Mar 21
Not since Donald Duck faced off against Daffy Duck in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? has there been such an epic piano battle as Japanese pianist Yoshiki squaring off against a holographic version of himself.
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Jan 28
When Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan couldn’t make it to the city of Izmir last Sunday to give a speech, he wasn’t too bothered—because he decided he’d give it by hologram instead.
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Nov 15
Holograms are cool enough on their own
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Sep 16
Last week we brought you inside the kooky but wonderful Holographic Studios
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Sep 13
Holograms occupy a strange place in our visual culture. Encountering a genuinely innovative holographic image can elicit wonder and joy, yet the technology has struggled to transcend election night gimmicks and Tupac exploitation
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Aug 29
For decades, we’ve been waiting for oh-so-futuristic hologram technology to make the leap from Star Wars movies to our living rooms, and it hasn’t. It sounds like it’s right around the corner, though, after Skype announced that it had developed 3D video chat technology in the lab.
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Aug 24
The hologram interfaces
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Jul 26
Holograms have always been a quick, easy way for movies to tell us they’re taking place in the future. As soon as you see someone talking with a human-sized hologram, you realize there’s no way you’ll ever be able to do that, and a part of you dies. Now, a company on Kickstarter promises to bring you the holographic future you’ve always dreamed of.
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Jun 30
New methods for producing color holographic video are here, and they could lead to cheaper, higher res and more energy efficient TVs. Daniel Smalley, a researcher at MIT, built a holographic display with about the same resolution as a standard-definition TV, which is able to depict motion because it updates its image 30 times a second. The display is run by an optical chip that Smalley made in his lab for about $10.
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Mar 07
Whether you like gesture control or not, Leap Motion’s fine-grain floating-finger input looks like pure future. And it only gets better when you’re controlling a pseudo-hologram with it. And that’s exactly what Robbie Tilton did with his Tony Stark-worthy setup. More »
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