Tag Archives: Hologram

Holograms aren’t just for dead celebrities anymore. In fact, it might not be long before you’re attending a virtual work meeting with lifelike, 3D representations of your colleagues. That’s the future Google is working toward: The company says it’s expanding testing of its Project Starline, 3D video call booths where you can chat with holographic versions of your friends, family or coworkers. After testing the booths in its own offices over the past year, the company now intends to place them… Source link

MLB’s Field of Dreams Game was a big hit last season, and fans could only wonder how the league could top it with its follow-up on Thursday. A big clue came on Wednesday, when a report emerged that Fox was testing a hologram of the late Harry Caray, the legendary Chicago Cubs broadcaster who died in 1998, for the Chicago Cubs-Cincinnati Reds game. A source, however, told reporter Timothy Burke that the footage was “unconvincing” and “possibly offensive.” That made quite a few fans more than a… Source link

“Presence is everything.” So says Nigel Tierney, Head of Content for immersive tech incubator Yahoo Ryot Lab, and the creative director helming the media giant’s second season as NYFW’s official innovation partner. Referring to more than just eyeballs, today the lab kicks off a three-part WebAR-based transmedia activation that will hurl British fashion designer Christian Cowan, in the form of a hyperreal 360°-viewable hologram, directly into the homes of fans anywhere and… Source link

Bavor’s latter observation is somewhat subjective and a sample of one. The former is a phenomenon that’s actually being studied, now that office workers have spent the past 14 months taking meetings through screens. We are more distracted during video meetings, according to research from Microsoft, and it’s partly a coping mechanism to protect ourselves from the mental strain of too many video meetings. In this context Google’s Project Starline seems especially over-engineered, an… Source link

HONG KONG, Oct. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — 5G, also known as the fifth generation of mobile communication technology, is the latest generation of cellular mobile communication technology. Simply put, it is an extension of 4G, 3G, and 2G systems. As the latest generation of mobile communication technology, 5G features high data rates, reduced latency, energy savings, reduced costs, increased system capacity, and large-scale device connection. However, for ordinary consumers, the most… Source link