Holographic TV. The new 3D?

[Driller]

Very interesting report here for anyone interested:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online...

Must admit I've never seen the latest 3D with glasses in action but this is fascinating stuff. It seems we're finally coming to the Blake's Seven age

[Stu R]

Certainly very interesting, but it's a hell of a long way off. Without some fairly big developments it'll be still born.

[headcase]

Hmm i wonder if it will work with a cheepo HDMI cable

[JustinP1]

headcase said:

Hmm i wonder if it will work with a cheepo HDMI cable

Well reading over previous threads for background, this technology seems to be digital, which is made up of 1s and 0s so it will either work, or it won't.

Seriously though, as a previous student of the academic study of the development of film/TV along with the consumption tech, something like this is an inevitability.

Everything else along the way, big screens, widescreen etc is just little steps in the same direction.

Watching Avatar in 3D at an Imax was an astonishing experience. With the best will in the world when I tested even the Panasonic TV on the same film, it was kind of watching a dark version of the same film with some parts coming out of the screen as long as they were dead centre of my centre of vision.

It is an interesting gimmick at the moment, but nowhere near 'there'. I was originally all up for a 3DTV after Avatar, but the home tech just doesn't give the same experience at the moment.

Edited by JustinP1 on Sunday 13th February 11:46

[hughjayteens]

I've seen a number of no-glasses TVs at various trade shows and whilst I like the idea (i.e. can't imagine sitting with glasses on unless it is for something like a big match or movie night) the effect is still a long way from being as effective as the with glasses version, and you can only view from a number if fixed angles (in between it is like being very drunk!). I first saw it 2 years ago and it doesn't appear to have progressed a huge amount in that time.

Holographic projection is a whole different ball game and quite an exciting concept although the chances of seeing this as early as 2012 are almost nil!

[JustinP1]

Funnily enough, there was a scifi(ish) series from 1993 called 'Wild Palms' which although fiction was quite accurate.

In the future, TV production is run by huge monopolies (Sky...?). One of them is trying to push an amazing new technology to view their programming where the characters do appear as a hologram in your front room.

As a sideline, they also show how a lot of people become 'lost' to the world as the are so engrossed in 'virtual' worlds in computers where they can be who they want, and their avatars interact they want to reject reality. Quite forward looking for 1993. It also hinted that TV/film/videogames would converge.

The 'hook' was the pinnacle of this technology was that to get the full effect of the holographic and even tactile nature of this technology you had to take a 'stimulant' of sorts.

Looking at the issues in a wider sense, to take the technology further still, this kind of 'tricking' of the senses must be the logical step. It is scary how close to the truth that series was for 1993. It was set in 2007.