Holography is considered as one of the most remarkable discoveries in modern times. Nevertheless for its first decades it seems to be getting forgotten.

Originally stepped up back at the end of the 1940s to improve electron microscopy, it can not fulfill this function and the wish of its discoverer hungarian-british physicist Dennis Gábor. Due to sources of pure coherent light, which are indispensable for optical holography, being not yet available, not even Gábor himself can locate a field of application for this phenomenon. He can neither recognize at that point of time the meaning and the potential of his discovery and with it the influence this new medium would have on our daily lives one day. Nor can he imagine the plenty of phantasms emerging from this phenomenen. Phantasms, which seem to be mostly one step ahead of applied holography.

With the discovery of laser light at the beginning of the 1960s, for the first time ever it becomes possible to record and reconstruct a real three-dimensional image of an object. What once simply starts as a little rainbow coloured picture of a toy train, today finds its applications in a vast variety of different optical and acoustical fields.

It is as remarkable as the phenomenon of holography itself, that it could never prevail as a popular medium like movie, TV, radio, the internet, print media, etc. Especially when keeping in mind all the phantasmatic stories which emerge from this medium. A lot of dreams, hopes and promises that holography never made by itself, but some of them is trying to keep.

blog.holographie.eu accompanies my scientific work on holography, which would like to give holography an attention, that elsewhere is mostly refused to it. It is of course initially interested in based techniques and technologies of holography and how it works. Moreover it is also interested in these upcoming phantasms and their stories arising from possible abilities of holography. Especially against the backdrop of holography seems to be reaching a point, where its possibilities and abilities catch phantasms.

This blog would like to serve as a sketch book for unprotected ideas, of which some maybe become expanded, while others are not haunted any further, but wants to be told and should not be unmentioned forgotten.


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2010-05-15

Project Natal

Johnny Chung Lee is currently working with Microsoft on Project Natal - a new technology of game controlling without a gamepad. It's a continuation and advancement of Lee's work on the Wii Remote hand tracking system.

It works quite in the same way as his Wii Remote project does. With one significant difference. The video game is just controlled by hands, feet, head and voice without any other kind of device, except a sensor, which is placed near the TV.


The sensor is able to recognize moves of several people in front of the TV. Besides a number of built-in microphones - to ensure communication by voice from any point in the room with the console - it has got two attached cameras. An ordinary Red-Blue-Green colour camera, and 3D camera, which allows to locate the user's position an recognize his moves.



Project Natal Xbox 360 announcement

The new device is expected to be available by autumn/winter 2010 under a name that is not know yet.

In June 2009 Shinoda Lab presents on SIGGRAPH Touchable Holography using Johnny Lee's Wii Remote hand tracking system. Next SIGGRAPH conferences are going to take place in Los Angeles, 25-29 July and Seoul, 15-18 December. Right now there are no announcements, that Shinoda Lab is going to present a further developed version of its Touchable Holography.
Nevertheless it would be very interesting to see, what it would look like.


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