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Telstra: may the holographic force be with you! E-mail
by Stan Beer   
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
As David Thodey, Telstra group managing director for enterprise and government, pointed out to meeting, the technology to accomplish true holographic conferencing. ala Star Wars, exists right now. After all he did perform a mock handshake on stage with the holographic likeness of Dr Bradlow. However, there is one essential missing ingredient - and it's a big one - bandwidth.

With the current state of broadband worldwide barely able to support the Internet traffic we already have - even VoIP calls can sometimes be patchy - the cost of tranporting Gigabytes of high definition holographic 3-D images in real time is currently prohibitive.

Telstra assures us, however, that in say five or so years hologram to hologram communications may be an affordable reality. In Australia's case, as always, it will depend on who owns the pipes

For more information on the technology behind the Telstra holographic demonstration visit here.
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