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3D hologram you saw in "Star Wars" may soon become a reality, thanks to a new discovery by researchers at the University of Arizona.
The researchers have developed a holographic system that can send a series of 3D images near real time, a precursor of the holographic video conferencing, which ultimately interact with realistic images of friends who live all over the world.
The system incorporates a new photorefractive polymer can be loaded quickly holographic images and scalable production, with a single system for recording and transmission of 3D images of people and objects through Ethernet.Lead author Pierre-Alexandre Blanche and university colleagues and Nitto Denko Technical Corp.
Oceanside, California, describes the progress in the cover story of November 4, 2010, the journal Nature."This advance brings us a step towards the ultimate goal of a realistic holographic telepresence high-resolution, color, man-size, 3D images can be sent to the video refresh rate from one to another world," said co -author Nasser Peyghambarian and UA.
The researchers had previously shown that the polymer will update the display system, but can only be updated once every four images minutes.The the new system can update the images every two seconds, but still not ideal for viewing, there are over a hundred times faster.
In addition, there is a single laser system to write the images on the photorefractive polymer, researchers can show the visual refresh rate color.While current multi-color display is also slower than monochrome images, the development suggests a true 3D, multi-color feasible.The research can be described in a cover story Nov. 4, 2010, issue of Nature.
