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 Forget HD, 3D might be here soon |
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Oct 06, 2008 - 8:08 PM - by Legs
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Imagine the porn 
Picture this: you're sat down for the Football World Cup final, or a long-awaited sequel to the "Sex and the City" movie and you're watching all the action unfold in 3-D on your coffee table
It sounds a lot like a wacky dream, but don't be surprised if within our lifetime you find yourself discarding your plasma and LCD sets in exchange for a holographic 3-D television that can put Cristiano Ronaldo in your living room or bring you face-to-face with life-sized versions of your gaming heroes.
The reason for renewed optimism in three-dimensional technology is a breakthrough in rewritable and erasable holographic systems made earlier this year by researchers at the University of Arizona.
Dr Nasser Peyghambarian, chair of photonics and lasers at the university's Optical Sciences department, told CNN that scientists have broken a barrier by making the first updatable three-dimensional displays with memory.
"This is a prerequisite for any type of moving holographic technology. The way it works presently is not suitable for 3-D images," he said.
The breakthrough has made some long-time researchers of the technology believe that it could now come to fruition.
Tung H. Jeong, a retired physics professor at Lake Forest College outside Chicago who had studied holography since the 1960s told NJ.com; "When we start talking about erasable and rewritable holograms, we are moving toward the possibility of holographic TV ... It has now been shown that physically, it's possible."
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Oct 06, 2008 - 3:44 PM - by freemonkey
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Here at ff, I feel like the slow stepchild. But a few weeks ago I found a sort of social/answers website (like Yahoo but not as lame) with an active political section, and stuck around to help counter some basic misinformation. But sometimes its like spitting into a hurricane.
If you can bear it, read some of the astonishingly ignorant hate here.
Not everyone there is like this. There are some lovely, intelligent, patient people there. But the haters, ugh.
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