Researchers at MIT present a new system capturing images and sending them over internet to a holographic display at around 15 frames per second-- using a Kinect camera and standard computer equipment, providing a glimpse at holographic displays' new potential.
The team are also confident they'll be able to boost the frame rate to feature film frame rates (24 fps) if not TV (30fps).
The MIT team's setup consists of a Kinect camera feeding data to an ordinary laptop. The laptop relays the data in real-time to a PC over the internet-- a PC with x3 commercial GPUs computing the diffraction patterns building up the hologram. The only non-off the shelf component is, of course, the holographic display itself, an experimental system designed at MIT itself.
However the researchers are also working on a successor to the holographic display-- one that's potentially comercial, smaller, cheaper to manufacture and producing larger images.
A glimpse into a future after 3DTV? Perhaps. Texan display product company Zebra Imaging already shows interest in the technology, saying that "it’s a hop, skip and a jump away from reality."
