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Phone future: projector screens and holograms within two years https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/phone-future-projector-screens-and-holograms-within-two-years/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/phone-future-projector-screens-and-holograms-within-two-years/#respond Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:40:49 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=196725 One of my favourite features of smartphones in recent years, has been their interaction with far bigger displays. With a quick swipe or tap of a button I can send Youtube and other videos straight to my TV to enjoy in full, making watching favourite videos or streaming content much easier to do with a …

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One of my favourite features of smartphones in recent years, has been their interaction with far bigger displays. With a quick swipe or tap of a button I can send Youtube and other videos straight to my TV to enjoy in full, making watching favourite videos or streaming content much easier to do with a group of people, but what if you're somewhere that doesn't have a big TV to show these on? That's what Ostendo is looking to fix, by turning every smartphone into a projector capable of making a 48″ display out of any flat surface.

Ostendo has been working on miniature projector technology for almost a decade and it's now refined it enough to bring it the commercial sector. By 2015, it's thought that its tiny projection chipset will be found in a large number of smartphones, giving everyone the ability to pull a massive TV from their pocket whenever they need it, by controlling the colour, brightness and angle of every wave of light across a million pixels.

What's really impressive though, is that this is just the first generation of the chip. While next year we'll be able to fire off a 2D screen, within a few years Ostendo is confident it will be able to launch a commercial chip capable of projecting 3D images, which is when we start to see a holodeck future that could make Oculus VR start to worry.

“Display is the last frontier,” said Ostendo's CEO, Hussein S. El-Ghoroury.  “Over the years, processing power has improved and networks have more bandwidth, but what is missing is comparable advancement in display.”

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Of course he's being a little facetious, as today we have much higher definition displays in our smartphones than were on our TV stands just a few years ago, but we are still looking at 2D displays at a set distance most of the time. El-Ghoroury believes that time has nearly passed however and he's hoping to usher in the new age.

After nearly 10 years of work, he thinks he's nearly done it too. By combining an image processor with micro-LEDs, he's created what's called a Quantum Photonic Imager, which the Wall Street Journal got a preview of in action. According to its own experience, it showed “a set of six chips laid together that beamed a 3-D image of green dice spinning in the air. The image and motion appeared consistent, irrespective of the position of the viewer.”

Not only is this tech advanced in its holographic ability, but by using projection technology it's bypassing traditional resolution standards. While 4K displays might just be starting to hit TVs and monitors, they're not even a fraction as detailed as Ostendo's previewed technology. To put it in perspective, a 40″ 4k display at four feet distance might have around 200 dots per inch, Ostendo's projection could be as high as 5,000 dots per inch.

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Star Wars 3D moving holograms become reality https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jules/star-wars-3d-moving-holograms-become-reality/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jules/star-wars-3d-moving-holograms-become-reality/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:42:49 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=21982 ‘Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, You're my only hope'. These words will ring down through the annals of history as some of the most poignant in the scifi world, from Star Wars. Now, more than 30 years scientists have developed the first real time moving hologram. These ‘telepresence' images appear without the need for special glasses …

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‘Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, You're my only hope'. These words will ring down through the annals of history as some of the most poignant in the scifi world, from Star Wars. Now, more than 30 years scientists have developed the first real time moving hologram.

These ‘telepresence' images appear without the need for special glasses such as needed when watching 3D movies, like Avatar. Images from 3D television can only be seen from one perspective however the new hologram images will be able to have objects seen from different angles.

This technology could in fact be used in holographic webcasts, movies, TV shows and even with telemedicine.

Nasser Peyghambarian, led researcher at the University of Arizona in Tucson said “Holographic telepresence means we can record a three dimensional image in one location and show it in another location, in real time, anywhere in the world.”

It has been possible to create a 3D holographic picture of a static object since the 1960's but only now can they ‘update' or ‘refresh' large scale 3d images that can be viewed under normal conditions.

The 10 inch display made from a new type of photosensitive material can let the image be updated every 2 seconds and this is expected to be improved in the near future. A new 17 inch screen version is already developed with a focus on improving the update rate.

KitGuru says: This is surely the future of movie entertainment.

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