Nov 05
Tupac performed as a hologram alongside Snoop Dogg Lion at Coachella. The Republican party has created a Reagan hologram. And now TLC wants to resurrect the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes in hologram form for a reunion tour. More »
Sep 25
A few months ago, a “hologram” Tupac joined Snoop Dogg on stage and excited the world about the potential for holograms to resurrect dead celebrities. There was only one problem: it wasn’t a hologram, and it wasn’t three-dimensional. That’s because most modern holograms don’t provide the resolution needed to deliver a convincing person. Nanotechnology may hold the answer to higher-resolution holograms: a team from the University of Cambridge have used carbon nanotubes as nanometer-wide pixels,making them the smallest ever scattering elements.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Stanley display does mid-air images, Kinect hack allows you to chat with holographic avatars,
Sep 11
Here’s the One Thing I Want to See at Apple’s iPhone 5 Event (Spoiler: A Steve Jobs Hologram) [Video]
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Too bad Digital Domain, the company who made the Tupac hologram, is going bankrupt because seeing a Steve Jobs hologram at tomorrow’s iPhone 5 event would be the best One More Thing… ever. Seriously, just watch this humorous video to see what a rapping Steve Jobs hologram would look like. More »
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Jun 28
The Invention of Morel: This Story Puts Hologram Tupac to Shame [Book Report]
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Often, I have dreams in which people close to me who have died are brought back to life—sometimes fully living, sometimes as what my dream-self understands to be a hologram. This is probably pretty common, and I usually think nothing of it, but this morning I woke after one such dream and thought instantly of a book I’d read around this time last year. More »
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