Friday last week marked an historic achievement – the transmission of images via holography over long distance (see the recent Torygraph article).
OK. so the use of holography isn’t that new. For a while. HP has been looking into holographic data storage (and strugglng to develop a commercially viable application). And even good ol Prince Charlie had a go at the recent Climate Conference. But until now, live bidirectional holography wasn’t commercialy possible or viable. And OK, so this currently costs c£35K, but given the current state of technological development, I’m wondering how long it will be before this is a facility that all phones are developed with.
And how long before some smart alec develops the Star Trek Holodeck? Now that WOULD be cool…
Second life, schmecond life. I’m struggling to stay in touch with this one.