Hologram

[rob444]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/31/researchers-develop-a-360-degree-holographic-display/

Quite cool :D

[ashley watts]

Snazzy :p though i would of thought we would be more ahead in technology than we currently are i must admit :p

[Serious_Sam]

Snazzy :p though i would of thought we would be more ahead in technology than we currently are i must admit :p

You can thank 600 years of Christian oppression for that (the Dark Ages).

[Dribble Joy]

This has been around for a while.

Re: 'Real' holograms. A long long long way off, to the point that they barely have potential at the theoretical level. Getting thin air to glow without stupidly high energy levels and/or magnetic fields (that would render the whole thing pointless) is near enough impossible.

Where 'holograms' might be introduced is via the means that NC's RPOS works. An implant or glasses/contact lens that projects onto the retina, giving the illusion of a 3D model.

A brilliant example of how it might look comes in the anime Dennou Coil (http://www.tokuma.co.jp/coil/).

Here's an image showing how the glasses work.

http://www.tokuma.co.jp/coil/image/story/e_glasses.jpg

The dog is a cyber-pet, and the red thing is a sort of AI-policeman that clears up corrupted 'space' (the entire town is wirelessly layered with a cyber-world) and other things.

[Mr Kot]

Re: 'Real' holograms. A long long long way off, to the point that they barely have potential at the theoretical level. Getting thin air to glow without stupidly high energy levels and/or magnetic fields (that would render the whole thing pointless) is near enough impossible.
So we won't be seeing much of this guy, then?


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Rimmer1.jpg

[silent000]

So we won't be seeing much of this guy, then?


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Rimmer1.jpg

is that....HARRY POTTER?

[Lodar]

You all realise that I'm merely a hologram running off Nidhogg's spare 486 don't you? And they say we're too far behind for that kind of technology :p

PS: Arnold Rimmer ftw!

[Dribble Joy]

Lies.

It's a 286 at best :p.

[Apocalypsox]

Id actually buy one of those mirrors. Encase it in some lightweight bulletproof glass, and give it some way to input any image to it, and Cool shit :D

[marsbarz]

His last name is Rimmer?

[zii]

He licks the toilets rim. At least, thats what he did while he was alive.

[dezuzi]

i dare you to touch that hologram..

[rob444]

I bet it comes with one of those american warning texts: "Do no insert penis"