One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms 122
An anonymous reader noted a USC research project that is coming ever closer to bringing the classic Star Wars communication holograms from Tatooine to Earth. There's nifty video and some high resolution pictures of Tie Fighters projected into 3-D. Still no clear way to project it from an astro mech droid, but I'm sure that's coming.
Cutting edge 2007 technology! (Score:2, Funny)
Glad to see it's on the fast track to the marketplace with the whole second ./ posting in three years....
Re:Wow. Just... WOW! (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, some of the first color TV designs used spinning mirrors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_TV [wikipedia.org]
I don't think I would want 40" of glass spinning at 20Hz in my living room. Shrapnel.
That's what a bunch of engineers at RCA thought, when they pushed for an all-electronics solution, without mechanical stuff.
So call me when this thing works without high speed movable parts.
Oh, and disclaimer, my father worked for RCA, and told me a lot of funny stories about the birth of color TV. During one of the first tests, transmitting a color picture of a fruit bowl from RCA's research site in Princeton to New York city, one of the engineers painted the banana blue. The folks at the receiving side fiddled with their color adjustments, and announced: "Well, the banana looks ok, but all the colors on the other fruit are wrong."
Of course, they had tried to adjust on the banana first. Even back then, nerdy geeks did nerdy pranks!
Vuvuzelas (Score:3, Funny)
If you view it on Youtube they've conveniently added a button that adds the sound of vuvuzelas, if that makes it more authentic.
Re:Old news... (Score:3, Funny)
I think this tells us something about the internet as an informational medium. Old news, but how many of us heard of it for the first time today? I know I never saw the 2008 posting, nor would I have frequented whatever site that link is from. Makes you wonder how many things, neat or otherwise, are simply lost to a digital wasteland.
Hey, now, around here you're supposed to get viscerally angry when a non-optimal event occurs. Check that introspective, mellow attitude at the door, mister!