3D Holographic TV Within 5 – 10 Years!
The prospect of having 3D holographic TV in the home within a decade appears now to be a certainty, after a tremendous breakthough in research was announced yesterday by a team based at the University of Arizona.
Researchers there have devised the world’s first recordable holographic system that not only refreshes at the rate of once per 2 seconds (much faster than any previous system), it can also beam the image in realtime across the internet in less than a second.
This is a massive step forward and makes the prospect of holo-tv a likely near future reality. In fact, members of the team reckon that commercial applications of the technology could be available within several years, and holo-tvs in the home within 7 – 10 years. Also to be borne in mind is the fact that rival teams (especially in Korea and Japan) are working on their own forms of holo-tv. As the competition increases, and with the certainty of riches for the first to make a commercial holographic tv, that time scale could seem pessimistic in only a couple more years time.
To put the progress the Arizona researchers have made in such a short time into context, only 2 years ago their technology had a refresh rate measured in minutes, and could only display black and white images. Now the refresh rate has increased by a hundred times and the images are displayed in (primitive) colour.
The images in the video below may not look spectacular, and a long way off from high-definition holograms in your living room, but bear in mind the progress made in only 2 years time, and imagine what another 2 -5 years work will bring – especially with the likely increase in funding that the team will get.