3D calls, they are close !!

This year 2017, holograms turn 70 years of age, his father Dennis Gabor in 1947, who worked on improving the resolution of electronic microscopes, asked the following question: "Why not take a bad electronic image , but that contains the 'total' information of the same, to reconstruct it and to correct it by optical methods? '.

Gabor and his invention.

Gabor then set about putting into practice his method which consisted of two steps: on the one hand, to fix in a concrete form the image of a figure on a photographic plate; and on the other hand, apply lighting to it after the revealing. The test turned out to be a failure in optimizing the images of the electron microscope, but gave rise to a technique to represent reality.
At that moment he decided to call his technique: holography, in honor to the Greek term "holos" that means "complete". Since then this technique was advancing, and with the arrival of computers its boom was greater.

The large and precise holograms are already a reality, which is a better test than the concerts of the digital singer "Miku" of the band vocaloids, however this requires a well equipped and extremely expensive stage.

Vocaloids concert.

There is also a more inexpensive way to experience the holograms in life, through a small reverse pyramid made of transparent material that can reflect the image and then placing it on a video, such as the one that will facilitate them at the foot of the publication, will appreciate something similar to a hologram (it's funny to see it, it exceeded the expectations of my friends and mine).

Holographic pyramid

So: how long before we can call a family member, friend, partner, etc., and feel like anakin skywalker talking to the teacher yoda? (or Senator Padmé, if you prefer).

According to official news, in 2013 the corporate vice president of skype announced that in the future (4 years later we still expect) had to develop the compatibility of the program for reading and projection of 3D images, however it is necessary for the user to have the possibility of the camera (or several) taking pictures from different angles. In addition this year (2017) a group of employees of the operator "Korea Telecom" have made the first 3D holographic video call under the 5G network, with colleagues from the US Verizon.

Here, the firt 5G videocall :O

These two firsts tell us that 3D calls will be possible in the near future, but you must have a very fast data rate and you must also have some view angles for the video. So guys and girls, my opinion is: Let's hope that the 5G signal gets marketed and we start saving to feel like a jedi.

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Here the video for the economic hologram: