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Hello, Holographic Video!
It's hard to believe, but that nifty new flat-panel monitor you just shelled out a small fortune for will someday be a dust-covered relic. Your children or grandchildren may one day plug it in and gasp in awe at how primitive it is: It only displays in two dimensions!You can't fight the future. According to this article in the MIT Technology Review, affordable holographic video displays, powered by existing computer hardware, are right around the corner. Let's take a look at the possibilities:
I imagine the technology will be put to good use.
According to the article, "A holographic video display could provide another way to view medical images such as MRIs and CT scans, as well as sets of complex, multidimensional data and designs for furniture and cars..." Theoretically such an innovation would revolutionize medicine or industrial design. But you and I all know what the technology is REALLY for: Games and porn.
Projecting holographic video (a technology that involves broadcasting light rays that interfere with each other in a specific diffraction pattern that matches the outline of a 3D object) is tricky stuff. Previous generations of the hardware were as big as a dining room table, not to mention expensive. But the "Mark III" holographic video projector, expected to be finished within the next couple of months at an MIT research lab, uses off-the-shelf computer and telecommunications technology to render 3D images at an expected cost of just a couple hundred dollars. Turns out that those state-of-the-art 3D cards we use for videogames have no problem calculating holograms with ease. And your family told you you were wasting your money!
Of course I won't be rushing out to buy such a display for Soul Calibur throwdowns anytime soon -- the Mark III projects a 3D image on a foggy piece of glass roughly the size of a Rubik's cube. Not exactly the perfect venue for admiring state of the art boob-jiggling technology. But it's a start, friends. It's a start.
-Fargo
Today's Geek Stuff:
- The Xbox 360 120 GB Hard Drive -GameSpy
- Sony Announces PlayStation Eye -IGN
- Nintendo's Profits up 77% -IGN
- Realtime Worlds Hints at Crackdown DLC -IGN
- EA Announces Burnout Bandslam Winners -IGN
- Mass Effect: Win a Signed Copy of Revelation -TeamXbox
- Analyst: Supply Won't Meet Demand for the Wii Until 2009 -TeamXbox
- Shadowrun Beta: The End is Nigh! -TeamXbox
- New Pokemon Sells 1m in Five Days -Next Generation
- BAFTA Game Awards 2007 Detailed -Next Generation
- Mario Tops Japanese Charts -Next Generation
- Blue Laser Costs Drop; Could PS3 Price Cut Be Far Behind? -GameDaily Biz
- Guitar Hero's Second Encore Rocks -GameDaily Biz
Mod News:
- Half-Life 2 - The Decimation Review & Release! - Planet Half-Life
- Battlefield 2 - US Intervention Update - Planet Battlefield
- Battlefield 2 - Experience World War 2 Update - Planet Battlefield
- Oblivion - Oblivion Mods Update - Planet Elder Scrolls
Hardware Links Courtesy of Voodoo Extreme:
- Boards: Abit and MSI take on the nForce 650i - Tech Report
- Boards: SAPPHIRE Pure Innovation HDMI PI-AM2RS690MHD - Virtual-Hideout
- Cases: Apevia X-QPACK2 SFF Case - 3DGameMan
- Cooling: Cooler Master CoolViva Pro - TechAge
- Cooling: Noctua NC-U6 - XS Reviews
- Cooling: Noctua NC-U6 Chipset Cooler - 3DGameMan
- Cooling: Zalman Reserator 2 Fanless Liquid-Cooling System - Xbit Labs
- CPU: 8-Core Intel Xeon 'V8" Sneak Peek - Dual Quads - Hot Hardware
- Memory: DDR3 Memory Modules from Super Talent - Hardware Secrets
- Memory: Kingston KHX9600D2K2/1GB Memory Kit - Hardware Logic
- Memory: Super Talent DDR2 1000 (T1000UX2G4) 2GB - Gideontech
- Mice: Cyber Snipa S.W.A.T. Laser Gaming Mouse - Tweaknews
- Mice: Logitech MX 610 Left-Hand Laser Cordless Mouse - Overclockers Club
- Pads: SteelPad 5L Professional Gaming Mouse Pad - The Tech Zone
- Pads: XTracPads Zoom - TechPowerUp
- Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W - Tweaknews
- Power Supply: Thermaltake ToughPower 1200W - [H]
- Power Supply: Ultra 850VA UPS - Bjorn3D
- Video: BFG Tech GeForce 8600GTS OC - Tweaktown
- Video: eVGA e-GeForce 8600 GT 256 MB Superclocked - Guru3D
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