If you remember how Princess Leia appeared as a ‘hologram’ in the original Star Wars movie, you’ll find this new technology incredibly exciting. Why? Because for the very first time, we have the ability to project an image into space…in real 3D:
I cannot stress the importance of this technology enough. VR is exciting and impressive, but AR – Augmented Reality – will become a part of our lives much, much faster. Why? Because the uses are almost unlimited. Imagine walking down the street and having a full-colour, 3D advertisement step out from the wall and ‘talk’ just to you.
Okay, adverts you can’t escape are probably a terrible example, but what about crafts? Instead of looking up a youtube video clip, you could snap your fingers and have a 3D presentation appear in your workshop, loungeroom, kitchen, whatever. You could look at that presentation from the back, front, side, top or even from the bottom for those tiny details that aren’t normally visible in 2D.
Well, this new volumetric display technology could well be the innovation that allows us to do all that and so much more.
-mumble- Those scientists might want to change the name though. VD just does not have the right ring to it. 😦
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Meeks
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January 29th, 2018 at 5:13 pm
3d craft videos!!! where do I sign up, lol. 🌼
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January 30th, 2018 at 9:10 am
-grin- Get in line Silversmith! 😀
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January 29th, 2018 at 3:43 pm
Craft or Princess Leia? I know which one I wanna see more!
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January 30th, 2018 at 9:11 am
rofl! I wouldn’t mind learning how to change a tap washer. Plumbers cost the EARTH!
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January 30th, 2018 at 10:53 am
They do. I wish we covered some of that in school instead of having to calculate the orbits of planets.
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January 30th, 2018 at 4:35 pm
-blush- I can’t do the orbits thing either. 😦
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January 31st, 2018 at 11:58 pm
I can’t anymore!
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February 1st, 2018 at 8:37 am
😀
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January 29th, 2018 at 8:08 am
Wow! I don’t understand it….but wow! The part in the video that did resonate was ‘printing in air’.
You know when I realised that a new age had come? When I saw a website address on the side of a plumber’s van. If plumbers had got into it, it must be here to stay. Maybe it was me being slow on the uptake!
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January 29th, 2018 at 10:46 am
lmao – no! You’ve put your finger on it exactly. That is precisely when a technology becomes ‘mainstream’. 😀
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January 28th, 2018 at 9:09 am
This is exciting. The beauty of the human mind is if we can imagine it we can eventually figure out how to make it real. I just hope augmented VR doesn’t become another ‘game’ for content thieves, bullies, sex freaks, and cheats.
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January 28th, 2018 at 5:04 pm
I hope so too but honestly? Our tech is always two steps forward, one step back because human nature is almost equally divided between altruism and greed.
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January 29th, 2018 at 9:03 am
Yes. We enthusiastically adopt a technology and have to do clean up when we hit the inevitable downside.
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January 29th, 2018 at 10:43 am
Yup. We may be the thinking ape but we’re not the cautious ape!
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January 29th, 2018 at 11:06 am
That lack of caution serves us well when we want to build the kind of technology that took us to the Moon. We’re such a strange species, godlike and terrified of it.
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January 29th, 2018 at 11:07 am
Strange? Oh my goodness yes. 😀
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January 27th, 2018 at 4:07 pm
Wow, that’s pretty amazing. But I agree—VD might not be the best name. 😄
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January 27th, 2018 at 5:34 pm
-giggles- Nope 🙂
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January 27th, 2018 at 2:24 pm
Very exciting indeed, Meeks! Can’t wait for the home holodecks, like in DS9. Or better yet, the proof that the universe itself is holographic. So much fun to see new tech and imagine all the possibilities! These are just the baby steps.
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January 27th, 2018 at 3:14 pm
lol – I feel the same Candace. I can hardly wait for the next ‘wave’ of tech to arrive. I still remember the first time I saw an advert for a computer on TV. I’d been in the industry for a while, but suddenly I knew that a new age had arrived. 🙂
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January 27th, 2018 at 1:38 pm
Hello Meeks. Many of our greatest blockbuster sci-fi movies have already used that idea of real time advertisements leaping out at you in seeming empty space. You are correct companies are working overtime on it. Remember the idea that you could get real estate advertisements on your phone by driving by places? There were other examples of using tech to target people, but this will grow with time. Great post. You seem to have a way of seeing what is coming with the combination of tech and people. Hugs
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January 27th, 2018 at 3:18 pm
Hi Scottie! Yes, it’s the next wave but each wave is coming faster and faster. The geek in me is thrilled, but at the same time I’m worried because often enthusiasm for new ‘toys’ runs ahead of mundane considerations such as security. The mobile banking thing is an example. I know it’s convenient, but we won’t know how secure the system is until the first big scam hits. I hope it doesn’t, but…-shrug-
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January 27th, 2018 at 1:30 pm
LOL! Back when VR was science fiction to most people, I was working at a VR applications company as the marketing director. The job had two big benefits—no one could ever guess what I did for a living so I got a lot of free drinks AND I tried all the VR first hand. Now that the world is catching up with the technology, I really like the kind of practical applications you talk about. The time has finally come.
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January 27th, 2018 at 3:19 pm
-giggles- Candy Korman you are WASTED on mystery. You should be writing sci-if like me. Seriously. And yes, the next 5-10 years will see some dramatic changes. 🙂
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