HoloCube desktop holograph projector delivers ads
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Star Wars and Star Trek fans alike have been waiting for the moment when they could finally have a 3-dimensional image being projected on their desk. It’s now possible thanks to a device called “HoloCube” but its first application can be called questionable.
The device is 20-inches square and has a 40GB hard drive which can store almost 20 hours of compressed video. As for resolution, look forward to 1080i quality, how that translates in the 3D world is unknown.
Now to the point. The sole purpose of the HoloCube is to deliver 3-dimensional ads to whoever is… to whoever buys it. Yes, you actually have to buy it.
It appears as though it’s not directed at the consumer but rather companies wishing to set up HoloCube displays. Such a waste. Why couldn’t they have made the first 3-dimensional home gaming console? That wouldn’t be the first lost opportunity in history.
Advertising? Advertising? I’m sure there are other more useful applications for it. Well, it’s a start, it’s a hologram and that makes it cool (even if its use is currently “evil”).
What better way to push product. HoloCube makes money from selling the device and also gets paid by companies wishing to advertise using it.
You have your choice of color so long as it is black or white.
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February 6th, 2008
I don’t know if you can see it, but it is not really a 3D Hologram Volumetric Display. It is more of a 3D video projected onto a slanted piece of glass. if you look carefully you will see that it just looks that way because of the video. if you moved the camera with a still image projected on the piece of glass it would stand still. It is totally unlike anything from star wars. only if it was 3D Volumetric Display, then could we say, wow a star wars hologram, thingy!!!
February 7th, 2008
I think the effect is still surprising. I would love to see it in real.
November 6th, 2008
it only looks that way in the picture. Im pretty sure pictures can’t capture what it looks like in real life. If they say its a 3d projector than im pretty sure its really a 3d projector. The picture doesnt capture it the way it is.