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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2010-05-18

Light

As fundamental light is for the recording and the reconstruction of a hologram, as fundamental is the knowledge of what light is and the understanding of how it works. The coming posts are about:
Even these coming entries are not about phantasms, they would like to provide a service giving everyone an understanding of the properties of light, who isn't much into it or into physics and mathematics.

Here is a track called Lightwave by VNV Nation, going perfectly with the entries to come - by title and even musically.


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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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2010-04-15

Holography as phantasm story - A parallax view

With the M.A. thesis entitling Holography as phantasm story - A parallax view, the concern of this survey is sharpened.

The purpose of this work is telling a story of phantasms emerging from holography.

Holography at first fails in its originally assigned field of application - improving electron microscopy. Except some military usage in its early days, which take place far off and shielded from public perception, the physical concept becomes a marginal phenomenon. For about fifteen years attention is refused to holography, for which other media don't have to struggle for. The invention of laser light induces the rebirth of holography. It converts holography's dried up fields of application into fertile soil, whom arises an unforeseen and unimaginable variety of hopes, dreams, wishes and longings, and pushes open gates to visions and phantasms.

Holography as phantasm story - A parallax view is about these phantasms. It would like to tell about the visions of holographic memory, of tangibility and the yearning to feel, of measuring without destroying, of brand protection, and the boundless confidence in holography's capabilities to explain the mechanics of nothing less than the human brain and the whole universe.

Telling this story, this work takes holography as a paragon and mimics one of its main features - the parallax view. Viewing the object of study from different angles - from holography's different fields of applications and phantasms - this work itself becomes an into writ getting hologram.


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