Manchester airport hires Holograms (almost)

[witchy1]

I know many of you will point this out if I don’t say it first: Musion’s EyeSay displays aren’t real holograms. They are simply lifelike rear projections on a well made surface that tricks your eye into accepting it as a three dimensional image. (You can clearly see the lens flare from the projector in the center of the video above at 0:21.) That’s okay, for this purpose we don’t need real holograms. As we’ve seen in previous coverage of Musion (http://singularityhub.com/2009/12/18/old-trick-enhances-modern-3d-video-teleconferencing/), these faux ‘holograms’ are sophisticated enough to give viewers the sense that they are sharing their space with a real 3D person.

Eventually we’ll probably see a switch from rear projections to actual holograms and other 3D technologies that don’t have as great of spatial requirements. We’ve already seen some early holographic video displays that are promising (http://singularityhub.com/2010/12/16/3d-hologram-prints-invade-military-commercial-design-videos/).

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http://singularityhub.com/2011/02/24/manchester-airport-hires-holograms-to-help-passengers-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SingularityHub+%28Singularity+Hub%29

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Thanks for posting Witchy. I need one to ward off insurance salesmen please :)

had you seen this?

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[Circe]

Talking about Holograms, does anyone remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=demh7Whc96s

Celine Dion appeared to walk out and stand next to Elvis as the two sang a duet of the classic "If I can Dream." ... Elvis was indeed a hologram.

The estimated cost of this was said to have cost between $50,000 to $100,000 and it is said it took months and months to create. Prior to the performance, Celine practiced with an Elvis impersonator.

[witchy1]

Thanks Circe I hadn't seen that before. Pretty amazing stuff - just imagine what they can do that we dont know about yet???