<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nHolographic technology \u201cworks like a magic window, where users can talk, gesture and make eye contact with another person, life-size and in three dimensions,\u201d says Andrew Nartker, director of product management at Google, whose Project Starline aims to create 3D projections that give workers to appearance of speaking to each other across a window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Star Wars<\/em> aficionados may have been introduced to holograms with Princess Leia\u2019s distress call in the movie franchise\u2019s first installment in 1977. An ABBA \u201creunion\u201d in 2022 featured the band\u2019s members projected as holograms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n(Certain other concert projections of music legends reflected 2D images off a semi-transparent surface in an effect known as Pepper\u2019s Ghost. Lacking depth and volume, they weren\u2019t true holograms, contrary to popular belief.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Expanding business applications<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAnd now, this technology is providing new resources for the business world. For example, holograms can give retail shoppers 360-degree views of items. Models created with holograms help military decision-making by offering detailed visual assessments of landforms, assets and personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Healthcare providers can use holograms to obtain three-dimensional visualization of organs to make diagnoses, determine treatments and prepare for operations. Educators can incorporate 3D visuals that help students comprehend challenging concepts. In 2018, Imperial College Business School in London presented the world\u2019s first live lecture using holograms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Potential as a workplace collaboration tool<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nUsing holographs also holds potential to enhance corporate team collaboration. Over the past few years, Cisco, Google and Microsoft, along with some startups, have been testing solutions that use holograms or virtual projections. Microsoft Mesh, for example, is designed to allow people in different locations to join collaborative and shared holographic experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou can actually feel like you\u2019re in the same place with someone sharing content or you can teleport from different mixed reality devices and be present with people even when you\u2019re not physically together,\u201d says Alex Kipman, a Microsoft technical fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Holographic displays can also \u201cbe used to create more engaging and dynamic presentations for sales pitches, product demonstrations, marketing packing and other various business applications,\u201d according to London-based K2 Space, an officer designer and builder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Workplace consultants, fit-out experts and designers could use holographic projections to create virtual models of buildings and spaces, allowing clients to experience and provide feedback on their designs before they are built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And with many companies moving to hybrid working, holographic displays could also be used to create more immersive and engaging virtual meeting and training spaces. Remote workers could collaborate in real-time as if they were in the same room, with all of their facial expressions and body movements being captured along with their voices and images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, holograms aren\u2019t quite ready for prime time in the workplace. The real-time projections require specialized hardware setups plus significant bandwidth signal and data compression that can\u2019t easily be produced for the mass market. But if holography\u2019s potential is eventually realized, \u201cwithin years, not decades, the videoconferencing we used during the pandemic will look so old to us. Online meetings will feel more personal \u2014 in some cases, amazingly more realistic,\u201d says Wayne Kurtzman, a vice president for Needham, Mass.-based International Data Corporation, which serves the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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