Using commonly available components, a team of experts at Queen's University has recently developed a pod capable of displaying holographic representations of objects or persons that are somewhere else. The system largely consists of a series of 6 Microsoft Kinect sensors, a 3D projection unit, a convex mirror ... |
4 May 2012
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Some time ago, a group of researchers proposed that we may be living in a three-dimensional projection of a bi-dimensional space. The hologram Universe theory rallied a number of adepts, but a new research is proving that some of its most basic tenants are flawed.Astrophysicist Craig Hogan first proposed that the Uni... |
6 July 2011
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Technologies originally developed for space have been used for a host of civilian applications for a long time, and it would appear that now it's time for adaptive optics to get a new twist. The study method has recently been fine-tuned for looking inside cells, rather than at the most distant stars.Whenever ast... |
11 February 2011
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Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) managed to achieve the highest frame rate for holographic videos, and to set a firm foundation for holographic TV sets, by using nothing more than an Xbox Kinect and a standard graphics chip.The researchers used this setup to streaming holographic video nearl... |
24 January 2011
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Experts are one small step away from making holographic videoconferencing a reality, as shown by a recent achievement made by a team of researchers at the University of Arizona. They create a new system that can project holographic images nearly in real-time.What's special about this device is that it can transm... |
4 November 2010
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One of the most interesting ideas in theoretical physics today is that our Universe may in fact by just a 3D projection of a 2D world that exists in a finite bandwidth.Some researchers say that our existence, and that of everything around us, could be compared to a very high-definition 3D video, that unfolds within c... |
29 October 2010
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are currently being used for a variety of applications, from surveillance and monitoring to understanding how the planet's atmosphere is structured and keeping an eye on volcanoes. But one of the main limitations these machines have is their “vision,” which is also argu... |
4 May 2010
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One of the things most people know about light is that it tends to travel in a straight line. This is made obvious by the fact that when you place your hand between a source of light and your face, you no longer see the light. If photons were to be traveling in a chaotic manner, without a sense of direction, then we ... |
18 January 2010
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Some modern cars have been endowed with Heads-Up Displays (HUD) over recent years, namely systems that project useful information about a car directly on the interior of the front car window. This means that drivers no longer have to take their eyes off the road, in order to get a clue of how fast they are going, how... |
16 October 2009
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Nano-structuring steel surfaces holographically is one of the most forgery-proof ways in the world to ensure that a product is not falsified once it leaves the production plants. And while hologram markers are already placed on a large array of products, from music CDs to cell phone batteries, none of the existing te... |
26 June 2009
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Up until quite recently, holograms seemed to be something one could really encounter solely in science fiction movies or novels, but the developments of modern technology have taken this concept a lot closer to reality. And one of the latest such innovations comes from Japan (where else?), in the form of a color holo... |
19 November 2008
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Holograms are usually produced with the help of laser systems, which copy the image of a real three-dimensional object onto a photosensitive material such as Fotoresist. In doesn't mean though that only optical techniques are able to create holograms. For example, embossing holograms of steel plates with the hel... |
7 March 2008
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New imaging technique brings significant improvements in 3D images of individual molecules. Soon, this discovery might be used by biologists interested in how the shapes of proteins and other components of life relate to their function.Molecular holograms are an advanced form of photography that allows an image to b... |
11 June 2007
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