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Week 4 [06.11-12.11] - Holographic displays

Constantly evolving technology does not surprise us. TVs, screens, projectors are used to give us incredible results every day. 3D TVs were a surprise, and manufacturers are struggling to make something new. Passing the parameters does not make any impression on anyone, therefore companies want to introduce something new. In Star Wars, the effect shown in the picture was something incomprehensible and unattainable. Is that still the case?




As we all know, 3D TV technology has been a failure. Samsung believes that the problem with the traditional three-dimensional image lies in glasses and a limited number of points of view. The parallax effect that arises on such screens causes the viewer to be tired because of the small difference between the individual plans of the image.
Therefore, the idea of ​​holograms returns. Is it possible to watch 3D effects and even 5d without specialist glasses? YES! The presented technology based on the Samsung patent is shown below in the image where, thanks to the laser light sources and the camera tracking the user's eyes, a three-dimensional image would appear in front of the TV, like a hologram. This effect would not require the use of glasses, so the solution would be less tiring for the eyes.





VR glasses are a very interesting solution. They allow you to see the virtual world and create a vision of being part of it. Unfortunately, users should not use VR glasses for a long time because they can damage their eyesight or feel sick. VR glasses can be obtained using a smartphone, unfortunately the image is poor quality. To get the glasses, the hd smartphone should have a 4K resolution. We anticipate that in 2025 we will be able to use VR technology without the need for glasses, or they will be much smaller and wireless.





You are probably wondering what a holographic TV will be and what the parameters will be. With such answers we have to pause until we create a working prototype.
It is not known when a holographic TV will be created. I hope we get the answer soon.

I encourage you to watch a short YT film. In the movie you will be able to see the history of projectors, and ideas how to display 3D images in the future.



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Comments

Unknown said…
In the era of VR, I don't know if holographic displays are the way to go. To make any sense, the displays would at least have to be enormous (to surround the viewer), or there would need to be special cinemas, where people would be able to walk around the holograms and see them from different angles. This would not be cost effective though. I definitely put more belief in virtual reality and mixed reality than this type of displays.
Unknown said…
Totally agree with you and I don't even know what to add...
Yevhen Shymko said…
I am vary excited about upcoming VR/AR era. It quite true that VR still have to make some steps to achieve usable level. For example computers is just not powerful enough to run desirable resolution and fps. My biggest hope is Pimax: The World's First 8K VR Headset. It is not released yet but release date 2018 Q1 so in few month VR world might be one step closer to VR haven)
Magdalena Popek said…
I don't feel the need to soak in the Virtual Reality. For me the regular display is enough. I have a 3D TV at home and used that feature... once. And it's not only because it was not made well but albo because I found it unneccessary. As Emil said, for the hologram to be actually something worth using it would have to be quite big. If you were to use it at home it would require a lot of space so that the dinosaurs coming out of your TV would not be cut by some table.
Although I’m not a fan of VR, I think that it’s much better way to go than holographic displays. With the fraction of cost and effort we can achieve the same effect as with the upcoming holographic technology. In my opinion the whole holographic TV thing is just a bubble which will pop few months after they appear on market.
Vladlen Kyselov said…
Holographic displays in my opinion will soon be widely used in the IT field. This is still a technology in the development stage, but I hope that soon everyone will be able to buy such tools for use. To be honest, it's still difficult for me to imagine where this development can be used, but it's only a matter of time before everyone can understand the scope in which it can be used and where it will be of use.
Unknown said…
This is the nearest future of media technologies, in my opinion. Imagine cinemas with 3D movies that aren't required special glasses. Imagine interacting with virtual reality without VR glasses. I think, in 20-30 years such displays will be the common thing in every house.
I guess ita pretty interesting idea for places like a museum. From year to year, the interest of rare endangered animals grows up. Some of them will be exterminated or disappear in the near future, and that kind of technology could help our children to explore them and see in 3d how they looked like.
I'm really looking forward when this will get to mainstream production. I would like to have an ability to make a video call with my co-workers from all around the world as they were sitting in the same room. I think I saw it once in a fantasy movie and I am waiting about 20 years to make it real. We already had video calls - now it is time for holographic calls.
Unknown said…
First of all, i would like to admit that I don't personally think that the 3D TVs were complete failure. Moreover, I think that the VR glasses are the wrong direction to move. I think that the developers must focus on creating real holograms an projectors for them. For example, those devices that they had in Star Wars, I would waste my money on such device.

VR technology is a very interesting solution that certainly provides an amazing experience. Unfortunately, the limitation is the computing power of graphics cards. To use Pimax you will need GTX 1080Ti or even 2 SLI connected.
Unknown said…
Nah, AR is the future. With Hololens I don't need VR, want to keep in touch with reality for a little bit longer yet. Reality just extended? That's like a reality DLC not something entirely different like VR.
Unknown said…
I like the idea of Samsung's holographic display, but there is one problem with it. From what I understand, it works only for one person. If the display of the TV is based on eye motion and position, then the illusion is visible correctly only to one person. It's impossible to have 2 or more different versions of picture on the same TV not interfering with each other. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Unknown said…
Holographic displays "as displays in general"? Brilliant idea!
Holographic displays for TVs? Yet another overpriced gimmick which will die like 3D-TV did.
Why so?
Okay, what was the last time you sat on your couch, turned on your 4KHDSMART3DTV, loaded "a legal copy for personal use" of a specially formatted bluray 3D movie, put on the NextGen 3dGlasses (polarized, not the shutter ones) and managed to watch the entire movie like this?
Never? Well guess what, you are among the great majority of people who own 3D-capable TV!
These "brilliant ideas" are bad by design, and Samsung can (and will) bring anything to prove their point, because they make money on those gadgets.
The truth is, nobody will watch holographic news, or walk through football players during a match, and when it comes to movies, people will use it, once, or twice if they invite their friends/family, to show off "a new SMART tv thingy daddy bought last weekend".
Holographic displays are good when it comes to public-space services or some mobile wearables (let it be the famous Omni-tool from mass effect series), not in our houses, where it will be another space-taking clank...
When it comes to VR/AR - AR is the way to go. It doesn't need cables, and it really AUGMENTS the current reality. Also its cost is lower than VR, because we don't have to render the whole scene, just fragments we are interested in. Besides - VR can't be true "Virtual" when you are handling two clanky components which pretend to be guns, or when you are sitting in the chair while running in the game.
For now, its just like it was with "HD"- does anyone still remember that "HD" refers for 720p? And FullHD stands for 1080p? How can a 1280x720 resolution be called "HD", when even some low-end smartphone has higher resolution nowadays? And so it is with the famous VR - its basically "moving 360 view", nothing more with "reality"...
Andrzej Gulak said…
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Maciej Główka said…
I think an idea of holographic display is very good. It will be next big step after 3d monitors. However, I don't think that TVs are best device to introduce this technology to our homes. I've heard about some mobile company, who tries to create a mobile with such screen. For me this is a better use case for holographic display. Will companies conquer holographic technology? I hope so.
Unknown said…
I'm surprised that VR can damage my eyesight. I was planning on buying this. But as it seems it's better to wait for good and health safe solutions. I don't see how we can use VR without glasses. It must be projecting the image all around us. When 3D started to showing up in last years, many internet portals were informing us that it was doomed to failure. And they were right about it.
Tomasz Morawski said…
I'm not really sure what you meant by 5D :D
Although I believe the VR/AR is the future and in few years it'd probably conquer most of homes, I'm not really fan of it. I had a chance to use it once or twice but it wasn't an experience I enjoyed. Maybe it's because it's too immersive for me and I prefer more "earthbound" feelings.
As for the holographic TV, I'm quite sceptical about it. I'd most probably be another quickly forgotten toy like 3D TVs.
I don’t think that VR will be as huge and people in its industry are trying to make it but AR will be in my opinion. AR gives us enormous possibilities of not only making entertainment but also easing out workloads, getting creative with sculpting tools using our hands without need for clay or other sculpting materials or even working in groups. With AR we can cut down costs on materials and office space - imagine having ever changing rooms suited for each type of workload u want to create music go on here is your virtual mixer on a table , want to draw not a problem with almost infinite ink, pencils and paper or maybe u want to make a group presentation that's not a problem too just pop in your presentation into a program to be displayed on a wall without need for any additional accessories.
Wireless Vr Headsets are closer than one might expect first wireless adapter is to be launched in late 2018 for HTC Vive wit this we would eliminate one of the 3 problems of current VR what's left is miniaturising and having it be easier to run(pc spec wise).
Why not use the AR to do this? With a monitor, or a TV screen serving as the backdrop and the AR's screen displaying the overlay image it should be theoretically possible.

Or even better make an AR with two separate screens, one for each eye. Each screen could display a slightly shifted video to create the illusion of depth. We already see this in cinemas, with the passive 3D glasses.

Unknown said…
At this moment I'm sceptical about this idea and I'm quite sure that I'm not going to buy it right away after release. I've made that mistake when 3D was released and after I watched first movie I had a headache...
I hope this technology will be better refined.
Unknown said…
Holographic images is a great idea, but attaching it to a TV is just a waste of potential that such a technology has. VR is in my opinion a not very good solution. It trick one of your sense and lefts the other to adapt on their own which can lead to weird and unnatural sensations, for example when the movement is involved. The AR is much more promising technology that could potentially revolutionise the current process of consuming media. Not just entertainment sector could benefit on AR. Jobs that require complicated machinery to be bought and plugged in to the computer could be substituted by a representation of said device. For now all these technologies are not yet ready enough to be ground breaking, but they definitely show a lot of potential.
Zygmunt Z said…
As other people wrote, I have to admit that holographic display would be a good idea in the "VR era". Although VR affects on your senses but I don't think it harms any of them very much in the longer run. I have heard about cases that people felt dizzy but it didn't last long. Also VR is possible to achieve similar effect with a fraction of work and costs. Another thing is that such holographic display had to be big enough to entertain people. With VR lenses everything is much easier to achieve and the most basic solutions are way way cheaper than the most primitive holographic display will ever be.
The biggest problem of VR and AR in general is a need of secondary device you look through to see the effect. If holographic displays would be entirely independent without a need to look through anything to see it, then that would be simply put awesome and I'd buy a few myself.

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