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Straight Out Of Star Trek – The Holograph Is Here

written by John Chow on April 3, 2007

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Holographs have certainly come a long way. The above is a video clip of a NYC Lexus dealership running a Vizoo holographic projector. This projector offers an interactive display for Lexus that allows users to select models and colors before beaming them into the indoor space for a 360-degree walk around of the life-size virtual vehicle.

The presentation is so realistic that the dealership is drawing too big of a crowd for its own good. You can see cops toward the end of video telling people to move along. Whatever Lexus paid to have this holographic billboard created, it got its money’s worth.

Below is a Vizoo corporate video showing the use and benefit of their holographic display. I have to admit, that look pretty wild. I wonder how much the projector cost, and how long before they make the objects solid so we can have a holodeck. :twisted:

Source: Autoblog

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next thing you know they will have boxes that heat food in the matter of second :twisted:

captain kurk would faint at the idea of such power in the hands of seo experts.

Holographic technology has come a long way. I remember reading about a company in Toronto that developed a holographic projector which allows you to "touch" the hologram and move it around. You can't feel the hologram though. Eventually, like in scifi movies, we'll have "hard light" that you can touch (i.e. Star Trek's holodeck).

Hard light and reliving sci-fi movie moments; very interesting stuff. :smile: I wonder what Captain Kirk would make of this... :cool:

Awesome...what about a female host for the Lexus dealership...scantily clad of course :twisted:

I actually work fulltime at lexus and I think its great that they did something so innovative

Now that is cool!

You should make a John Chow hologram that we can buy and take home :smile:

I hope I could hear the sounds... I got a rotten speaker here :cry:

I think you need at last a very good (and expensive) audio surround system with this thing...

Who needs sound with this thing?

I need to get me one of those!

Not bad, though I don't think it is revolutionary. Still a long way before we reach Star Trek.

light years or so? :cool:

Light year is a measure for distance, not time. Am I smart or what? :twisted:

Right now...someone is thinking of how to implement this in porn.

hahaha . . . i think that someone is you! Actually, you're probably thinking of how you could engulf yourself in the projection of a big block of cheese! hahahah!

Hahahahahaha! Let's wait for that but i think its really you

It's just like in that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The 6th Day -- Michael Rappaport's character had a holographic "special friend." :cool:

Is there someone who can point me to a page where it's explained how this thing works? :???:

It works with the help of gizmo's and gadgets :mrgreen:

Yah this is really cool. I can't wait until they have these in common place.

Adam

I have to buy one!! :shock:

You'll be able to afford a Porsche sooner than that :smile:

Any idea of the cost of the projector?

FT

This is the only official answer I could find.

http://3dscreen.ramboll.dk/faq.asp#_Toc153164562

There seems to be a couple of options and in each of those you buy the glass pyramid and then you can rent the other equipment needed or buy the other equipment.

I would expect 5 or 6 figures at a guess.

Hm... looks pretty sweet.

gotta love technology

you sure need to love it! :mrgreen:

Amish people wouldn't agree with you :mrgreen:

Thats cool and reminds me a little of the Helio display although that works slightly different.

Another cool one is at the link below which created somekind of plasma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He2QTpelAjE

thanks for the vid mat!!

Very cool, great videos. I just did a search for the company and they are Danish. Im in Denmark right now, I could go visit the inventor lol.

I can't even Imagen how it works either, without being projected onto a surface. From the second video it seems like there is a three sided "net" around, maybe this is how it works.

Please make sure for us these are not fake.. cool videos nonetheless!

I watched them a dozen times, magnificent

Very interesting indeed!

Technology is getting more sophisticated every day :cool:

John - you mean Holo-Deck, right?

Why is Holodeck wrong? Then Holograph would also be incorrect :neutral:

does anyone watch Star Trek anymore?

It hasn't been on my TV station over the last couple of years..

Wow that's incredible. I can't even begin to imagine how the hell they did it.

Next we'll have iris scanners and personalized hologram billboards like in Minority Report.

Crystals, man! Crystals!

*shrug*