3D projection
6 Oct
I did some searching and rethinking after the post in which I mentioned holographic cameras and it seems that the precursor to that will be something along the lines of the illusion of 3D projection through the use of multiple projectors. I guess the two technologies are qualitatively different, but 3D projection seems to be moving faster than truly holographic images at this point.
For example, the video above is a 3D video projected onto the facade of a gridlike modernist building to great effect by Urbanscreen (a collective? I can’t read their German site…). I wish I could’ve seen this in person. It’s impossible to gauge how real-looking the effect was from a 2D video, but holographic projection is apparently already developed enough that there’s a word for holographic interactive environments: tele-immersion. Sounds kinda cheesy, but shoot, what we’re doing with 3D scanning and printing, and pico projectors makes this seem inevitable. It’s the poor man’s teletransportation!
A few months ago, I listened to a couple of TED talks on the internet being one giant inventory of everything and thought it was incorrect, but you know, when I think about it, we really are trying to upload things to the net, trying to find the best way to organize them for retrieval by others. Right now we only have a grasp on the audio, textual and visual but it’s not too far fetched to think that at some point we might really be able to print 3D objects with ease – we really are working slowly toward teletransportation in a way, aren’t we?
