Right now, 3-D TV is becoming more popular every day. Actually 3-D movies aren't a new concept, they're around for a long time. But the first try of the film industries to make 3-D interesting didn't work out quiet well, because the technology wasn't far enough. Today, at least since Avatar hit the theaters, 3-D is evolving again.
Slowly 3-D is also coming to general home entertainment systems. The standard technology works with shutter glasses you have to wear, to make a 3-D effect visible. There are also already a few tries from some companies to make the 3-dimensional effects possible without glasses,. The problem is that this plus in comfort is a minus in quality and viewing angle.But while all these devices are just experiencing big developments, there probably is a new technology that is already called "the next big thing": Holographic TV.
Holographic TV, what is it? Most people don't really know what holograms actually are or what they're capable of. Almost everybody knows princess Leia of Star Wars who talks as a free floating hologram to her buddies. Even if I have to disappoint you: That's not possible, at least not in an easy way we could think of today. The problem is that light always needs whether a source or something that reflects it, to find a way to your eyes. If there is nothing like that, you cannot see anything. But that doesn't mean there is no holography. Holograms are actually real, just in a slightly other way most people imagine them. Holograms are like photographs, bound to a medium, for example a piece of special plastic. The difference to a normal photograph is, that the picture has all the information about the object. That means if you turn the piece of plastic the hologram is on, you'll see the object from another angle, like a 3-D computer model. That also means that the object seems to be 3-D, what can create the illusion of the object coming out of the medium.
That all sounds as a very cool technology for movies and home entertainment. The TV would become like a little box with people doing a play in it, but we have to be honest: It will still need a big amount of time until these devices can be thrown at the market.
Right now a team of the University of Arizona managed to take holographic pictures of a moving object and could update the picture every two seconds. That's still far away from 24 pictures per second, which makes a floating movie.
However A team from MIT could reach 15 pictures per second. They used the Microsoft Kinect to capture the holographic images. That sounds already good, but the quality is far from being OK. Actually the quality doesn't matter right now. At the moment, the aim is to develop a technology to capture and display holograms in realtime, the quality will certainly come later on in development.
You can Google the two projects I wrote about and you'll probably find a few videos which show you of what I am talking. You'll not see the holographic effect of course, because it's a normal video.
Even if there are still many steps to take, I think holographic TV can be the "next big thing" in home entertainment, but right now it's certainly not.
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