Forget saving for an iPhone, Technology Review reports researchers, led by V. Michael Bove Jr., director of the consumer electronics program, CELab at MIT, have completed a third generation holographic projector capable of creating an image about the size of a Rubik’s cube single C-cup breast.
The display runs from a standard graphics card eliminating the pricey custom hardware needed to produce a 3D capable signal in the past, and:
“Bove and his team currently have a fourth generation of system lined up, which will be able to display an image as large as a desktop PC monitor… the current display is only capable of monochromatic holograms, but the fourth generation will have a full range of colors, Bove says.”
“The display, the researchers say, will be small enough to add to an entertainment center, provide resolution as good as a standard analog television, and cost only a couple hundred dollars.”
Amazingly, Bove’s not sure of his display’s mainstream success and sees it as a medical imaging device (which it sort of will be). He thinks entertainment consumers won’t be impressed by a relatively small standard definition display in a world of high-definition flatscreens. Where was he in ‘96 when watching online porn videos meant deciphering watch-face sized frames delivered slower than surface mail via a flaky 28.8K modem? He’s going to put a couple of tiny people humping on my desktop? Where do I send the money?
Start buying holo-porn domain names immediately.