“The technology could be used to produce a new generation of televisions, computer monitors and cinema screens that would provide viewers with a more realistic experience,” Gray reports. “The system relies upon a special screen that is dotted with tiny pixel-sized domes that deflect images taken from slightly different angles into the right and left eye of the viewer.”
Gray reports, “Apple also proposes using 3D imaging technology to track the movements of multiple viewers and the positions of their eyes so that the direction the image is deflected by the screen can be subtly adjusted to ensure the picture remains sharp and in 3D. The patent claims this technology would also create images that appear to be holographic because of the ability to track the observers movements.”
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OMG I wonder how they would do this k mean are they gonna have a light at the bottom who knows
Sorry can someone interpret that comment
I think Dawood wrote his piece in Korean and then used google to translate it.
Sounds to me that Dawood is from Dahood.
That, or he’s just your average American teenager.
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Because of Star Wars and the “holodeck” in Star Trek, some people imagine “holographic” to mean a 3D image projected in open space. But this is a realistic “holographic display,” where there is an actual “special screen” that tricks the user into seeing not only a 3D image, but one that changes its orientation as the viewer moves his head.
I’ll think if it this way… 2D is both eyes seeing the same image from a fixed point. 3D is each eye seeing a slightly different offset image, but still from a fixed point. “Holographic” is 3D plus the ability for the viewer to move the point of view at will. I think it will be impractical to film the real world to create a holographic movie, but it should be very possible (given another ten years or so) to create a realistic virtual world where the computer creates every possible point of view “as needed” (on the fly).
I think all would have been good had Dawood simply added an exclamation point after OMG and left it at that: “OMG!”
Seems like an appropriate comment for the article.
@Ken1w… Sorry, Ken, but the ST Holodeck is precisely what I would like to see. True, this patent may not go that far yet. But that, to me, is the eventual goal. 3D images “projected in open space” have been envisioned for years prior to Star Trek. Little by little, even what at one time had seemed to be the most incredible imaginings have materialized, or are on their way. I think that time travel will likely be one of the furthest down the road. But, even that has already had scientific underpinnings in place for many years. So, Apple may not have a true Holodeck experience for us yet, but I would like to think that such is the direction we are heading.
@spyinthesky LOL.
But I’m sure in thought it was supposed to ask where and how they would… Actually, I don’t know.
The patent sounds very interesting though. Thats the only downside to 3D anyway. The glasses.
Ken, I might also refer you to my own 1895 book, The Time Machine, as an earliest major envisioning of time travel. Although many others existed, my favorite early holodeck-type experience was found in the opening to Arthur C. Clarke’s 1956 book, City and the Stars.
The headline is wrong: patents almost never reveal “plans” – they only reveal ideas, sometimes merely use to prevent others from taking a specific direction.
“@Ken1w… Sorry, Ken, but the ST Holodeck is precisely what I would like to see.”
Personally, I’d like to see the ST ‘Replicator’! Then I can say, “a thousand bucks” and the replicator obliges and then I have the money to buy Apple’s new holographic monitor!
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@ Hg Wells
A real Star Trek “holodeck” would obviously be very cool. But it will take quite “a long while” to not only see “holograms” materialize around you, but also to be able to touch them as if they are real objects. By the time such technology could possibly exist, humans will have figured out how to tap into the brain directly (hopefully more elegantly than in “The Matrix”), and bypass the need to use actual humans senses, such as eyesight and touch. Why alter the entire environment around the “user” when it is far easier to alter the sensory input going to the brain.
@Re: @Hg Wells… I bet you can’t think of many times when you saw actual cash money tossed around aboard the Enterprise. And I know you’re not actually suggesting that $2,000 (one plus one replicated) would be enough to buy one of Apple’s new, currently non-existent, holographic monitors? Think bigger if you’re replicating money. However, once people are able to replicate money this way, all money becomes worthless anyway. Most people don’t want money. They want what money can buy. And it can’t buy everything.
@Ken1w… Physically interacting with a holographic world is much more realistic than bypassing the physical for the purely sensory. You may recall The Menagerie [aka The Cage] where the Talosians lived much of their life in a sensory world and could be intimidated by actual physical/emotional interactions over which they had less control. For people to lose, by disuse, the ability to interact with their physical environment is not a good thing at all. It adds a level of unpredictability to the difficulty and realism of a programmed (or real) scenario.
By the way, Ken, real holographic images outside of the controlled environment of a holodeck would have far more interest than the restrictions of an actual holodeck. I believe we are likely to see holographic projections of our contacts as part of standard “phone” calls before we advance to the complexities of full holodeck scenarios.
If Apple can keep up its 41% compound growth rate then we will be still seeing some pretty impressive long term gains on investment from their stocks
i say buy apple and hold it for 7-10 years and get 10-15x your initial back
Can anyone say, kinect like apps for appleTV?
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@ Hg Wells
I’m not speculating about whether creating a virtual (rather than some “holographic”) world is better or worse for the state of humanity. That’s just scifi-fantasizing. I’m just saying a non-physical “virtual world” is how it’s going to happen, because it’s already happening.
And humans can already create a seemingly realistic “virtual” world with no technology. It’s called a dream. So perhaps such technology can somehow produce and augment that “dream” state so that the experience can be directed externally and experienced consciously.
In any case, common sense says that if it one-day becomes possible to produce a hyper-realistic experience (for all of your senses) through direct sensory input to the brain, technology will NOT be able to “out-do” it with some elaborate (and most likely impractical) physical simulation that requires the body to actually experience the sensations. And (usually), technology that is much more complex and expensive, requires more resources such as power and space, and produces inferior results is not pursued beyond a certain point. “Holography,” as defined in the real (not sci-fi) world, will obviously have its uses, and it may even be the “next step” beyond our current 2D and 3D display technology, but it is unlikely to get to a point of something like a Star Trek “holo-deck.”
Unfortunately, David R Jones, you are blind in one eye following a schoolboy fight and thus this holographic display will not work for you.
uh, this is kinda old news isn’t it? i read about this about a month ago. i just did a google search on it and found this article dated December 1, http://www.macdaddynews.com/?p=7058
Wonder about the “pixels definition”… ??!!
Could all Trekkies please just leave this blog and go to some convention where they can dress up as Klingons and where their comments are more appreciated? Sujatlh ‘e’ yImev!
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… Interestik! Except for the STNG comparisons.
Come on, guys … you – we – won when the “communicator” form factor was used for the first truly “portable” cell phones. Yet, how precise was that? Except for the range, that device had nothing on any of today’s Smart Phones and you could fold a tri-corder in and still not have one of today’s App Phones!
This will be a huge gain for top-flight games and some scientific research/study. It will take a LOT of CPU cycles to power it,
OMG! It’s 3D
And with that
I take off my hat!
To all,,
The image is suspended in the Zenon mist.
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I think it’s clear that 3-D without the need for glasses is coming. Apple isn’t the only one working on it. An Israeli startup recently demonstrated a means of bringing 3-D to TVs without those glasses.
@Ken, Many real world technologies used to be SciFi. Of the really old SciFi, only a small bit has yet to either become reality or have the seeds in place for reality.
Looking back at my 1901 book, First Men in the Moon, much of it seems ridiculous today. But that has long since passed into reality, as has some of Jules Verne’s concepts. Seeds for future development of manipulation, and possible travel, in time have been in place for many years and include some of Einstein’s work. To say it is unlikely that we will get “to a point of something like a Star Trek “‘holo-dec[k]'” may be short sighted, though such would clearly not be short term.
Apple is currently the appropriate company to move us forward even clearly though some of this is still a very long ways away. The vision must be in place first. R&D follows.
Ken and HG,
You guys crack me up. I picture you sitting together sharing a bottle of Zima and discussing the ideological musings of Captain’s Kirk and Picard.
Yes, I can attest to the fact that much of the technology you discuss is relevant and in actuality rather “old hat”. We in the 30th century traipse through glorious meadows in computer generated bliss.
Although we don’t refer to them as “computers” anymore. We simply accept them as the cerebral implants we were born with.
@C3PO Jetson, Sounds like you’re agreeing with the discussion. Others here are still clueless where things are going. Steve Jobs continues to move us forward in the right direction. This is one reasons why it’s exciting to follow Apple™.
As SJ has said, he doesn’t take his lead from the customers. They are not forward thinking enough, as is clearly the case reading some other posts here. He imagines what could be, and moves to make it happen. None of what we’re talking about will happen in the 30th century, as you suggest. Assuming the finances don’t dry up, it could all happen as early as this century.
Look at the massive progress made last century from horse drawn transportation to the moon with unmanned flights to Mars and beyond. Whatever ones feelings on it, the technologies of war and medicine saw massive changes. If that degree of change occurs in the century we are now in, all that we have discussed, and more, might be seen.
My concern is that we may not have the visionaries – with money – we will need for that to occur. I hope Steve Jobs will have a long and healthy life and that others like him will move us forward.
Not to worry HG,
SJ Clone #9 nearly sunk the Apple boat in the late 27th century, but when it was discovered that #9’s cells had been sabotaged by the implantation of latent cells from BG #3 and SB the original, he was transported through the Danuvian worm hole into what we call “the quiet zone”. What really gave it away was the strange little “monkey dance” he would do in private when he thought no one could see him.
SJ #12 is doing a fantastic job in the 30th century and has Apple back on track.
A little side note: For several millennia, no one even knew what an apple was. It wasn’t until the Apple Time Warp™ was perfected that we even got a taste of the fruit you are so familiar with.
Oh and by-the-way, I didn’t say these things would occur in the 30th century, I simply stated that “We in the 30th century…” Obviously much of our current technology was perfected thousands of years ago.
You’ll have to excuse me now. It’s time for my sensory stimulation and nutrient infusion.
I’m back HG.
I also wanted say that you needn’t be concerned with the costs. Money is totally obsolete now. If you contribute to society, your sensory and life force are enhanced by your employer. If you don’t, you simply go into stasis. You’re woken roughly every ten years or so to see if you are ready to connect with the duty unit (workforce in your terminology) and be productive. If not; back to stasis. No big deal.
Another couple of side notes:
1. We find it extremely amusing that you refer to us as “Aliens” or “Grays”. We’re just the current step in the human evolutionary cycle.
2. We have achieved light speed and beyond and actually refer to it as “Warp” in deference to the late 20th century Star Trek. Someone along the way thought it would be quaint to call it that.
You might be interested to know that we don’t physically travel through space at those speeds. It’s more like we bring our destination to us at those speeds. But that, unfortunately, is way above your limited mental capacities to explain.
@C3PO Jetson… Whoa! Enough for me. I’m done.
@HG Wells,
I win!
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