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Our Blogs The BeerFiles Telstra: may the holographic force be with you! | Telstra: may the holographic force be with you! |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 27 May 2008 | |
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With the advent of increasingly higher bandwidth connections, video conferencing has taken large steps forward in recent years. Sophisticated systems, such as HP Halo, take great pains to create an illusion, using multiple cameras, props and high bandwidth communications, to make it appear that all parties are sitting in the same room around a conference table. Despite this, the illusion is far from perfect. However, the use of holographic images, as displayed by Telstra goes a step further. It demonstrates the feasibility of putting lifelike holographic images of a people in actual chairs at an actual conference table and simultaneously putting holographic images in chairs at a similar conference table at other locations. For all intents and purposes, the same meeting could be held at multiple locations, with each person interacting with 3-D holographic likenesses of the other persons at the meeting as though they were real. CONTINUED |
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