A research team at the BBC has been
working on an incredible new ‘holographic TV’ – and they have already produced
some stunning results. The experiment brief was to invent a device using low-fi
and low-cost materials that could be used to completely change our way of
viewing the small screen. The team admitted that they had seen the phenomenon
of a holographic image created by people using their mobile phones, but they
wanted to extend the scale and go one step bigger. People had created small ‘holographic’
displays using mobile phones and so it occurred to researchers making a super
siz
ed version of these low-cost displays would give them a way to see how ‘holograms’
might work on a larger scale, something comparable to the size of a living room
TV, they took a 46” TV that they had in their office and then asked a local
plastics cutter to make a simple acrylic pyramid shape based on some sketches
that they had done. By placing this acrylic pyramid on their flat screen TV,
they were able to try out a modern-day version of an Old Victorian Theater
technique and created the illusion of floating ‘holographic’ like images. The team
then used archive footage from the BBC to view images in stunning 3D. However, don’t
expect to see a holographic TV in the shops any time soon.
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