Holography, a three-dimensional technique, is making a comeback. Invented by Dennis Gabor in the 1940s, holograms have joined forces with deep learning to enrich the virtual world experience.
Although originally designed for displaying imagery with great detail, today, the world has seen 8K footage, meaning for holograms to be high quality, most data points must be transferred at high speeds.
Since holographic technology is always advancing, this incredible technique is already making a difference for a range of industries; especially for big brands including Facebook and Sony, who are paying attention and investing heavily in their own VR products.
The world has adapted quickly to group video calls and meetings as opposed to personal, face-to-face meetings and events. Stepping into the next level with immersive VR technology, virtual reality meetings and conferences allows for team’s levels of engagement and collaboration to increase.
Many technologies enabling collaboration across distant currently exist, but Microsoft Ignite has unveiled a new hologram-based mixed-reality communication platform known as Microsoft Mesh.
Allowing people in various physical locations to join a shared environment, this 3D capturing technology creates a hologram of each person therein (a process Microsoft insists on calling ‘holoprotation’), all running atop the company’s cloud platform Azure.
This newly developed technology allows for you to appear as yourself, or as a customised avatar, creating a physical aspect to which it feels like the actual presence of another human being is within your proximity, meaning that the we will have ability for almost face-to-face meetings in the same room on opposite sides of the planet without the need for travel. The ramifications of this tech on the business sector in the future could be revolutionary and definitely deserve to be followed closely.
