Holographic technology is mature
Face-to-face communication even from thousands of miles away
In the past, if you want to cross the ocean to see you, it is necessary to spend a lot of time and space costs, today Canadian scientists and Microsoft cooperation, through technology to achieve a person-to-person "holographic transmission", even if the two people are separated by 10,000 miles, but also can instantly chat face to face.
Top black technology "holographic transmission"
"Holographic transmission" is a virtual reality technology, which can be resolved into a person or object "hologram", converted into a digital signal for remote communication, simply put, "holographic transmission" is to send Simply put, "holographic transmission" is to send 100% of your hologram to any location, and then through the naked eye 3 D equipment, you can achieve close communication, although you face the "hologram" is not a real person, in your eyes to see the same as the real person.
As long as you have 3 D equipment you can carry out two-way holographic chat, for example, the Canadian Science Laboratory has achieved the United States Alabama and Ontario, Canada interoperability, two places for "holographic transmission", not only can chat, but also shake hands and other simple interaction (currently " holographic teleportation" is not yet able to achieve a tactile experience), but visually you will feel an opposite is a real person.
"Holographic teleportation" from a technical point of view has been very mature, the next step of "holographic teleportation" is to let everyone feel the haptic experience, such as this experiment is used in the Microsoft mixed reality glasses Holocene, the reason why called mixed reality glasses, the future The mixed reality can let you have a tactile feeling.
The application of the "holographic teleportation" scenario
The "holographic transmission" technology chat is only the most basic function, the future of "holographic transmission" has many application scenarios, and the greatest imagination should be in the medical field, "holographic" This will provide a new idea for medicine. Imagine medical experts can conduct remote diagnosis through "holographic transmission", not only to understand the patient's situation the first time, but also the hologram will provide the most realistic data for medical experts.
As long as the distance and time constraints of the scene are very suitable for "holographic transmission", such as the Earth's space station, you know the space station will do a variety of scientific experiments, these experiments are generally completed by astronauts, but astronauts are not scientists, after all, through the "holographic transmission "scientists can personally carry out biological, agricultural, chemical and other multidisciplinary experiments, truly specialized in the field, greatly improving the efficiency of the experiment.
"The working principle of "holographic teleportation
Simply put, the working principle of "holographic teleportation" is to create a holographic 3 D image through virtual reality technology, and finally achieve the effect of "holographic teleportation", but want to maintain a stable "holographic teleportation "is very difficult because there are many technical problems, for example, the acquisition of holograms need high precision, large arithmetic, to restore the most realistic you, you need to collect a large number of facial features of the character.
The need to mobilize the arithmetic and data is astronomical, which requires the help of cloud computing, in addition, to restoring the most realistic hologram, you also need high-resolution display devices, here can be mixed reality glasses, but also high-precision naked eye 3 D, which will use high-precision sensors, depth-of-field sensors and a series of devices.
Google is also in the "holographic transmission" of research and development work, different from Microsoft's mixed reality glasses, Google main naked eye 3 D, then to create a sense of reality, you also need a light field display, so your glasses mistakenly think that the opposite is real.
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